CoffeewithLarry, Episode 803, October 21, 2025, Media challenges in the modern world, stories about the Chicago Marathon

#CoffeewithLarry, Episode 803, October 21, 2025, Media challenges in the modern world, stories about the Chicago Marathon

This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field!

Our topics:

1. A great set-up in Chicago, for media.

2. The challenge is that, around the marathon world, there is a lack of sports coverage in local newspapers.

3. In Chicago, it was RW, LetsRun, Race Results Weekly, RunBlogRun, Flotrack, Runnerspace, and Track & Field News.

4. How do we develop a new generation of media in sports?

5. Most popular on social media? Katie Moon and Femke Bol are very popular among our readers.

6. Connor Mantz delivered in Chicago, per media outlets, his phone is going crazy! Well done, Connor.

7. We are getting ready for New York next week!

8. I am looking forward to my first indoor meeting of the year, the NB Indoor Grand Prix, which will be held January 24, 2026. www.nbindoorgrandprix.com

9. In two weeks, we are off to the 2025 NYC Marathon. We will be working with a new partner, www.FurnishedQuarters.com, check out the banner ads on www.RunBlogRun.com and www.RunningNetwork.com (In NYC, 10/29 to 11/4).

10. NXN has regionals on November 9, November 14, and November 22, with finals on December 6, 2025!Check out www.NIKECrossNationals.com or https://nxn.runnerspace.com/ .

Here’s our first issue of the #TheJourneytoCompete, a NIKE XC newsletter from #NIKERunning and #RunBlogRun: https://runningnetwork.com/…/440-nike-xc-newsletter

11. Brooks XC Nationals, presented by #FleetFeet, has announced a streaming deal with #FloTrack, details coming. Regionals are November 29 and December 6, with Nationals on December 14! Remember, 20 athletes will get #GoldenTickets!https://www.fleetfeet.com/cross-country-championship !

12. #RunBlogRun will be working with Pace Events on their two events, #DubaiMarathon, to be held on February 1, 2026, www.dubaimarathon.org

13. The #RAKHalfMarathon will be held on February 14, 2026, www.RaKHalfMarathon.com

14. Here issue #2 of BrooksOnRunning Newsletter, This newsletter is dedicated to Coaches! It’s FREE!https://coachingathleticsq.com/brooks-on-running…/

See you later on #CoffeewithLarry

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America’s first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: “I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself.” Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, ” I’m no Angel.”

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