2011 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, notes...by Larry Eder

5:25: And the crowd showed up, nearly 4,000 fans showed up in the SRO stands at the Reggie Lewis Center. Three plus hours of great track & field await on this rainy evening in Boston!

4:55 PM: This is the pole vault runway, from just about where AR holder Jenn Suhr will begin her run up. Coach of Jenn Suhr, also her husband, is taping her poles, as they get ready for some good vaulting at the Reggie Lewis Center. Jenn is the indoor and outdoor AR, and only the second women to clear sixteen feet in the pole vault!

4:45 PM: Fans are just starting to come in. This is a picture of the starting blocks for the 60 meters. The camera boom allows the TV crew to see everything. They actually pick and choose all of the shots you see, so you are watching a meet from their perspective!

Your writer with a piece of machinery, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix 2011

4:30 PM: Welcome to the 2011 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix. It is about thirty minutes before the first race and it should be a fun three hours. We will twitter out the events, each one as they go and follow up with reviews of the events tonight and tomorrow! Enjoy the meet and remember to watch the meet on ESPN2 at 2 pm ESt tomorrow before that football game!

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Larry Eder
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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