Tirunesh Dibaba Interviewed Following Her Great Run Manchester Victory

The Great Run 10k was held in Manchester, England on May 22. I was lucky enough to attend, thanks to the Great Run Company’s Tom Broadbent.

The race was the first from Tirunesh Dibaba since her last run there in 2014, and the birth of her baby.

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Her win there gave Tirunesh a good indication of her fitness. In the interview, Tirunesh Dibaba, through a translator, told me that she was looking to run a 10,000m soon to show the Ethiopian selectors her fitness level.

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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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