The 2019 Pre Classic will be held at Stanford University on 30 June 2019. This is an extraordinary year, as the meet, previously the Hayward Field since 1975, was moved for one year, due to the renovations or rebuilding of Hayward Field this year.
The Pre Classic gave American fans a chance to see top class global athletes in a setting like the meets in Scandanavia that many of us dreamed of attending.
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This year, the folks in Nike’s sports medicine deparment and Meet director Tom Jordan have been busy translating the Pre meet to the Stanford campus.
In this podcast, done in 2018, we speak of the importance of the Pre Meet!
The Bowerman Mile, photo by PhotoRun.net
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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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