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."
by Larry Eder
The idea of European Athletics and USATF, the Match is a new version of sports team battles. Take the finest from Europe and the USA and put them in a two day event, seen live in US via NBCN and NBC Gold plus social media by RunBlogRun. The event will take place on 9-10 September 2019 in Minsk, Belarus. Here’s the first of 3 podcasts from RunBlogRun and the Shoe Addicts on The Match. 
