Coffee with Larry, Grant Fisher leaves Bowerman Track Club, the Gjert Ingebrigtsen controversey, Boston quality is way up, NYCM Marathon just 2 weeks away!

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

This is Coffee with Larry for Friday, October 20, 2023.

Our topics:

1. The Brothers Ingebrigtsen explain why they left their father Gjert’s coaching group.
2. Jakob, Filip, and Henrik accuse their father, Gjert Ingebrigtsen, of violence and abuse.
3. Gjert Ingebrigtsen denies it and notes he is not the father of the year, but he did not use violence.
4. Huge controversy in Norway.
5. Grant Fisher, top American distance runner, leaves Bowerman Track Club.
6. Grant has not announced where he will go.
7. Boston marathon qualifying back up to high standards pre-COVID.
8. The NYC marathon will be exciting in 2023.
9. Chicago is still in everyone’s thoughts.
10. Eliud piece from Deji to post today.
11. Jeff Benjamin’s piece on Seb to post today.
See you Sunday; tomorrow, we are watching the Half Ironman in Wilmington, NC!
#CoffeewithLarry