Coffee with Larry, February 11, 2025, On the road for three weeks: RAK, New Balance Indoor and Millrose Games get 2025 off to great start!

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

This is #CoffeewithLarry for February 11, 2025.

Grant Fisher’s Blockbuster Performance: The Race That Changed Everything

This Day in Track & Field, February 4, James J. Connolly wins the first Wanamaker Mile (1926), Joette Clark-Diggs wins her seventh Millrose win (2000), by Walt Murphy

This Day in Track & Field, February 3, MSG crowd of 16,500 cheers Glenn Cunningham in his 2nd Wanamaker Mile win (1934), by Walt Murphy

Coffee and tea, Scottie’s Eat Mor, the iconic breakfast spot, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, May 2024

#CoffeewithLarry is sponsored by OMIUS, the cooling technology people. To learn more about the head band used by Sifan Hassan and Bashir Abdi, go to www.omius.io

Sifan Hassan won the Paris Olympic marathon, wearing the OMIUS head band, photo courtesy of OMIUS

#CoffeewithLarry is supported by #Dubai Marathon and #RAKHalfmarathon, managed by #PACEEvents.

#CoffeewithLarry and #RunBlogRun is supported by #GlobalAthletics&Marketing, producers and managers of the 2025 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston.

THE TRACK at New Balance was managed and produced by Beynon Sports Surfaces, one of the finest facility companies in the world, photo by NB Communications.

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This is the special make for Josh Kerr. This is the Brooks Hyperion Elite LD, from Brooks Running

Our topics today:

1. The #RAKHalfMarathon was a blast. I spent nearly a week in Ras Al Khaimah from January 27 to February 2. The race was cool and windy, with great races in both elite men and elite women. 10,000 runners competed, up 80 percent from last year!

Ejgayehu Taye leading the RAK Half, photo by Giancarlo Colombo for Ras AL Khaimah Half marathon

2. I flew all night, from #Dubai to #Newark, then, #Boston, for the #NewBalanceIndoorGrandPrix, held on February 2, 2025.

3. The #NBIGP was fantastic! The TRACK at New Balance hosted a tremendous 30th Boston Indoor Games! Great races from 60 meters to 3,000 meters. The meet ended with two Olympic 100m meter champions, Marcell Jacobs and Noah Lyles, and it lived up to expectations!

Andrew Coscoran , 3000m, New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
Track & Field meet
February 2, 2025
Boston, MA USA, photo by Kevin R. Morris

4. I wrote at the #LenoxHotel on Sunday night and Monday and headed home on Tuesday.

5. Out again Thursday for Interviews with #MIlloseGames athletes while they were working out. #JeffBenjamin covered the presser on Thursday, February 6, which we covered via social media. Fun interview with Aleia Hobbs:

6. The 117th Millrose Games, held at the NIKE armory, on a new track from MONDO, which replaced five layers of old track on the Millrose Games.

7. The 3000m World record by Grant Fisher and the One Mile WR by Yared Nuguse are tremendous stories. Amazed how little is out there on the amazing meet.

8. Meet director Ray Flynn noted to me, in a short interview that the 117th meet was the best! How does he make it bettter?

See you tomorrow at #CoffeewithLarry

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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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