This is my daily chat with #RunBlogRun viewers and track fans on all things track & field!
This is #CoffeeWithLarry, Episode786, for September 1, 2025.
Coffee with Larry is your kind of daily podcast on all things athletics and the strange parallel universes that live in the mind of Larry Eder, co-founder of #RunBlogRun, and co-founder of #AmericanAthletics (1989-1994), and #AmericanTrackandField (1994-2017).
#CoffeewithLarry was sponsored, July 2024-August 2025 by OMIUS, the cooling technology company. Special thanks to Jay Weber and Noah Droddy at OMIUS and please, if you need cooling tech for your teams, please go to www.omius.io
Special thanks to #Brooksrunning for their sponsorship of #AmericanAthletics (1990-1994), #AmericanTrackandField (1994-2017), and #RunBlogRun (2006-present) and #Runningnetwork (1990-present). Learn more at www.brooksrunning.com Note that #BrooksGhost17 is highly recommended by #RunBlogRun.
Our topics:
1. Excited to go to #Tokyo2025, special thanks to #NIKE for their support.
2. My first World Champs was in 1995, in #Goteoborg1995, only missed #Athens1997 since then.
3. Saw Jonathan Edwards break WR in TJ!
4. Witnessed Kim Batten and Tonja Buford-Bailey break WR in 400m hurdles.
5. Met Venuste Niyongabo, of Burundi at NIKE presser.
6. Remember Joe Vigil and Bob Larsen, coaches extraordinaire enjoying the Worlds!
7. Went to #Fiskerkrugen with James Dunaway, a life experience.
8. Watching a crack deal go down across from US Passport agency with my six year old son in 1995 in SFO.
9. SAS changing engines on plane in NYC as bar opened and I learned about gimlets with Normandy invasion veterans and their lovely wives.
10. Going to my first rave in Sweden.
11. The kindness of SDF and Swedish police during champs and reasons why.
12. Party for Wilson Kipketer by Danish governmanet after his WC win.
13. Watching King of Sweden walking down sidewalk, stopping to say hello, with a couple security guys.
14. The wonders of Sweden! I went back for nearly 20 straight years to meets.
Special thanks to #NIKErunning for supporting our coverage of the world champs in #Tokyo2025! Please go to www.nikerunning.com to learn more about #NIKE, and note that the #VomeroPlus, #Vomero18 and #PegasusPLUS are highly recommended by #RunBlogRun!
See you tomorrow on Coffee with Larry !