Coffee with Larry, Dubai Marathon, RAK Half Marathon, World Indoors, World Cross Country, Diamond League,

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

This is #CoffeeWithLarry for Wednesday, December 20, 2023.

Our topics:

1. Lots of things going on in the sport at the end of the year!

2. Want to see the Dubai Marathon on a streaming video, please stay tuned to #RunBlogRun for updates on the January 7, 2024 broadcast (shown in the US on January 6!).

3. The USATF Indoor will be held Feb. 16-17, 2024, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for info: https://www.usatf.org/events/2024/2024-usatf-indoor-championships

Christian Coleman, 2022 USATF Indoors, The Podium, photo by Kevin Morris

4. The RAK Half Marathon, managed by Pace Events, will be held on February 24, 2024.

And they are off! RAK Half marathon, photo by RAK

5. More on the Seb Coe Presser from Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.

Seb Coe and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, photo by World Athletics

6. The World Indoors is in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 1-3, 2024. https://www.worldathletics.com

2019 European Indoors in Glasgow, photo by European Athletics

7. The World Cross Country is in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 30, 2024. https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-cross-country-championships/belgrade24/news/press-releases/2024-cross-country-championships-serbia

Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda winning the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia (photo by Clay Shaw for Race Results Weekly), used with permission

8. The Diamond League begins in China in April 2024. https://worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/calendar-results?season=2024

9. The 2024 season is going to be very busy!

Early track spike cobbled by Adi Dassler, circa 1924-1928, photo by adidas Communications

10. Missing friend Mike Fanelli today, here’s the wonderful obituary from Peter J. Thompson,

11. See you tomorrow on #CoffeeWithLarry

Larry Eder has had a 51-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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