Coffee with Larry is the almost daily podcast from RunBlogRun.
The podcast began in June 2022.
RunBlogRun began in 2006, and the RunningNetwork.com website began in 1995.
Our topics today:
1. Exciting early season meet at Mary Peters Track near Belfast, Ireland, The Belfast Classic, managed by Eamonn Christie, streaming by European Athletics. Here’s a short review plus the embed for Replay of the Belfast Classic!
The Belfast Classic, May 9, 2026, sponsored by Sports Shoes
2. What I liked about The Belfast Classic.
3. My interview with the founders of EastBay,Rick Gering and Art Jeudes.
4. Their new book, The Book of Eastbay, more can be learned more at bookofeastbay.com .
Book of EastBay cover
5. The running biz, then and now…
6. Jeff Benjamin wrote this review of Ray Brown’s new book, Insight 880:
See you tomorrow on Coffee with Larry !
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.
