Coffee with Larry, episode 757, June 24,2025
This is Coffee with Larry, a virtually every day podcast, now in episdoe 757.
We talk about lots of the every day points in our sport. The podcast is hosted by
Larry Eder, editor/writer, co-founder at RunBlogRun.com.
All opinions are mine. If you don’t like them, if you don’t like my politics, then, don’t
watch or pay attention. It is your proper on this nation, effectively, a minimum of at present.
Topics:
Grand Slam Track, find out how to handle expectations.
1. Kingston was prime instance of points that GST crew had: lack of appreciation of Kingston, its tradition and the calendar.
Kingston, Jamaica
April 6, 2025, picture by Kevin Morris
2. Miramar, smaller web site, simpler to handle, many good tales got here out. Bednarek, Jefferson-Wooden, Kerr and as at all times,
Sydney McLaughlin.
Miramar, Florida, USA
May 2-4, 2025, picture by Kevin Morris
3. Philly, reduce to 2 days, reduce distance part to at least one race and $50k, managed crowd, and TV gave the impression to be working.
4. LA cancelled, 10,000 tickets already bought, cancelation stunned some, query is whether or not Grand Slam Track can come again.
5. Managed cancellation with optimistic press releases, however till new sponsors come on, till TV deal is completed, GST is up in air.
Steve Miller, coach, sports activities advertising and marketing guru, creator, ideas on a person who impressed many
6. Coach at Bloom Township High School, 1965-1976, Cal Poly SLO, 1976-81, six years at Ok-State, the place his
tenure was described as “transformational”, in resurrecting soccer and sports activities applications.
7. Miller’s athletes thought of him inspirational.
8. I met Steve Miller in 1980 at Martin Luther King Games at Stanford, the place he saved Mike Tomesello from pulling me off monitor
with lap to go in 10,000m, by telling Tomesello off coloration joke. I realized what occurred twenty years later, at all times greatful to
Coach Miller for with the ability to end first 10,000m on monitor ( I imagine I did 24 races of 10,000m on monitor over years).
9. Steve Miller, with assist of Keith Peters and Marc Bloom, introduced NIKE athletes at Goteborgy 1995 in greatest PR by NIKE
ever. Daily briefings, every day interviews, content material and meals for media. Steve Miller was at his easiest: telling nice tales.
10. We will preserve Steve Miller in our hearts and minds, and are considering of his associates, household and athletes.
11. Keep John Capriotti and his household in your ideas and prayers, his father, all of 96, handed final week. He had
run in first Illinois cross nation highschool champs, putting sixteenth.
