Coffee with Larry, February 15, 2025, Two weeks of exciting track & field, Grant Fisher, Cole Hocker, Georgia Bell, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Mondo Duplantis!

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

This is #CoffeewithLarry for February 15, 2025.

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Our topics:

1. Two weeks of incredible track & field, from #NewBalanceindoorgp (Feb. 2) to #INITKarsruhe (Feb. 7), then #MillroseGames (Feb. 8), to Meeting de Lieven (Feb.13), then #BUDavidHemeryValentinesDayMeeting (Feb 14) and #ISTAFBerlin (Feb. 14).

2. Grant Fisher’s Most Excellent Adventure. 3:33.91 PB at 1,500m (Feb. 2), to 7:22.91 (Feb. 8) to 12:44.09 (Feb.14). After 12 days of incredible racing, Grant Fisher is taking a break and then building to prepare for the #GrandSlamTrack. https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/02/grant-fisher-1244-09-wr-jimmy-gressier-1254-92-er-at-bu-valentines-day-meeting.html

3. Cole Hocker noted that he wanted to test his fitness at #MillroseGames. He did, as his 7:23.14 was under the current WR of Lamecha Girma. Where will he race next? Check out our story on Cole, https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/02/cole-hocker-does-not-like-to-lose.html

4. Katie Moon, the current WR at 4.82 meters in the women’s pole vault, talks tactics with Stuart Weir: https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/02/talking-pole-vault-tactics-with-katie-moon.html

5. Georgia Bell, the Wanamaker mile champion. Check out the story by Stuart Weir on the Olympic bronze medalist, https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/02/georgia-bell-wannamaker-mile-winner.html

6. Yared Nuguse won his third Wanamaker mile in a new WR of 3:46.63 (lasted five days) by Deji Ogeyingbo, https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/02/yared-nuguses-historic-run-a-night-to-remember.html

7. Jakob Ingebrigtsen set new WRs at indoor 1,500m (3:29.63) and indoor Mile (3:45.14); check out this story by Deji Ogeyingbo: https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/02/jakob-ingebrigtsen-reminds-the-world-who-runs-the-mile.html

8. Mondo Duplantis just opened his season with a 6.10-meter jump WL/EL at the #ISTAFBerlin, https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/02/duplantis-610-wl-karalis-594-nr.html

A busy few days.

See you on Monday for our next #CoffeewithLarry!

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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