Coffee With Larry October 21, 2024 Parker Valby Goes New Balance Many Thoughts on the Chicago Marathon Des & Kara Do a Great Chicago Podcast Pat Butcher’s Column on the Chicago Marathon

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This is Coffee with Larry on Monday, October 21, 2024.

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Our topics:

1. Watch the FootLocker XC ad. They are now posted on RunBlogRun.com.

2. Parker Valby just signed with New Balance. He moves to Boston to train with NB team coach Mark Coogan.

3.RW did this story on the signing of Parker Valby.
https://newbalance.newsmarket.com/…/285a2229-6e48-4999

4. Many Kenyans are deeply upset by the accusations against Ruth Chepnegetich. Someone asked me if Ruth wasn’t white.

5. The men’s race was won by John Korir, who led the pack of ten through the half in 1:02:19, breaking the field of 7 at 21 miles to win in a PB of 2:02:44. Here is my story. https://marathonhandbook.com/opinion-why-its-hard-to…/

6. John’s win was overshadowed by the paradigm-changing WR of Ruth Chepngetich, who became the first woman in 2:11 and 2:10, with a PB of 2:09;56, finishing 11th overall. Here is the story of Justin Lagat. https://marathonhandbook.com/opinion-why-its-hard-to…/

6. Ruth Czepngetic won by 7 1/2 minutes, beating the world record by nearly two minutes. Here is Deji Ogeyingbo’s story. https://www.runblogrun.com/…/gracious-and-brilliant

7. Here’s an Illustrated Athletics review on Ruth Chepngetic. https://athleticsillustrated.com/opinion-ruth…/

8. FootLocker regions are November 30 for the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast. Western Regional on December 7th and Nationals on December 14th, 2024. www.footlockerxc.com

9. 2024 Midwest FootLocker Regional Presented by HOKA November 30, 2024 Registration can be found here: https://footlockercc.com/midwest/

10. 2024 South FootLocker Regional presented by HOKA, November 30, 2024, registration can be found here: https://footlockercc.com/south/

11. 2024 NorthEast Footlocker Regional, presented by HOKA, November 30, 2204, registration can be found here: https://footlockercc.com/northeast/

12. 2024 West FootLocker Regional presented by HOKA, December 7, 2024, registration can be found here: https://footlockercc.com/west/

13. Amby Burfoot, former RW editor, 1968 Boston Marathon champion, and one of the most thoughtful and conscientious writers in our sport, wrote this article about Ruth Czepngetich’s concerns at the 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon WR Women’s WR- regarding posted on October 15, 2024). https://marathonhandbook.com/opinion-why-its-hard-to…/

14. RunBlogRun requested comment from both Athletics Integrity and the Bank of America Chicago Marathon regarding the drug testing protocols used with Ruth Chepngetich. We’ll turn to a few other experts to provide the full picture on the record. As a running journalism site, we need to look at both sides of any photo. The WR in Chicago was crazy as I called it, but to evaluate it we need to know if it is legal and questions about the amount of doping in Kenya are only natural.

15. Pat Butcher did an amazing column about Ruth Czepnegetich and her amazing race. https://thepatbutcher.wordpress.com/2024/10/19/enough-already/

16. Fantastic podcast from Des Linden and Kara Goucher, #NobodyAskedUS, Chicago Marathon, Recap, or Rampage. Episode 2.34. The podcast is well done, Cara and Des are great and give the viewer a great appreciation of the event through their eyes as, in one case, a former world class athlete (and World Champs medalist) and elite marathoner who won the Boston Marathon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWCB3DwXdjs

See you Tuesday for coffee with Larry.