This is our final Conversations with Larry for the 2023 Boston Marathon.
I visited the Boston Marathon in 1986 for the very first time and ran the race that year, running 3:23.
Since then, I have covered the race and visited the marathon yearly until 2017.
Since 2018, due to health, and the Pandemic, I was unable to visit Boston but covered the event remotely.
The Boston Marathon, now in its 127th year, is the most historic marathon in our sport. 30,000 athletes will
be running the course on Monday, April 17, 2023, with a half million plus fans cheering the marathoners on,
from Hopkinton to Boylston Street.
In this Conversations with Larry, I speak about why you should enjoy the Boston Marathon.
Larry Eder has had a 50-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.”
