Coffee with Larry, October 11, 2025, Episode 797: The elite fields at The Bank of America Chicago Marathon are hot! – RunBlogRun

#Coffee with Larry, Saturday, October 11, 2025, Chicago Hilton Media room, Episode 797

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

#CoffeewithLarry is powered by #NIKERunning at the #BankofAmericaChicagoMarathon weekend

Our topics today:

1. RunBlogRun goes over the entire elite field for Men for 2025.

2. RunBlogRun goes over the entire elite field for Women in 2025.

3. RunBlogRun provides some trivia on the Bank of America Chicago Marathon history.

4. Emily Sisson runs 31:05!
Emily Sisson Sets Event Record and Wins the 2025 Boston 10K for Women https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/10/emily-sisson-sets-event-record-and-wins-the-2025-boston-10k-for-women.html , photos by Conventures, #Boston10kforWomen, #EmilySisson, #Conventures, #NewBalance,

Emily Sisson wins Boston 10k for Women, October 11, 2025, photo by Conventures

7. The Roads Not Taken, the Untold Story of Janet Bristol, one of America’s most promising distance runners, story by Rich Englehart, photos by Jeff Johnson https://www.runblogrun.com/2025/10/the-roads-not-taken-the-untold-story-of-janet-bristol-one-of-americas-most-promising-distance-runners-story-by-rich-englehart-photos-by-jeff-johnson.html , #janetbristol, #crosscountry, #jeffjohnson, #Richenglehart, #worldcrosscountry, #nikerunning,

Janet Bristol, photo by Jeff Johnson (circa 1970)

8. NIKE launches a newsletter on the joy of cross country! #TheJourneytoCompete, Issue 1, October 10, 2025: https://runningnetwork.com/index.php/news/440-nike-xc-newsletter-journey-to-compete-issue-1-october-10-2025

NXN 2021 poster, from Nike /Runnerspace

Steve Jones, Chicago Marathon 1985, photo from Bank of America Chicago Marathon

See you tomorrow on #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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