Convos with Larry: Talking Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships with Jeff Shaver

This is Conversations with Larry, our featured Interview is Jeff Shaver, long time observer of the sport, life-long runner and racer and satirist.

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Conversations with Larry

Talking Tokyo 2025 World Athletics Championships with Jeff Shaver

Jeff Shaver is a long-time friend, life long runner and keen observer of the sport. I have known Jeff for the

past 35 years.

Jeff Shaver hung with me in Beijing 2008, as he accompanied me as an unoffiicial assistant for the RunningNetwork in the Bejing Olympics.

Jeff and I spent some time chatting on the track & field events and coming up with predictions that are sure to annoy someone. Jeff Shaver is possessed of ascerbic wit, a keen intellect, and an attention to detail that keeps anything he says pretty amusing.

Charles Alexander, Jeff Shaver with Grant Fisher, in a selfie, 2024 Olympic Trials, from Charles Alexander collection

I recall that Jeff ran much of the Beijing marathon course. He was quite impressed with the late Sammy Wanjiru.

Jeff Shaver is a member of the HOKA Aggies. From 1990-1996, this writer held the watch and provided pithy comments for a group who met each Tuesday at Foothill Community College. I have to admit that it was one of my favorite times of my life.

Special thanks to Jeff Shaver!

Jeff Shaver had mentioned that he hoped that the women’s NCAA steeple champion medal in Zurich, that is Doris Lemngole. 

Please also check out our thoughts on Shelby Houlihan, Making Eugene Better, Options for Olympic Trials, What is your favorite event upcoming in Tokyo? and How to Juggle Marathon and Men’s 1,500 meters viewing! 

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Special thanks to Mike Deering, an original The Shoe Addicts, who does the editing and production for all RunBlogRun podcasts! 

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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