About THE Authors

PAULREESE first took up distance running at age 47 in 1964 and has been active in all facets of the sport, including as a competitor, race director, and writer. As a competitor, he has held masters records in age divisions 50 through 80 at distances from 5,000 meters to 100 miles. He has completed over 200 marathons (at which point he stopped counting) and has directed at least one race every year since 1965. He has written three books (Ten Million Steps, Go East Old Man, and The Old Man and the Road) detailing his adventures running across the United States. Paul is the oldest person to run across the country and the only person to run across all 50 states.

ANDY YELENAK, who created the original artwork gracing this issue’s cover, has been arunner since 1974 and a freelance illustrator since 1981. In 1994 he decided to paint what he loved and create artwork with running as the subject. Fascinated and inspired by running history, Andy has tried to capture some of the sport’s wonderful moments with his work. Andy’s limited edition lithograph, “Billy’s Breakthrough,” adorned our July/August cover and commemorates Bill Rodgers’s first marathon victory at Boston in 1975. Andy’s paintings have been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators in New York and at the Beckett Sports Art Gallery in Dallas.

TIM MARTIN isa past president of Six Rivers Running Club in northern California. Tim and his wife Linda have two children, Emily and Tyler. Tim’s first book, There’s Nothing Funny About Running, came out in the fall of 1999.

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JOHN VONHOF works as an emergency room and trauma technician and is the author of the book Fixing Your Feet: Preventive Maintenance and Treatments for Foot Problems of Runners, Hikers, and Adventure Racers. As a freelance writer, John has written for many publications and has several books to his credit. His running background includes the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run, the Gibson Ranch 72-Hour Run, and several 12- and 24-hour track runs. He is the race director of the Ohlone Wilderness 50K Trail Run. He lives in Fremont, California, and plans to run his first adventure race this summer.

RON WAYNE lives in Alameda, California, and has worked for Mizuno USA for 18 years in sales and promotions. Ranked as one of the top marathoners in the world in the 1970s, some of Ron’s achievements include the 1974 National Marathon Champion of the United States, runner-up in the Honolulu Marathon, and fourth place in the 1977 Boston Marathon. He was the first runner in the world to run five sub-2:20s in the same calendar year. In 1977, Track and Field News ranked Ron one of the top 10 road racers in the United States. Ron’s hobby is collecting sports memorabilia—he has every Red Sox Topps baseball card from 1952 to present!

GUY AVERY is the founder and former publisher/editor of Peak Running Performance, the world’s largest scientific-based newsletter for improving the distance running performance of serious runners. A former NCAA Division I runner at Siena College, Avery was a member of their three-time New York State Cross-Country Champion team. He has coached high school state champions as well as JUCO, NAIA, and NCAA All-Americans. Voted Regional Coach of the Year by his coaching peers every year he’s coached at the collegiate level, Guy’s claim to fame is that every runner he has ever coached has improved significantly. He is currently completing a new workbook on marathon training. He writes, coaches, and lives in San Diego.

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PETER LOVESEY began his writing career with the publication of Wobble to Death in 1970, introducing Sergeant Cribb, who went on to be featured in seven more books and two television series. His recent novels have alternated between two contrasting detectives: Peter Diamond and the Victorian sleuth, Bertie. His new novel, The Vault, was published by Mysterious Press last year; the book takes his fans on a fictional investigation into the papers of Mary Shelley. Lovesey’s work has garnered awards around the world, including the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the United States, France’s Grand Prix de Literature Policiere, and the prestigious Gold and Silver Dagger Awards of the British Crime Writers Association. After a career in teaching, Peter became a full-time author in 1975 and now lives near Bath, England.

JIM WHITING began running 40 years ago when a friend suggested an impromptu track meet. At that time one of the slowest kids in his age group, Whiting tried to beg off. But when he smoked his faster friend in the 440, he discovered a theretofore unsuspected

talent for running longer distances—until recently, I however, it was not enough talent to complete a marathon. His streak of marathon futility ended when he completed the 1998 Athens Marathon, happily entering the stadium built for the modern revival of the Olympics. Jim is a freelance writer.

DAVID KROMER is a runner with more than 35 years of experience in the running game. Those first few strides he took as a 12-year-old in junior high school gym class ignited his lifetime passion for the , bs sport. During his college years, Dave got a large dose

att of inspiration from his coach, Bob Sevene. He has pi enjoyed a long association with the Bill Rodgers Run-

ning Center, going all the way back to those exciting days of the running boom in the late 70s. Dave’s favorite memory is the 2:38 he ran as a masters runner in the Vermont City Marathon. He lives in Melrose, Massachusetts.

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JONATHAN BEVERLY, M&B’s “foreign correspondent,” currently lives in Brussels where he runs, writes, studies French, and manages communications for an international university consortium. He credits his high school cross-country coach and French teacher Anne Norton of Buckport, Maine, for starting him on the path which, through many long and unexpected byways, eventually led him there. Jonathan will be running other European marathons for M&B during the coming year.

MARION RAYCHEBA is a Toronto-based writer who has run 14 marathons (as well as one 50K) in Canada, the United States, and Europe, as well as countless shorter races. She especially enjoys reporting on the marathon experience from up close and personal. Marion is still coddling herself with easy 10Ks while waiting for the marathon desire switch in her brain to reactivate.

March/April Marathon & Beyond

Here are just some of the features you can expect in the March/April 2000 issue:

* Secrets to Boston Marathon Recuperation

¢ Behind the Scenes of the U.S. Women’s 100K Team ¢ The Underground Marathon Breached

¢ Mongolia’s First Ultramarathon Runs Wild

e Warrior Tactics for the Long-Distance Runner

¢ The Marathon: Facts, Fantasies, and Foibles

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Marathoners, ultramarathoners, and those who want to become marathoners or ultramarathoners will enjoy the presentation of the important and useful information contained in each issue.

Note to Potential Contributors

Writers and photographers are invited to submit material to Marathon & Beyond by sending it to Richard Benyo, Marathon & Beyond, P.O. Box 161, Forestville, CA 95436, USA. Material unaccompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope will not be reviewed. All due care is taken with unsolicited submissions, but the publication accepts no responsibility for such submissions. Telephone queries are not considered. Marathon & Beyond does not publish reviews of running shoes, apparel, or equipment, nor does it carry race reports or schedules of upcoming races.

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Ellen Coleman, MA, MPH, RD California Angels Sport Clinic

Perry H. Julien, DPM Atlanta Foot and Ankle Center

Michael Lambert, PhD Sports Science Institute of South Africa

David E. Martin, PhD Georgia State University

Russell Robert Pate, PhD University of South Carolina

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Michael Leo Sachs, PhD Temple University

Keith Williams, PhD University of California, Davis

Melvin H. Williams, PhD Old Dominion University

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