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Richard Benyo

63 articles — Editor of Marathon & Beyond from its founding in 1997 to its final issue in 2015. Wrote the magazine's editorial in nearly every issue, plus features, race profiles, and book reviews. Author of "Running Past 50", "Making the Marathon Your Event", and ten other books.

M&B Vol. 9, No. 3 · 2005 One for All, and All for One May/June 2005 On the Road 13 Volume 9, Number 3 With Joe Henderson Travel with Joe as he shares his view from inside the world ST… Richard Benyo · 14 min read · 2001 Book ‘Em, Dick-O When I was a kid, summer was a planet unto itself, stretching in all directions beyond the horizons, bounded by nothing but sunshine, green grass, stray… Richard Benyo · 9 min read M&B · 2001 Editorial: July/August 2001 July/August 2001 Volume 5, Number 4 Editor: Richard Benyo Publisher: Jan Colarusso Seeley Copyediting: John Wentworth Proofreading: Erin Cler Interior Design & Layout: Judy Henderson Advertising:… Richard Benyo · 1 min read M&B · 2000 Editorial: January/February 2000 Why Wait for Your Second Wind? You train your other muscles, why not your lung muscles? PowerLung is designed to do just that. It can increase… Richard Benyo · 9 min read M&B Vol. 6, No. 4 · 2002 Editorial THE GOOD WORD In an era when more and more people get their information from the electronic media, marathoners and ultrarunners are among the few people… Richard Benyo · 5 min read M&B · 2002 Editorial: May/June 2002 On THE Road WITH Ellen McCurtin SEE JULIA RUN Julia Kirtland won the women’s national marathon championship in February 1997 when she was 31 years old.… Richard Benyo · 4 min read M&B · 2000 Editorial: September/October 2000 […] the beauty of the sport. You can typically find a marathon to run that’s within easy driving distance of the front door. And you can… Richard Benyo · 3 min read M&B · 2002 Editorial WAY DOWN UNDER Well, there goes the neighborhood. For decades we've rhapsodized about how running is the most elemental but varied of all sports. On the… Richard Benyo · 3 min read M&B Vol. 3, No. 6 · 1999 Editorial: The Adventure Gene THE ADVENTURE GENE The problem with editing a magazine as opposed to a more instantaneous media is the built-in lag time (known in the trade as… Richard Benyo · 4 min read M&B · 1999 Editorial: September/October 1999 […] ers such as Arthur Lydiard, Hal Higdon, Joe Henderson, Bob Glover, and others; and the increasing number of certified coaches being turned out by groups… Richard Benyo · 2 min read M&B · 2001 Editorial: Trying Harder TRYING HARDER The death of Emil Zatopek last November continues to exert a profound effect. A few nights ago I once again watched Volume VII (the… Richard Benyo · 5 min read M&B · 1997 Editorial: July/August 1997 (p. 1) […] night before the race, and it was raining. It was still raining at 3:30 a.m. Not wanting to run in the rain, he checked out… Richard Benyo · 3 min read Vol. 19, No. 2 · 2015 The Death Valley 300 The 1987 United States versus United Kingdom race nudged the course to a new level. Part 2. by Richard Benyo Chapter 2: The Long & Winding… Richard Benyo · 34 min read Vol. 19, No. 1 · 2015 The Death Valley 300 The hottest place on Earth and the highest peak in the Lower 48 within the same California county. What connects them? Summer running. Part 1. by… Richard Benyo · 46 min read Vol. 17, No. 2 · 2013 Editorial: Vol. 17, No. 2 (2013) 2012 Because magazines like this have long “lead times,” I’m writing this editorial for the March/April issue four days before the world comes to an end,… Richard Benyo · 9 min read Vol. 17, No. 1 · 2013 The Rise Of Aims Most forms of sport are contested in a tightly controlled field of play: soccer, football, tennis, wrestling, track and field, basketball. Baseball is a hybrid: a… Richard Benyo · 9 min read Vol. 16, No. 6 · 2012 In Emil’s Footprints On July 27, 1952, in Helsinki, Czech distance runner Emil Zátopek ran his first marathon. And for some 60 years, that marathon has arguably been one… Richard Benyo · 33 min read Vol. 15, No. 6 · 2011 The Way We Were We recently had the opportunity to go sailing on San Francisco and San Pablo Bays with some friends. Their 17-year-old son came along. At one point,… Richard Benyo · 8 min read Vol. 15, No. 5 · 2011 Editorial: Vol. 15, No. 5 (2011) Barefoot Boy, With Cheek of Tan Lately, the hysteria surrounding running barefoot has been reaching decibels usually associated with a Shuttle launch. Everywhere we turn there… Richard Benyo · 7 min read Vol. 15, No. 2 · 2011 Editorial: Vol. 15, No. 2 (2011) Easy to Be Hard Attending any sort of running conference is a virtual ride in the Mad Hatter’s Tea Cups at Disney World: lots of whirling… Richard Benyo · 6 min read M&B Vol. 12, No. 6 · 2008 Editorial: November/December 2008 Hate/Blood Toni Reavis’s story “Hate Runs” is likely to receive one of those love-itor-hate-it responses from readers. It is a curious piece of work that will… Richard Benyo · 9 min read M&B Vol. 12, No. 5 · 2008 Editorial: Vol. 12, No. 5 (2008) Clutter “I don’t think I’ll be able to run without my iPod.” Elizabeth Yoke, quoted in the Cincinnati Enquirer, May 3, 2008, the day before the… Richard Benyo · 15 min read Vol. 12, No. 4 · 2008 Editorial: Vol. 12, No. 4 (2008) Making the Rounds On March 2, the 30th annual Kaiser Permanente Napa Valley Marathon was held under what can be described only as ideal conditions: cool… Richard Benyo · 15 min read Vol. 12, No. 3 · 2008 Editorial: Vol. 12, No. 3 (2008) When More Is Actually More A theory in long-distance running that was popular in the 1970s has reemerged as a mantra of successful world-class runners today:… Richard Benyo · 12 min read
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