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Richard Benyo

69 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.

· 1999 The Essential Encyclopedia of Marathoning Although marathoners like to trace their avocation and lifestyle back to the often misrepresented legend of Pheidippides, for all intents and purposes the marathon as we… Richard Benyo · 19 min read Vol. 4, No. 4 · 2000 Running’s Been Good I proceeded to train like a demon during the winter. Unfortunately, I got waylaid along the way. . . . In April, the Runner's World staff… Richard Benyo · 12 min read Vol. 1, No. 4 · 1997 Into the Valley of Death In 1913, Furnace Creek was merely a godforsaken ranch where its owners, Eagle Borax Company, attempted to cultivate date palms. As one of his tedium-splintering duties,… Richard Benyo · 30 min read Vol. 6, No. 5 · 2002 Walt Stack This profile originally appeared in Runner's World, September 1978, and is reprinted with permission. WALTER STACK stood at the edge of a pier looking out toward… Richard Benyo · 30 min read · 2002 Basic Training for a 3:00 Marathon Parts 1 and 2 of Rich Benyo's marathon training series appeared in our last two issues and covered training for a first and 3:30 marathon, respectively.… Richard Benyo · 28 min read Vol. 6, No. 1 · 2002 Basic Training for the Marathon When the marathon was created as a special Olympic Games event in 1896, it was considered by many sports enthusiasts to border on cruel and unusual… Richard Benyo · 12 min read 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
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