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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.

M&B Vol. 6, No. 6 · 2002 Editorial: Don’t Blame Me DON'T BLAME ME A case currently ricocheting around the "halls of justice" in California may well have a profoundly devastating effect on the sports of road… Richard Benyo · 7 min read M&B Vol. 6, No. 5 · 2002 Editorial AFRAID TO COMMIT? Back in those "halcyon" days of the mid-'60s, we had a guy on our college cross-country team who liked to say things like,… Richard Benyo · 5 min read M&B Vol. 6, No. 5 · 2002 Editorial: September/October 2002 (pp. 3-4) Every old-line marathoner laments that there is no longer the commitment to the long, hard training that was the hallmark of the 60s and ’70s and… Richard Benyo · 2 min read M&B Vol. 6, No. 2 · 2002 The Lure of the Little THE LURE OF THE LITTLE Throughout the past decade, the growth of marathon participation has stayed consistently between five and ten percent per year. The number… Richard Benyo · 5 min read Vol. 5, No. 5 · 2001 Editorial: Out of Lossiemouth OUT OF LOSSIEMOUTH Over the Christmas holidays of 1978 Runner's World held its annual National Running Week in Palo Alto, California. National Running Week was an… Richard Benyo · 10 min read M&B Vol. 5, No. 2 · 2001 Editorial: March/April 2001 Home. Just one plane ride and one train ride away, followed by a five-mile zoom in my pal George Terry’s powerful Pontiac. Then, on Monday morning,… Richard Benyo · 5 min read M&B Vol. 4, No. 4 · 2000 Working Assets In recent years many businesses have taken creative approaches, using trips and premiums to motivate employees to do a better job—a better job that usually involves… Richard Benyo · 4 min read M&B Vol. 4, No. 3 · 2000 Editorial: IQ Aerobics IQ AEROBICS Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s when many of us were running more marathons than was wise, several of us hatched a… Richard Benyo · 4 min read M&B Vol. 3, No. 4 · 1999 Editorial Puzzle Pieces Despite what Forrest Gump's mother contended, life really isn't much like a box of chocolates. It's more a jigsaw puzzle of odd-sized pieces that… Richard Benyo · 4 min read Vol. 3, No. 3 · 1999 Editorial: Good. Better. Best. GOOD. BETTER. BEST. Marathoning in North America ain't what it used to be. That's the inevitable conclusion reached when you toss enough hoary old marathon codgers… Richard Benyo · 7 min read M&B Vol. 2, No. 6 · 1998 Editorial: The Experiment THE EXPERIMENT This past August a runner went to Death Valley to attempt to run 150 miles from Badwater (the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere… Richard Benyo · 4 min read M&B Vol. 2, No. 5 · 1998 Editorial: September/October 1998 […] to be a champion long-distance runner you had to “run on the edge of death.” We’ ve certainly seen that philosophy in rather stark terms… Richard Benyo · 2 min read M&B Vol. 2, No. 3 · 1998 Rumors of Immortality When we compiled our list of "25 Who Reinvented the Marathon" to run in conjunction with our celebration of "25 Years of Marathon Madness" (M&B, September/October… Richard Benyo · 9 min read M&B Vol. 2, No. 1 · 1998 Editorial: January/February 1998 If you’re fit enough to run marathons and ultras, you’re a damned aerobic astronaut. And as a rebel ina world of lumps, you’re liable to run… Richard Benyo · 1 min read M&B Vol. 1, No. 4 · 1997 Editorial: July/August 1997 (p. 3) […] for a successful hunt, including the return trip dragging or carrying the game. The theory is cute, clever, and neat. There was also a theory… Richard Benyo · 2 min read Vol. 1, No. 4 · 1997 Wretched Excess WRETCHED EXCESS Nobody gets out of here alive. Our only positive options are to take steps to lengthen our stay and make our visit as lively… Richard Benyo · 9 min read M&B Vol. 1, No. 3 · 1997 Editorial: Downhill Running DOWNHILL RUNNING The main feature of this issue is a survey titled "Where Are America's World-Class Marathoners?" The survey was inspired by the increasingly abysmal showing… Richard Benyo · 5 min read Vol. 1, No. 1 · 1997 Marathon 101 THE FIRST modern Olympics at Athens in 1896 was a resounding success because of the invention of the marathon—and because of the victory of the home… Richard Benyo · 20 min read M&B Vol. 5, No. 1 · 2001 Editorial: January/February 2001 […] most starters we had were two. Seeing so many runners on the road at the same time served as a negative culture shock. Not that… Richard Benyo · 1 min read M&B Vol. 2, No. 2 · 1998 Editorial: March/April 1998 “Mastering” the Distance A preamble to our six-article special section on life in the masters lane. The Edge of Might Timothy Martin Some fears and realizations… Richard Benyo · 1 min read M&B Vol. 1, No. 1 · 1997 Editorial: January/February 1997 […] viding road maps to help you get to new running territory. M&B will also provide a forum for your ideas, insights, questions, experiences, and concerns.… Richard Benyo · 1 min read
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