Who is on the Marathon & Beyond staff?
Marathon & Beyond editor Rich Benyo was the executive editor of Runner’s World magazine from 1977 to 1984, during the height of the running boom. The author of 16 books in the areas of fitness, health, and sports, Rich is a serious long-distance runner who over the past 20 years has competed in practically every distance and type of running event imaginable–from 400 meters to ultramarathons. Besides running more than 35 marathons, Rich, along with Tom Crawford, became the first person to run from Death Valley to the peak of Mount Whitney and back–a distance of 300 miles. You can read about Rich’s Death Valley adventures in his book, The Death Valley 300. Rich is currently co-race director and board president of the Sutter Home Napa Valley Marathon. A member of the Road Runner’s Club of America, he currently lives in Forestville, CA, with his wife Rhonda Provost, who in 1995 became the first woman and the eighth runner overall to do the Death Valley-to-Mt. Whitney double-crossing succ
