Richard Benyo

Richard Benyo is the editor of "Marathon & Beyond" and race director of the Sutter Home Napa Valley Marathon. He's also a serious long-distance runner who over the past 20 years has competed in practically every type of running event imaginable-from 400-meter runs to ultramarathons. This veteran of more than 35 marathons became the first person, along with Tom Crawford, to run from Death Valley to the peak of Mount Whitney and back in midsummer-a distance of 300 miles. Rich was the executive...See more

Richard Benyo is the editor of "Marathon & Beyond" and race director of the Sutter Home Napa Valley Marathon. He's also a serious long-distance runner who over the past 20 years has competed in practically every type of running event imaginable-from 400-meter runs to ultramarathons. This veteran of more than 35 marathons became the first person, along with Tom Crawford, to run from Death Valley to the peak of Mount Whitney and back in midsummer-a distance of 300 miles. Rich was the executive editor of "Runner's World" during the height of the running boom, from 1977 to 1984, and the fitness and running columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1985 to 1990. He is the author of "Masters of the Marathon, The Exercise Fix, " and "Making the Marathon Your Event." A member of the Road Runners Club of America, Rich currently lives in Forestville, CA, with his wife Rhonda Provost. See less