Richard Benyo

Richard Stephen Benyo, born 20 April 1946, is an American journalist and veteran distance runner who edited Marathon and Beyond magazine, a magazine devoted to marathon and ultramarathon running, from 1997 until it closed in late 2015, and was earlier executive editor of Runner's World. He has written 17 books on running, health and fitness, among them The Death Valley 300 and The Running Encyclopedia. As a runner he has raced from 400 metres to ultramarathons and has completed 37 marathons. With his running partner Tom Crawford he founded the Badwater race, first held in 1987, and in 1989 the two became the first to complete the 300 mile run from Badwater in Death Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney and back. They were inducted into the Badwater Hall of Fame in 2004.