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What is Marathon & Beyond?
Marathon & Beyond(M&B) is a 12-year-old, bimonthly magazine tailored specifically for marathoners and ultrarunners. It is edited and published by former Runner's World executive editor Richard Benyo and former FootNotes coeditor and Human Kinetics editor Jan Colarusso
Seeley. M&B is published by 42K(+) Press, Inc., based in Champaign, Illinois.
What is M&B's Mission?
Marathon & Beyond is designed to provide practical advice on running or preparing to run
marathons and ultradistances. M&B includes complete training programs; easy-to-apply, cutting-
edge scientific information; insightful examinations of the personal side of longer distance
running; profiles of major marathons and ultramarathons; and regular columns focusing
on specific aspects of running. The magazine also provides readers with a forum for sharing
ideas, insights, questions, experiences, and concerns. M&B reaffirms the spirit of community,
tradition, and collective experience. Marathoners, ultramarathoners, and those who want to
become marathoners or ultramarathoners will enjoy the presentation of the important and useful
information contained in each issue.
How is M&B different from Runner's Worldor Running Times?
Runner's World (a glossy magazine published 12 times a year) includes content for a broad range of runners—
from track and field athletes and 5K and 10K athletes to multi-sport athletes and long-distance runners. The magazine
covers races of every distance, up to the marathon. It appeals to many novice runners or those competing
in shorter events. In Runner's World you'll also find product and shoe reviews, extensive race calendar listings, and race
reports.
Running Times (a glossy magazine published 10 times a year) is pitched at more serious runners than Runner's World. It, too, covers a wide range of running events, but focuses exclusively on road events from 5K to the marathon distance. As in Runner's World, you'll also find product and shoe reviews, extensive race calendar listings, and race reports in Running Times.
Marathon & Beyond offers focused content: every article in the magazine relates to marathons and
ultramarathons—training information, nutrition, race strategies, running history, and so on. You won't find articles
like "10 Ways to a Faster 10K" or "5 Ways to Flatter Abs." M&B appeals to first-time and veteran long-distance
runners. The magazine offers in-depth marathon profiles, complete training programs, exotic destination race accounts, rich historical perspectives, and science you can use. Most articles in other magazines are 3 to 4 pages (500 to
1,500 words); Marathon & Beyond articles run as long as they need to (sometimes 15 or 20 pages).
Describe a typical issue of M&B
Marathon & Beyond (200 pages per issue) offers a number of regular features:
* My Most Unforgettable Marathon (or Ultramarathon): accomplished runners' describe their most memorable
race and share what they learned
* Marathon Profile—a "soup to nuts" profile: race history, what to expect on the course, what sights to see
(and avoid) in the race city, where to stay, course record holders, and additional information about the race
* On the Road—noted running scribes share observations and opinions about long-distance running. Columnists
have included Kathrine Switzer, Roger Robinson, Scott Douglas, Joe LeMay, Barry Lewis, Ellen Curtain, Joe Henderson, and currently features Don Kardong.
* Joe's Journal-column by Joe Henderson, running writer guru and author of over two dozen books
* On the Mark—our panel of experts answers readers' running questions
* In addition to our regular departments and columns, you will find at least a dozen full-length feature stories in each issue. About once per year an issue will contain a special section-a cluster of articles on one particular topic. Past special sections have covered such topics as Death Valley, The Search for the Perfect Marathon, Western States 100, Masters Running, Sports Medicine, and the Antarctica Marathon.
What won't you find in M&B
You won't find reviews of shoes, apparel, or equipment; lists of upcoming races or race reports. Not because we
don't think such material is important, but because other magazines and many Internet sites do a fine job of providing
this material. Because M&B focuses on long-distance running, you won't have to wade through pages and pages of
articles for casual runners before you find a juicy morsel for marathoners and ultrarunners. It's our goal to go beyond
what other running magazines are doing, to give you extensive coverage of topics that are unique to long-distance
running.
Who writes for M&B?
All the writers in M&B are runners (some also happen to be professional journalists), coaches, or scientists.
Members of M&B's science advisory board—some of the top researchers in the world in the science of running—
are frequent contributors. Our writers have included a former Olympic marathoner, an elder statesman of the Boston
Marathon, and may others who know the rewards and challenges of long-distance running.
Do you have a Web site? Is it secure? Can you subscribe to M&B via your Web site?
Yes, we have a secureWeb site (www.marathonandbeyond.com).
(http://www.marathonandbeyond.com/). Yes,
you can subscribe to M&B
via our Web site and order M&B gear and back issues as well through the site.
Can you get M&B at the bookstores or your local running store?
Marathon & Beyond is available in bookstores and running stores across the country.
If your local bookstore or running store isn't carrying the magazine, ask them to contact
us at (toll-free) 877/972-4230.
How much is a subscription to M&B?
A one-year subscription (six issues) is $36.95 U.S., $54 Foreign, and $47.65 Cnd.
(includes 6% GST). A two-year subscription (12 issues) is $69 U.S.; $103 Foreign; and $90.10
Cnd. (includes 6% GST). A three-year subscription (18 issues) is $101 U.S.; $152 Foreign; $132.50
Cnd. (includes 6% GST). We offer an Early Bird renewal special, as well as a new subscriber
incentive program. Back issues of M&B cost $6.00, any six for $30, plus shipping. Call (217) 359-9345, (toll-free) 877/972-4230, or via our Web site:
www.marathonandbeyond.com to order.
M&B doesn't look like a magazine. Why?
Many people are surprised the first time they see M&B because it doesn't look like a typical magazine.
Marathon & Beyond looks like a book but reads like a magazine and IS a magazine. We wanted the magazine to be sturdy and have shelf presence, like a paperback book that you'll want to add to your running library and refer to again and again. Time after time, our readers tell us that M&B is a "read and save" not a "read and throw away" magazine.
M&B will inspire you to run longer, better, smarter.
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 17 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 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 successfully.
Rich's latest book--written with Joe Henderson--is Running Enclyclopedia and was published in
2001. Rich is on the staff of the Dick Beardsley Marathon Running Camp.
Marathon & Beyond publisher Jan Colarusso Seeley has been lacing up her running shoes since 1974.
Jan worked at the U.S. headquarters of Human Kinetics Publisher in Champaign, Illinois, for over seven years,
serving as editor of nearly 50 books before moving to HK's journal division in the fall of 1996 to manage M&B.
From 1991 to 1997, Jan, along with her husband Joe, was also the editor of FootNotes, the quarterly publication
of the Road Runner's Club of America.
A 1982 Yale graduate and former world-class field hockey player and four-year member of the U.S. National Field Hockey Team, Jan turned in her stick and cleats in the early '80s and became an avid long-distance runner and race director. She has been running for 33 years. Jan has a Masters degree in English from the University of Illinois, and has written articles for such publications as FootNotes, The Boston Globe, and the Yale Alumni Magazine.
Jan also works as the manager for long-distance running legends Dick Beardsley, Helen Klein, and Patti Catalano Dillon; and nationally renowned coaches Bill Wenmark and GP Pearlberg, promoting them as speakers at races, schools, corporations, and non-profits throughout the running world. Jan is also the director of the Dick Beardsley's Marathon Running Camp and his high school running camps.
Every M&B subscriber is a marathoner and/or ultrarunner (or wannabe) who runs or walks several long-distance races a year. Our subscribers range from novices to seasoned veterans and everything in between. M&B is an international publication, with subscribers living in every state of the United States, all provinces of Canada, over a dozen European countries, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as places like Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and—yes —even Iceland. In general, our readers fit the well-documented demographic profile of runners: they are well-educated, well-read, like to travel to races, and invest heavily in their gear.
Chairman-
Peter Wood, DSc, PhD, FACSM
Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Ellen Coleman, MA, MPH, RD
California Angels Sport Clinic
Perry Julien, DPM
Atlanta Foot and Ankle Center
Michael Lambert, PhD
Sports Science Institute of South Africa
Benjamin D. Levine, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Center at Dallas
David E. Martin, PhD
Georgia State University
Russell Robert Pate, PhD
University of South Carolina
Pedro Pujol, MD
Olympic Training Center (Spain)
William Oliver Roberts, MD
MinnHealth SportsCare Consultants
Michael Leo Sachs, PhD
Temple University
Marcia L. Stefanick, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Keith Williams, PhD
University of California, Davis
Melvin H. Williams, PhD
Old Dominion University
Review: Marathon & Beyond
by Don Allison, Cool Running
www.coolrunning.com/
The sport of running has long been perceived as a thought-provoking activity. In order to reach one's full potential
in competition, one must spend a fair amount of time looking inward to find the answers that will unlock the secrets
to tapping that potential. Those who fully embrace long-distance running find it to be a constant learning process.
No events demand an athlete's full devotion more than marathon and ultramarathon distance races. Those athletes
now have a publication they can fully embrace as well, called Marathon & Beyond.
It only takes a cursory glance to see that M&B is attempting to carve a unique niche among running publications.
The fact that M&B is sized more like a book more than a traditional magazine is a tip-off to the contents
inside. What is inside are a full complement of meaty articles on a variety of topics pertaining to the marathon
and ultradistance races. Included in each issue are first-person accounts of races from around the world, "how-to"
articles from leading coaches and exercise physiologists, and an in-depth review of a selected marathon for those
looking to travel to a race.
Experts also provide detailed answers to questions from readers on training for and racing marathons and ultras.
In addition, it is clear the M&B editors are students of history. Analytical studies of the history
of our sport are the kind of articles one simply does not find in any other running publication. There simply are
not any stock articles in M&B. One is consistently left with the impression that the authors have put
a great amount of thought and effort into each piece.
M&B is also conspicuous by what it lacks, namely race results and calendar listings, the meat and potatoes
of streamlined running publications. The editors clearly state that this running publication has more lofty goals
than to list and report on races, and it shows.
Most all print running publications appeal to the widest possible audience and target pieces for the lowest common
denominator. This is the usual formula for profitability. There has never been a running publication that has forgone
these staples in order to seek a higher plane. In effect, the publishers and editors of M&B are giving
marathon and ultra runners a compliment by saying they believe there are enough athletes who are committed enough
to the sport to support a publication that offers something deeper than basic training articles and race summaries.
What makes M&B truly succeed however, is that it appeals to new marathoners as well as experienced ones.
Regardless of the amount of years or experience one has in the sport, each article will leave the reader with more
information, as well as a point of view worth contemplating. If you are a marathoner or prospective marathoner
to whom the sport means more than just covering 26.2 miles, take the opportunity to read Marathon & Beyond.
If you do, I can assure you that it will not be the last time you do.
Review: Marathon & Beyond
by Freddi Carlip, Runner's Gazette
Running Along the Literary Trail
Running publications, just like the runners who read them, come in all shapes and sizes. There are the glossies,
chock full with slick ads and ways to improve race times. There are the regionals, (Runner's Gazette for
example), each with the flavor of the area it covers. There are running club newsletters which are perfect for
all of the club-related goings-on. And there's the Road Runners Club of America's flagship publication FootNotes,
which provides valuable information for RRCA members.
With so many pubs to chose from, what makes a "new kid on the block" stand out? Plenty! Especially when
it's Marathon & Beyond, a bimonthly feast for runners who are not only interested
in marathons and ultras, but also in running as pure sport.
There are articles to interest even the most jaded runner. Each issue features "On the Road" by former
Running Times editor Scott Douglas. Where else would you find a 10-part series on the "Great Six-Day Races" of
another era? Or find a well-written article, that does more than scratch the surface, on the marathon madness that
gripped us 25 years ago...and grips us still?
M&B presents us with a smorgasbord where each selection is too good to pass up. Articles featured
in past issues have included "The Shorter Legacy"; "The Vegetarian Runner"; "The Last
Olympic Marathoner"; "Into the Valley of Death"; and "The Frank and Bill Show."
In addition to Roger's column, regular features include "My Most Unforgettable Marathon (or ultra) and What
I Learned From It"; an in-depth piece on a marathon in North America; a reader/expert Q&A; an editorial
by Rich Benyo; and, something we rarely see in other running publications, a bio and photo of each contributing
writer.
M&B is easy to read and easy to take anywhere. It's soft-cover and book-size, and has the readability
of a favorite magazine. Each article and each writer is chosen with care and with the reader in mind.
Marathon & Beyond serves up a varied menu of well-written articles that are informative and interesting--a
feast to satisfy any reader.
As its tagline so aptly says, " Go the extra miles with Marathon & Beyond." The cost
of $36.95 for one year is a bargain for sure.
Marathon & Beyond is available at Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores and many, many other magazine specialty shops. In addition, the following running stores carry M&B (listed alphabetically by state, then country). If a bookstore or running store near you does NOT carry M&B, have them contact us at toll-free 877/972-4230.
Alabama
1st Place Athletics
805 Regal Drive, #2
Huntsville, AL 35801
Track Shack
2839 18th St South
Birmingham, AL 35209
Arizona
Runner's Den, Inc.
6505 N 16th St
Phoenix, AZ 85016
California
Napa Running Company
942 Main St.
Napa, CA 94559
Connecticut
Kelley's Pace
27 Coogan Blvd., Bldg 15-C
Mystic, CT 06355
Sound Runner
1088 Main St.
Branford, CT 06405
Sound Runner
762 Boston Post Road
Madison, CT 06443
Georgia
Phidippides
1544 Piedmont Rd
Ansley Mall
Atlanta, GA 30324
Idaho
Bandanna Running & Walking
504 W Main St.
Boise, ID 83702
Shu's Idaho Running Company
1758 West State St
Boise, ID 83702
Illinois
Body n' Sole Sports
1317 North Dunlap Ave
Savoy, IL 61874
Naperville Running Company
20 West Jefferson
Naperville, IL 60540
Runner's Image
219 E. State St.
Rockford, IL 61104
Running Central
700 W. Main St.
Peoria, IL 61606
Universal Sole
3052 North Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL 60657
Maryland
Fleet Feet Sports Baltimore
1809 Reisterstown Rd Suite 149
Baltimore, MD 21208
Massachusetts
Bill Rodgers's Running Center
353 T-N Market Place
Boston, MA 02109
New England Running Company
43 Enon
Beverly MA 01915
Michigan
Bauman's Running & Fitness Center
1453 W. Hill Rd.
Flint, MI 48507
Hansons Running Shop
3407 Rochester Rd
Royal Oak, MI 48073
Playmakers, Inc.
2299 W Grand River
Okemos, MI 48864
Running Circles
41 Washington Suite 160
Grand Haven, MI 49417
New Mexico
Athlete's Edge
7120 Wyoming Blvd NE Suite 15
Albuquerque, NM 87109
New York
Westchester Road Runner
179 East Post Road
White Plains, NY 10601
North Dakota
Westchester Road Runner
506 Broadway
Fargo, ND 58102
Ohio
Bob Roncker's Running Spot
1993 Madison Road
Cincinnati, OH 45208
Fleet Feet Sports
9525 Kenwood Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45242
FrontRunner
1344 W Lane Avenue
Columbus, OH 43221
Oklahoma
Fleet Feet Sports Tulsa
6022 S Yale Ave
Tulsa OK 74135
Oregon
Eugene Running Co LLC
116 Oakway Center
Eugene OR 97401
Gallagher Fitness
135 Commercial Street
Salem, OR 97301
Pennsylvania
Elite Runners & Walkers
5992-D Steubenville Pike, Ste 167
McKees Rocks, PA 15136-1352
Runaway Success
Chestnut Village Shoppes
36 Chestnut Road
Paoli, PA 19301
South Dakota
The Runner's Shop
615 Mt. Rushmore Rd
Rapid City, SD 57701
Tennessee
Team Nashville
2817 West End Ave, Suite 110
Nashville, TN 37203
Texas
Roger Soler's SportsRun Tex Web site
422 W. Riverside
Austin, TX 78704
Utah
The Trail Head
82 West 100 North
Logan, UT 84321
Virginia
Runner's Retreat
165 N Loudoun
Winchester, VA 22601
Washington
Fairhaven Runners
1209 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225
South Sound Running
3409 Capitol Blvd S
Olympia, WA 98501
Canada
Alex Coffin's Fitness Shop
116B Old Hampton Road
Rothesay, New Brunswick
Canada E2E 2P9
Gord's Running Store Ltd
919 Centre St. NE
Calgary, Alberta T2E 2P6
Canada
The Running Room
All over Canada
Volumes I and II only (1997/1998)
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