Honoring Journalists and Historians of the Marathon
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38th Annual Honoring Journalists and Historians of the Marathon As part of the 2016 Kaiser Permanente Napa Valley Marathon College, the keynote panel discussion will Honoring Journalists & Historians feature a team of six journalists and historians who have closely followed the expansive growth of the of the Marathon marathon as an international sport and as a participant sport. In fact, some of them had a very firm hand March 6, 2016 in directing that explosive growth. Bios of the panel follow. The presentation will begin at noon on March 5 and run until 1:30 p.m. As in the past half-dozen years, the panel will be videotaped for later presentation on the marathon’s website. RRCA National Marathon Championship JOE HENDERSON Moderator Joe was a columnist and editor at Runner’s World Magazine for more than 30 years, and more recently wrote for Marathon & Beyond. He has published more than 30 books and is a veteran of more than 700 races, from sprints to ultras. He teaches running classes at the University of Oregon in Eugene and coaches a local marathon team. His recent columns appear at joehwritings.blogspot.com. Joe has been a guest of the Napa Valley Marathon every year since the early ‘90s. He and co-race director Rich Benyo teamed up to write The Running Encyclopedia (Human Kinetics, 2000). FRANK SHORTER Frank is currently writing a memoir along with author John Brandt, due out before the 2016 Olympics. It will be a personal depiction of his career in running, starting with his navigation through a difficult childhood of paternal abuse and brought up to date by describing his active efforts to eliminate the use of perfor- mance-enhancing drugs in all sport. Along the way he worked to bring Olympic sport into a modern age that always views the athlete as coming first. Frank won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Munich Olympics, ironically the city in which he was born while his doctor father was part of the U.S. Army occupy- ing force. Frank pretty much dominated the marathon during that era, winning Fukuoka three years in a row; at that time, Fukuoka was the unofficial world championships of marathoning. He also won the silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, behind an East German who was subsequently found to be using perfor- mance-enhancing drugs. Frank currently lives in Boulder, Colorado. JACQUELINE HANSEN Jacqueline was the first woman to break 2:45 in the marathon (in 1974), then the first to run sub-2:40 (in 1975) running 2:38:19 for a world record 40 years ago. Her life as a marathoner was launched as a Boston Marathon winner (in 1973). Her efforts with the International Runners Committee helped add the marathon and other long-distance races to the Olympic Games. She currently “teaches teachers” about health educa- tion in graduate schools; and she “coaches coaches and athletes” through running clinics around the world. She has published one book on the history of women’s running and is currently working on a second book. AMBY BURFOOT Amby won the 1968 Boston Marathon, and has served as a Runner’s World editor since 1978. He has run 52 consecutive Manchester CT 5-milers on Thanksgiving Day and, in April 2015 finished the Boston Mara- thon on the 50th anniversary of his first Boston in 1965. Burfoot, 69, is a member of the Road Runner’s Club of America Hall of Fame, and a recipient of the RRCA Journalism Award and the New York Road Runners/ George Hirsch Journalism Award. Burfoot’s new book, First Ladies: The Pioneers of Women’s Distance Running, will be published in early 2016. JON DUNHAM Jon is an accomplished filmmaker and a 25-time marathon finisher. The fusion of both these passions is reflected in his Spirit of the Marathon films. Premiering at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival, Spirit of the Marathon won the coveted Audience Award and was subsequently released in more than 400 cine- mas across the United States, where it grossed over one million dollars in two days. The critically acclaimed film was followed by Spirit of the Marathon II, released in more than 600 cinemas in June 2013. Jon is now in production on Boston, the first film ever to be produced about the legendary Boston Marathon. TONI REAVIS Toni is a real pro at broadcasting big-time running events. Runner’s World called him “the most insightful— and funny—talking head in running.” Reavis also helped pioneer coverage of the sport, hosting the Runner’s Digest radio show in Boston in the 1970s, working as a columnist for the Boston Herald in the 1980s, then hosting ESPN’s Road Race of the Month series throughout the 1990s. Today, Reavis lives in San Diego where he writes his tonireavis.com blog as well as penning articles for Running Times and Flotrack.com. In 2009 he entered the RunningUSA Hall of Champions. JAN COLARUSSO SEELEY Jan is the co-race director of the 20,000-runner Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon, held the last weekend of April in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. For 17 years she was the publisher and co-owner of Marathon & Be- yond Magazine, an international magazine for long-distance runners. A 1982 Yale graduate, Jan is a former world-class field hockey player, four-year member of the U.S. National Field Hockey Team, and the first alternate to the 1980 U.S. Olympic Field Hockey Team. She turned in her stick and cleats in the early ‘80s and became an avid long-distance runner and race director. Jan has a master’s degree in English from the University of Illinois. Jan’s running takes her to races all over the country. Among her favorite events are the Pikes Peak Ascent, the Big Sur International Marathon, Grandma’s Marathon and—of course—The Napa Valley Marathon..