Team GB Day 1 round-up in Torun
March 21, 2026
Senior Writer Jeff Benjamin has written for almost 40 years for RunBlogRun! The Former President of the Staten Island AC & was the 5th man scorer for his 1982 Susan Wagner High School NYC XC City Championship team. Also a member of the College of Staten Island Sports Hall of Fame for XC, Jeff is also a retired NYC DOE history teacher. Some of Jeff's subjects have included Sebastian Coe, Eamonn Coghlan, Matt Centrowitz, Billy Mills, Joe Newton, Tom Fleming, Bill Rodgers, Abel Kiviat, Frank Shorter, Rod Dixon and Carl Lewis as well as Book Reviews and articles covering track meets and races primarily in the Northeast U.S. and beyond.
Jeff has also covered Track & Field events at the 1996, 2016 & 2024 Olympic Games as well as the 2022 World T&F Championships in Eugene, Oregon. A noted T&F historian and chronicler of the athletic achievements of Jim Thorpe, Jeff helped with the restoration of Thorpe to the official IOC 1912 Record Books.
In 2023 Jeff was honored with the awarded the prestigious James Dunaway memorial award for excellence in Track and Field journalism by the Track and Field Writers Association.
Al Franken, one of the sport's finest impressarios, has died, at the age of 96. Having lived a full and...
In this Chapter 12, Jeff Benjamin reminds us that the NYRR Night of Champions is about helping kids in New...
In light of the 2017 win in NYC by Shalane Flanagan, becoming the first American woman since Miki Gorman, (1977),...
In the Chapter 9 for the NYC Marathon rewind for the 50th Anniversary, we go back to 2017, and the...
Jeff Benjamin, Gary Muerckhe, Dr. Norb Sander, Gene McCarthy, NYRR Night of Champions The NYRR Night of Champions is one...
The 1983 NYC Marathon did change running forever. Geoff Smith had taken off, built a huge lead, and 1972...
This is Chapter 6 in our 50th NYC Marathon Rewind. Jeff Benjamin, our senior editor for Staten Island and all...
If you have ever, ever run a race in the city of New York since 1977, you have experienced the...
This coming weekend, the TCS NYC Marathon celebrates its 50th anniversary. And, as he is prone to do, Jeff Benjamin,...
This piece by Jeff Benjamin is about 1991 World Championship bronze medalist in the marathon Steve Spence. His patience in...