JOE HENDERSON AND TOP RUNNERS TO APPEAR AT RENO AIR RUNNERS' FORUM

Joe Henderson--best-selling running author, motivater, and speaker--is 
appearing at the Reno Air Showdown (PA/USATF 15K Championship) for the 
second time. Runners may meet and talk with Joe most of the day on 
Saturday, June 6, at race headquarters, Boomtown Hotel and Casino. Joe 
will also speak at a forum for runners at Boomtown, scheduled for 3:30 
p.m. Saturday. The forum will allow you to meet and talk with some of the 
top runners in the 15K, including Linda Somers Smith, Jane Omoro, Matt 
Giusto, former world steeplechase record holder Peter Koech, Eddy 
Hellebuyck, Joan Ottaway, and others. The forum is just prior to the 
popular Pasta Feed (5:30 pm at Boomtown), which is free for all entrants. 
The Runners' Forum is free to all runners and their guests.
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JOE HENDERSON UP CLOSE
Joe Henderson began running as a 14-year-old in 1958, and has stayed 
active ever since. He competed in high school and college track and 
cross-country, and continues to run road races. He has raced more than 
700 times, at distances of less than 100 meters to more than 100 
kilometers.

Joe was born in Peoria, Illinois, on June 3rd, 1943. He grew up in the 
town of Coin, Iowa, and graduated in 1965 from Drake University in Des 
Moines.

His experience as a running writer and editor goes back to the 1960s. He 
has worked as staff writer at Track & Field News (1967-70), managing 
editor of Runner's World (1970-77), consulting editor for RW (1977-80), 
senior editor of Running magazine (1980-83) and columnist for RW 
(1983-present). Since 1982, he also has written and published the monthly 
newsletter Running Commentary.

His 19 books on running and fitness range from LSD: The Humane Way to 
Train (1969) to Marathon Training (1997).

Joe is a member of the Road Runners Club of America Hall of Fame, the 
only two-time winner of the RRCA Journalism Award, and has served as 
executive director of the International Runners Committee.

He travels regularly from his home in Eugene, Oregon, to speak at, write 
about and participate in running events throughout North America.