David Willey
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David Willey is the Editor-in-Chief of Runner’s World magazine and the Editorial Director of Running Times and Bicycling magazines. He joined Runner’s World in 2003 and oversaw the magazine’s award-winning redesign in 2004. Prior to joining Runner’s World, Willey spent more than eight years at Men’s Journal.

Willey was previously the American Society of Magazine Editors President, concluding his two-year term in May 2010.

For the third time in four years, Willey will be the running reporter for NBC’s broadcast of the 2010 ING New York City Marathon on Sunday, November 7, conducting live on-the-run interviews with runners as they compete in the Marathon.

Willey graduated from Williams College in 1989 with a major in political science, and received a master’s of journalism in magazine publishing from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1992. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and three children.

Blog Entries by David Willey

Remembering Grete Waitz, the First Lady of the Marathon

2 Comments | Posted October 31, 2011 | 16:55:48 (EST)

It can be unnerving to meet someone famous for the first time, especially someone you've admired for decades, someone who'd been compared to Grace Kelly and Greta Garbo, someone who ran so fast but with such Zen-like, expressionless grace -- a Mona Lisa in pigtails -- that she made you,...

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Barefoot Running: The Exercise Craze That's Hit the Streets

Posted November 4, 2010 | 08:52:19 (EST)

There's this photo of my dad and me running a 10-K that makes me wince whenever I see it. We're side by side, faces set in the same fiercer-than-intended expression (no doubt where I inherited that from). The big difference is in our legs. My dad is landing on the...

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