Toni Reavis

About The Author

For nearly five decades, Toni Reavis has chronicled distance running in print, radio, television, and live race commentary. A Los Angeles-area Emmy-winning broadcaster, he created Boston’s Runner’s Digest radio show, wrote for the Boston Herald, Running Times, Runner’s World, and New England Runner, hosted ESPN’s Road Race of the Month for more than a decade, and has covered major marathons and track championships across all major U.S. television networks. He is a two-time recipient of the RRCA Excellence in Running Journalism Award, the 2022 George Hirsch Journalism Award recipient, a member of the Running USA Hall of Champions, and a 2025 honoree of the Los Angeles Marathon Walk of Fame. He is also the author of Bisia & Isham: The Countess & The POW and the creator of the influential blog Wandering in a Running World. He lives in San Diego with his wife, Toya.

Books by Toni Reavis

Why We Run
The People, Moments, and History Behind Modern Running
For readers of Christopher McDougall’s Born to Run and Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Emmy-winning broadcaster Toni Reavis draws on five decades inside distance running—from the first running boom and history’s greatest marathon duels to Boston Str...

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