Dan Plumlee

At age five, Dan Plumlee was told he might never run. Born with a rare hip disease, he spent his childhood in braces, his teen years battling self-doubt, and his early adulthood weighed down by pain, addiction, and the pressure to provide for a young family. For decades, Dan believed endurance wasn’t for people like him.

But life had other plans.

In The Long Run, Dan shares his deeply personal and inspiring journey—from a boy confined to traction to a man who defied every limitation to run ultramarathons with two hip replacements. With raw honesty and heartfelt storytelling, he reflects on love, fatherhood, faith, and the transformative power of perseverance.

This is more than a memoir about running. It’s about embracing pain as part of growth, finding purpose through struggle, and discovering that even an “ordinary” person can do extraordinary things.

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