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Dani Seiss

Dani Seiss
Dani Seiss is a runner, certified coach, musician and writer who works for The Washington Post. She has been running ultras since 2009, but has been running long in the mountains of Appalachia since the late 1980’s. She blogs about her running adventures and misadventures at danirunner.wordpress.com, and occasionally writes about running for The Washington Post. Currently, she is working on a book about how running saved her life, and how it can change yours.