Competitor bio:

Dan is the 80-year-old father of three brilliant and beautiful daughters who have blessed him with three great sons-in-law and nine wonderful grandchildren. Growing up on a ranch near the small town of Madill, Oklahoma, Dan was educated at Thomas Jefferson Preparatory School in St. Louis, Mo, Harvard University and the University of Oklahoma College of Law and is still practicing Law and operating different businesses. Dan has been involved in Oklahoma education as a Regent at the University of Oklahoma (1978-85) and the first and only Chairman of the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics for 37 years (1986-2023). Dan has completed 230 marathons and ultramarathons but describes himself as the classic tortoise. Dan did finish the 2019 World Marathon Challenge and broke the oldest finisher’s record by nine years. Dan looks forward to us all sharing the same experiences of feeling half dead and never more alive at the same time.