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The Long Run Home: A Daughter's Run Across America to Fight MS
Raw and inspiring, The Long Run Home is a memoir of resilience, belonging, and the joy found in turning pain into purpose-the story of one woman's mission to run 3,288 miles solo across America for her mother and the disease crippling her.
Ashley Schneider's life at sea seemed belaying rock walls, leading surf lessons, with friends in every port. She wasn't seeking to confront the pain she carried from her mother's disease. Then an ordinary three-mile run in Barcelona called her home with an audacious idea to make a difference, trading her cruise-ship uniform for running shoes and a borrowed motorhome.
Schneider pushed through blistered feet, heat exhaustion, and doubt as she completed 125 consecutive marathons from San Francisco to New York-raising funds and awareness for MS research while testing the reaches of human strength, courage, and heart.
The Long Run Home is equal parts adventure memoir, legacy project, and call to action. It proves that the toughest terrain often leads us back to where we belong and reveals the truths that set us free. A powerful testament to what becomes possible when we transform personal struggle into collective hope.
Ashley Schneider's life at sea seemed belaying rock walls, leading surf lessons, with friends in every port. She wasn't seeking to confront the pain she carried from her mother's disease. Then an ordinary three-mile run in Barcelona called her home with an audacious idea to make a difference, trading her cruise-ship uniform for running shoes and a borrowed motorhome.
Schneider pushed through blistered feet, heat exhaustion, and doubt as she completed 125 consecutive marathons from San Francisco to New York-raising funds and awareness for MS research while testing the reaches of human strength, courage, and heart.
The Long Run Home is equal parts adventure memoir, legacy project, and call to action. It proves that the toughest terrain often leads us back to where we belong and reveals the truths that set us free. A powerful testament to what becomes possible when we transform personal struggle into collective hope.
328 pages, Hardcover
Published November 10, 2025
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March 23, 2026
The Long Run Home is a deeply moving and inspiring memoir that captures the true essence of resilience, purpose, and human endurance. Ashley Schneider’s journey across America is not only a remarkable physical feat but a heartfelt mission driven by love, courage, and unwavering determination. Her storytelling is raw, honest, and profoundly uplifting, drawing readers into every mile of her transformative run. This book beautifully illustrates how personal pain can be turned into powerful purpose, leaving readers motivated, reflective, and inspired to make a difference.
March 11, 2026
Amazing and remarkable journey. This is a great memoir about running across America, starting a charity, battling MS, and much much more. Very real. Very inspirational and very relatable. it shows that we can all change the world if we try!!!
November 23, 2025
Captivating and inspiring.
February 13, 2026
Ashley ran 26+ miles a day, 6 days a week for 6 months 😳. Truly an amazing and inspirational story of her MS Run the US journey in support of her mother battling the disease.
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