Competitor bio:

Danielle has been running since age 10 and, coached by her father, she competed at the South African championship in middle distance track for several years in the mid 1980 to early 1990’s. While in College in the USA she ran her first Marathon in 2010 (Miami marathon) and over the next several years she completed several more Half and 6 full marathons, an ultra-marathon (50k) in 2019 as well as a 3 half Ironmans (2018 and 2 back to back in 2022) and one full ironman (2018). She has a few reasons for running the world marathon challenge. Her main reason in running the WMC is to honor her father, who passed away the day after her birthday in 2019. She lost 3 of her beloved pets in the last 2 years. And finally, she wants to honor all the health care providers that have been working so hard during the pandemic. Her dad’s last words besides happy birthday was don’t regret not doing something you dream to do.