Danielle Dingman: Victim of a Twitter Attack as a Rookie Pro - Triathlon Taren Podcast

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Taren Gesell

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4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Danielle Dingman has been the subject of a Twitter attack as a result of a GoFundMe campaign she launched to help fund her rookie season as an Ironman 70.3 pro. Danielle speaks about how she first heard about the online attack, which pro triathletes have reached out to offer support or advice, and how she plans to approach her rookie season given that her introduction to the pro ironman 70.3 ranks has been less than ideal. Topics discussed in the interview: Danielle Dingman GoFundMe Campaign Danielle's Instagram account Danielle Dingman Website

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up, Trainiacs? Today's episode of the podcast is brought to you by our first ongoing sponsor, Health IQ.
0:06.5	Woo-hoo! That's Health IQ. They are a life insurance company that offer active people like us Trainiacs as much as a 25% savings on life insurance, which really just makes too much sense, right?
0:18.4	Because with traditional life insurance, us healthy people are
0:21.1	basically subsidizing the cost of insurance for the unhealthy people in that life insurance plan.
0:27.5	And being a recovering investment advisor myself from a former life, that was actually legitimately
0:32.7	always something that kind of irked me. That ticked you off. It ticked me off. No more.
0:37.3	I come home and throw my suit on the ground and I hated it.
0:41.2	If you want to learn more, go to health IQ.com forward slash triathlon Taryn.
0:45.9	That's where they put all the triathlete specific info for health IQ.
0:50.6	And it'll let health IQ know how awesome us Trainiacs in this podcast are.
0:55.5	Today's podcast guest is Danielle Dingman, who over the last few weeks has been the victim of a triathlon Twitter attack, actually.
1:05.2	And TK is actually recently being the victim of a triathlon Twitter.
1:09.5	No, just a Twitter attack.
1:10.6	Just a Twitter attack. And it was terrible. So Danielle, not a triathlon Twitter attack. Just a Twitter attack.
1:11.6	And it was terrible. So Danielle is not a very well-known pro-triathletes because this coming
1:17.0	year. She's brand new. She was coming into her first year as a pro triathlet in 2018. She was an elite
1:23.2	college runner at Baylor. She qualified for the Olympic trials in 2008 for 3,000 meters steeple
1:30.0	chase, ended up kind of gravitating more towards cycling due to some injuries, but found
1:36.0	duathlon and triathlon, found out she had a real knack for it over this past year in 2017,
1:41.1	and next year was going to be her first year. And still is. Still is going to be
1:45.1	her first year. And unfortunately decided to, well, fortunately, or unfortunately, or unfortunately,
1:51.0	started a GoFundMe page that became the subject of a hundred plus comment Twitter attack
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