Molly Seidel's airplane story

She also claims to have a bronze medal, obviously a lie.

You realize that the fact that a bunch of letsrun posters insist that this is fake (under the logic that dames are more likely to lie then men are to make sexist assumptions) only makes this story all the more credible to the real world, right? As soon as I saw Molly post this little blurb I was wondering how long it would take for cranks here to post about it so they could say it was fake. You all took the bait way too easy...

Because there is no context posted for it you cant make a declaration about it one way or the other. Was it a case of "oh you say you run little lady? well thats cute. but if you really want to have any kind of success you should really increase your mileage. here look at the work out for this one chick who was at the Olympics..." or was it more likely a fan who was genuinely impressed with Mollys performance at the Olympics so much so that he actually looked up her work out regiment and just didnt recognize her with a mask on? who knows. but seeing the eminently predictable reactions to Mollys comment here on letsrun makes the former seem a lot more likely.

Lol

If Molly Slidell sat next to me I wouldn't have a clue who she was, and she wouldn't know me.

I would be willing to be that this story never happened and it's just made up. If the guy was so into running that they were talking specifics of training, how would he have not asked any detail whatsoever about her running?

Most of all: Why in the world would she have not told a big fan of hers that she was Molly Seidel? It would have made his day.

If this did happen, then the guy on the airplane has seen it already and responded somehow. Let's see if we figure out who he is on Twitter, Strava, or Letsrun in the next day or so. Otherwise this obviously didn't happen.

drocha86 wrote:

I like Molly, I thought the story was fun/light hearted when I first read her tweet….but then I read the comments and cringed hard at the “mansplaining” complaints and other takes that made me question whether the story was real, or at the very least realize the degree of the victim mentality from the “Fast Women” running social media side.

How did you know they are from fast women?

Let’s run detectives. Find this man!

Maybe the guy knew exactly who she was and was just trolling her.

Danicmic1 wrote:

Let’s run detectives. Find this man!

Exactly. If this were real, Molly could post the flight. We'd look to the passenger manifest and find out who she was seated next to and bring him on LRC for an interview.

Your move, Molly.

The thing that got me about the story is her not telling him it was her stats. She said she, "didn't have the heart to tell him." It seems to me that it would have been really funny to tell him for both of them. I don't know why he would have been embarrassed. He would probably have been delighted to officially meet her. His excitement about her numbers is a compliment to her.

frgrgfgf wrote:

I mean, it is weird that this guy automatically thinks he knows more than the woman sitting next to him about running...

I thought that was the general concept of this site?

i think the story is true, but it's either a bit exaggerated with many missing details, or she ran into a quasi autistic run fan.

with running nerds involved, either scenario is as likely as the other.

Is her training really available somewhere (web, blog, etc.) for people to conduct independent analysis on their phones?!?

high school xc coach wrote:

i think the story is true, but it's either a bit exaggerated with many missing details, or she ran into a quasi autistic run fan.

with running nerds involved, either scenario is as likely as the other.

Was the flight from Prague to Seattle?

I believe that her publicist is gonna get fired for this tweet. Or at least her publicist's social media intern.

It seems far fetched. So this guy knew about Molly, knew about her training, knew the person sitting to him was a runner and either couldn't figure out who she was or didn't ask any specifics of her running. Like I said, far fetched.

Also, its funny how there's an army of people on Twitter just waiting and salivating at the opportunity to cry mansplaining. There aren't enough details in the tweet to come to that conclusion.

How do we know how much Molly actually decides her training or thinks about the specifics? She has a coach right?

Maybe this person is a coach too - its okay for this person to be knowledgable even if he's clueless about whom he's talking to.

I'd probably be the same way if I actually talked to strangers. I'm totally 'faceblind' I recognize very few people.

mansplaining is the new way of saying I don't want tot listen to perfect valid information and want a justice bonner to my fellow "youths". Especially valid with women who do something well but haven't proved their ability to know the subject of which they doing well well.

It's called confusing ability with knowledge. When someone with ability, usually a female, hears someone with knowledge, usually a man, and they're too immature to hold a converstation = mansplaining.