Molly Seidel's airplane story

The Q in LGBTQ wrote:

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

Yes, if your mind imagines the in depth research you do,and Molly imagines that this conversation happened .

fabrication wrote:

This 100% did not happen. Molly is an amazing runner, but is also well known for making up stories that sound funny and interesting and garner attention. Cringey.

The Molly-knower has logged on! /s

Danicmic1 wrote:

Let’s run detectives. Find this man!

I'd say the work is already done. She posted on Twitter and you guys posted here. That's probably good enough to get the guy's attention within a day or two. The only relevant platform that's missing is Strava, which surely the guy would see since he researches and follows her on there.

Just wait. Within 48 hours there will either be a "I met Molly MF Seidel on an airplane and told her I stalk her training," thread or there won't be.

Probably someone like one of the posters on this thread.

Or maybe it is a composite of letsrun experts that know more than most coaches and elite runners.

Luv2Run wrote:

I do not find it that strange. For a year there was a woman in a large running group pretty much every Wednesday night. Only ever saw her in running gear and that included a hat a lot. Now we only spoke a few times and never ran together.

One evening I am at an event and I see this woman dressed nicely, make up, hair done. She looks familiar. Finally make my way over and she says my name and asks how I am. Once I heard her voice I realized who it was.

In the end, he was not wrong with his advice!

Kelly Lundy?

cheekorobbins wrote:

If she was flying business class this is exactly the kind of behaviour you witness all the time, men who think they know better than everyone so they never ask, especially when talking to women.

It’s exactly the kind of men on this forum, and in this thread, and saying she made this up.

If you think the hardest part of the story to believe is that he didn’t recognize her … well … what can I say?

Wouldn't shock me if this was made up, or at the very least exaggerated and embellished. First, hardly anyone talks to strangers on planes in such detail, and even less on the post-covid masked flights I've been on. So you sit next to a rare chatty neighboring passenger. Then that passenger happens to have a detailed analysis of her training plan ready to go on his phone.

Even if in the 1 in 100,000 chance this is all true, the story sounds so insane that I would NOT be posting it on Twitter. FWIW I've heard several rumors that she could be a bit... weird, narcissistic, even neurotic. Reminds me of a guy I knew in college who was always making up stupid stories to seem accomplished/funny/likeable yet anyone with half a brain could tell they belonged on /r/thathappened.

i am questioning more and more with every post whether any version of this story is true.

cyanide wrote:

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.

Thank you so much for explaining that to all of. Just out of curiosity - are you a man? You must be. That explanation was just so good.

high school xc coach wrote:

i am questioning more and more with every post whether any version of this story is true.

I’m questioning more and more whether people like you are asking this just bc she’s a woman

"it came up that I run" ? "Didn't have the heart to tell him" ?

Hard to believe.

I don't believe her

If anyone needs a simple way to explain the prevalence of toxic masculinity, they can just reference this thread. 100 dudebros mansplaining why this couldn’t have happened, and if it did, it was fine, and she should have been flattered.

Also, if you think she should have told this guy who was obsessed with her training that it was her, and been subjected to whatever creepiness her was going to inflict for the rest of the flight, you’re an absolute idiot.

This thread is full of incels

Im not asking wrote:

high school xc coach wrote:

i am questioning more and more with every post whether any version of this story is true.

I’m questioning more and more whether people like you are asking this just bc she’s a woman

im questioning because some people who claim to be in the know are saying she has narcissistic tendencies.

are you saying that the posters here don't regularly call out men for their bs?

I really have to wonder how YOUR mind works to turn this into a gender thing.

llort_vbo wrote:

^^^also didn’t happen in real life^^^

An NHL star just wanders in to a kid’s game on his time off? Not likely to be a true story.

It is not unusual for a pro team to practice at a rink where youth games also occur. A few times my Bantam team played at the Islanders practice rink and they took the ice for a Saturday morning skate after our game (if they had a home game Saturday night). They would look at out game in the way in.

These guys know Molly Seidel just like I’m dating Ariana Grande.

It's all on Strava