Molly Seidel's airplane story

ClaytonHammer wrote:

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.

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.

You’d be surprised. The family I married into is all up north in Minnesota. Many nhl players are just good ol boys from small towns in MN, WI, etc. It’s not uncommon at all to see current/former players at a rink.

Wow, there are many replies saying that she's lying. Children, this is why the MeToo movement is in full force.

After reading this thread I have the solution. Everyone on LetsRun makes over $250k/year so we should all band together to put forward a large reward for the guy to come forward with proof that the interaction occurred (plane ticket, training plan, etc.). A good bit of cash should make up for any public embarrassment he might face. The only issue is that if the guy is on LetsRun, that means he makes over $250k/year so he doesn't need anyone's money.

high school xc coach wrote:

Im not asking wrote:

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.

agreed - regardless of whether the story is or isn't true (and admitting that there are are *some* sexist tendencies on this board), I'm pretty sure reactions would be similar if it were a male elite posting that story

Toilet Poster wrote:

After reading this thread I have the solution. Everyone on LetsRun makes over $250k/year so we should all band together to put forward a large reward for the guy to come forward with proof that the interaction occurred (plane ticket, training plan, etc.). A good bit of cash should make up for any public embarrassment he might face. The only issue is that if the guy is on LetsRun, that means he makes over $250k/year so he doesn't need anyone's money.

Are letsrun posters really flying with a public airline?

Definitely a boring day today….. this story probably happened but has been explained only in Molly’s perception. I believe she believes it to be true and has formed a memory validating her own reflection. However, the other passenger likely has his own perception of the event and would likely think of things entirely differently. Just another example of simple primate behavior. Humans are really not that sophisticated.

It could be true. it depends on where the plane was going. If she was going from Boston to Flagstaff, it's likely she could have been sitting next to a runner.

The thing is, whether it is true or not (and btw if it's not, then that's super annoying of Molly to post that on twitter. And it did feel like the story wasn't true fwiw)--these type of things happen with men all the time. There's just a ton of mansplaining everywhere--it's a real thing and men need to check themselves a bit better.

If it is true, she should have smacked him with her Olympic medal.

That is hilarious. She should absolutely have busted him on it. But I think that it has been completely misanalyzed where the commenters were saying that he was man-splaining. Yes, he was, but he was unusual here in actually deriving his advice directly from a woman (from Seidel's training), which he held as the model for how she, his seatmate, should train. So, maybe he was really woman-splaining, accepting the practices of a woman as a model for how a person should train.

malmo wrote:

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

Well you don't even spell well, or did you mean to do that?

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

That guy was me.

I knew who she was the whole time. I just wanted to see what would happen if I pretended like I didn't. Sure enough, she got on social media and put me on blast like that.

I sure as hell didn't post anything about how she sounds like a Mack truck when she snores and how they could hear her 6 rows away and how she kept us all up the entire flight. .

Why didn't I? Because I'm nice Molly. You're a jerk and want all the attention!! Molly Molly Molly!!

Proof or it didn't happen.

LOL. That's prob why she didn't share who she is. Cause then you can't drool and have to mind your ps and qs and also you gotta keep talking then just to be nice.

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.

So this guy is saying an anonymous man with Molly Seidel's training plan on his phone is more knowledgeable than the woman next to him who SHARED THAT TRAINING PLAN with him, implemented it and won an Olympic bronze medal in front of our very own eyes. This is what drives women batty.

This board in general loves Molly for being a low-key grinder but then can't even be biased for her when it might injure the pride of some no-name man.

Alien 3242 wrote:

malmo wrote:

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

Well you don't even spell well, or did you mean to do that?

I was worse. I'm pretty sure that it was her in the race between Chavez and Gladwell, and she sat back easy and then just blasted the field, looking great on the last lap to win easy in maybe 4:45. Her name sounded familiar but I had forgotten who she was and commented here that the winner looked really solid and could probably run maybe sub 4:30.

Got it wrong. It was Molly's sister, Izzy (?) Seidel in the Gladwell-Chavez race. For the name, I'm going on what I heard the commentator saying.

She ran 4:54 for the win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFFP5Y7DpFA

This guy gets at least part of the psychology of guys, namely, that they are constantly trying to show how competent and in control and knowledge, etc. with others. I constantly get this stuff from other guys telling me about stuff I know ten times more about because they don't want to be inferior in any way to men or women around them.

I doubted the story when I read the tweet too, and I happen to be a female and a huge fan of hers. Seems like most people would have laughed and identified themselves. Unless maybe the guy was super annoying and she just wanted to be left alone. That said, I've had guys give me unwanted advice about training so many times, so that part is believable.

The flight was most likely from Boston since was in Boston throwing a first pitch not long ago.

This story reminds me of the T-shirt below:

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