Molly Seidel's airplane story

You have to wear masks on planes. Could explain it.

What do y’all think about everyone calling this “mansplaining”? I personally disagree; but I’m curious to hear other thoughts

chompersh wrote:

You have to wear masks on planes. Could explain it.

Masks ruin everything. But obviously this guy didn’t ask Molly her name.

Sometimes people get ultra immersed in stats and ignore all else. Anyways, I know a guy who mustve been on that plane. He told me, "I'm looking for Molly. I've been searching everywhere and I can't seem to find Molly Molly Molly Molly." He kept saying Molly. Seemed obsessive.

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

boredjogging wrote:

how does someone take the time to analyze someone's exact training AND somehow find out that your airplane seatmate runs...without realizing that it's that person?

Because molly was sitting on the plane thinking about how she could become relevant and made up this whole thing. She's not that famous. Running isn't that popular.

Who dis?

This is a weird story to make up.

Bebop boys wrote:

This is a weird story to make up.

It's an even weirder story to be true.

Dude supposedly did an in depth analysis of her training, then he supposedly had it "on his phone," then he was sitting next to her, then he brought up running, then he didn't realize it was her, then he felt compelled to pull out his phone to show her his analysis? Then she didn't bother to tell him it was her training?

That is an awful lot of unlikely events. I think she's making it up for likes and retweets

jdufurhdhdd wrote:

Bebop boys wrote:

This is a weird story to make up.

It's an even weirder story to be true.

Dude supposedly did an in depth analysis of her training, then he supposedly had it "on his phone," then he was sitting next to her, then he brought up running, then he didn't realize it was her, then he felt compelled to pull out his phone to show her his analysis? Then she didn't bother to tell him it was her training?

That is an awful lot of unlikely events. I think she's making it up for likes and retweets

Maybe the guy is someone from this thread or one of the 16,100 views from the youtube video this thread starts off with. Not so hard to believe.

jdufurhdhdd wrote:

Bebop boys wrote:

This is a weird story to make up.

It's an even weirder story to be true.

Dude supposedly did an in depth analysis of her training, then he supposedly had it "on his phone," then he was sitting next to her, then he brought up running, then he didn't realize it was her, then he felt compelled to pull out his phone to show her his analysis? Then she didn't bother to tell him it was her training?

That is an awful lot of unlikely events. I think she's making it up for likes and retweets

Well, if it's true, the guy is clearly a fan of hers so he'll either see or hear about her tweet and will come forward as being the guy. Anyone that would be so obsessed to do what she said, he said he did, would be happy to get their 15 minutes. In fact, there's a 96.37% likelihood that someone that into running and that obsessed with it is probably a poster here.

This is a shelburrito of a tale.

landon wrote:

What do y’all think about everyone calling this “mansplaining”? I personally disagree; but I’m curious to hear other thoughts

Well, he assumed he knew more about running. And he assumed she wasn't already doing high mileage.

I do think if Molly were a guy of the same age and slight build, this dude would have asked him about his training before he went straight to giving him advice on how he could improve.

Maybe it was her coach but they both had on masks. 🤷

Kind of reminds me of the Wesley Korir anecdote with the woman telling the story of his Chicago breakout performance from the citizen's race while he was changing a lightbulb.

Korir’s favorite maintenance man moment came shortly after his adventure in the Chicago Marathon. He was fixing a light for a woman from Chicago, who started talking about seeing the Chicago Marathon and this amazing runner who started five minutes behind and passed most of the other runners.

He eventually got down off the ladder and told her why he was laughing.

“That was me,” he said.

I do wonder how the subject moved to high mileage training on Seidel's airplane trip.

DudeBro: I can't wait to get off this airplane and go for a run.

MS: Cool! I know what you mean. I'm a runner too.

DB: That's great. you look like you'd be a good runner. I'm actually training for a marathon right now. I hope the weather is good tomorrow for my long run.

MS: How has your training been going? Have you ever run a marathon before?

DB: It's going really well, thanks. This will be my ninth. Have you ever run one?

MS: Yeah. I recently finished my third.

DB: Nice. Did you get set a P.R.?

MS: No. I was a couple of minutes slower than I ran in my second marathon.

DB: You should really try increasing your mileage. Here, check out this spreadsheet...

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.

Undoubtedly this is a fake story.

However , were it real , perhaps the guy is a coach? Often a coach will know 50x more about training than the athlete. Not all athletes make great coaches.

Even so, my bet is on this being a figment of her imagination.

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.

Fast Women is a hangout for Women that have spent their lives being rejected by Men. I am a Woman.

Fox News is for the extreme right. Fast Women is for rejected Women.

Lars Sqweebles wrote:

Undoubtedly this is a fake story.

However , were it real , perhaps the guy is a coach? Often a coach will know 50x more about training than the athlete. Not all athletes make great coaches.

Even so, my bet is on this being a figment of her imagination.

I vote extremely improbable that this happened.