Molly S's Next Marathon?

Her name is Seidel, it's as easy to spell correctly as Huddle.

Make hay while the sun shines! She should do Boston. Appearance fees would dwarf the prize money and Puma has a new US HQ in Somerset, MA. BAA can tweak the field to give her an advantage and, if she wins, she becomes legend, cements her legacy, and will be drowning in high dollar marketing deals for personal care products, consumer goods, beer, food products, etc.

Worlds? Meh. No one outside of hardcore track fans care or even remember who won.

Seidl is running world champs next year. She told so on the citius mag podcast.

She announced on the Citius podcast today that she's going to take her World's spot. She also took a dig at J Gault saying she wasn't going to let Letsrun be the first to announce it (he apparently texted her before NYC).

As an aside, I cannot stand the two interviewers when they do that cross-over podcast (with run your mouth). So unbelievably shallow, in form and substance. And no good follow-up questions. She broke ribs, okay, who is going to ask how? The questioning when letsrun interviews isn't much better, but once in a while at least the light bulb goes off and one of the three guys here asks a useful follow-up. If letsrun could just clean up all the non-running anti-vax, dog-whistle stuff it might pass as an actual running site.

flyoverstaterunner wrote:

She announced on the Citius podcast today that she's going to take her World's spot. She also took a dig at J Gault saying she wasn't going to let Letsrun be the first to announce it (he apparently texted her before NYC).

As an aside, I cannot stand the two interviewers when they do that cross-over podcast (with run your mouth). So unbelievably shallow, in form and substance. And no good follow-up questions. She broke ribs, okay, who is going to ask how? The questioning when letsrun interviews isn't much better, but once in a while at least the light bulb goes off and one of the three guys here asks a useful follow-up. If letsrun could just clean up all the non-running anti-vax, dog-whistle stuff it might pass as an actual running site.

Tend to agree, not much of a fan of the crossover. But it's no secret that Molly is friends with Chris Chavez, so she probably told him before that she didn't want to reveal how she broke them. Not really any of our business anyways, since it didn't force her to withdraw or have a bad race.

I do wish they would've asked her how fast she thinks she can run. They touched on the AR and the opportunity to do a flat and fast course, but it doesn't seem high on her list of priorities. 2:24 in NYC has to be worth a few minutes faster in Chicago.

I bruised my ribs before while running. I can imagine why she doesn't want to share. It's usually related to tripping and falling and is kind of embarrassing. Maybe she tripped while running and superman landed on the concrete like I did when I bruised my ribs, or maybe she was goofing around with friends and slipped and landed hard.

She has had a couple of freak injuries in the past. Also, bones are easier to break after eating disorders.

Hope she runs Boston and the champs but takes a well-deserved break now.

flyoverstaterunner wrote:

She announced on the Citius podcast today that she's going to take her World's spot. She also took a dig at J Gault saying she wasn't going to let Letsrun be the first to announce it (he apparently texted her before NYC).

Anyone else confused by the apparent extreme "s*** show" Molly describes her training for the NYC marathon as. I follow her on Strava of course and it looks like she had one down week... when she still ran 85 miles.

Kinda reminds me of the smartest girls in class who always loudly proclaims how she totally failed that test... before doing better than everyone

Listening to previous podcasts, it sounds like she's friends with David Mellie rather than Chris Chavez. I think Citius just has better reach and production so it makes sense for Mellie to do the crossover when he gets a big name guest.

I'll be interested to see what she does next. I think she's the most valuable star in distance running right now. She's smashing all her races, Olympic medallist, great backstory, handles media incredibly well, and good socials. And she's American when counts for a lot. She's a marketing department's dream, whatever Puma paid to get her before the Olympics is looking like a huge bargain right now

Agree 100%. I’m sure Puma is/will be taking care of her in the future but still have to imagine they got her at a huge bargain with the timing of the signing

Well, now that we have cleared up at least half of my question (Molly will run Champs – no, not in Kingston) what about the other half: a marathon before July 18 or just ramp up for the big one?

I agree, the interviewers could be more professional. They sound like a couple of frat guys chillin’ over brewskis (and BTW, Molly really knows her beers! But the idea that she would drink Sapporo after her Bronze is a bit disappointing…Course if you’re in Sapporo, that’s what’s going).

She sounds like her training was really set back. If she ran 2:24 after a bad injury at least they could have asked what she thought she could run on that course on the day if she had been healthy.

And what does she have against Jon Gault? He shows a lot more professionalism than these two wannabees.

Probably more something against LRC rather than Gault in particular. And you know why she might have something against LRC

U.S. women, 10000m to Marathon is not like U.S. men, 10000m to Marathon. None of this all eggs in one basket with U.S. women, 10000m to Marathon. Over the past fifty years for U.S. men: Frank Shorter, Meb Keflezighi and Galen Rupp. It could be anyone for U.S. women. No need to worry about how this U.S. woman is training or how that U.S. woman is racing. Relax. A U.S. women will be racing for a medal 10000m to Marathon. It does not matter which woman.

U.S. women 10000m to Marathon, not like the ... wrote:

U.S. women, 10000m to Marathon is not like U.S. men, 10000m to Marathon. None of this all eggs in one basket with U.S. women, 10000m to Marathon. Over the past fifty years for U.S. men: Frank Shorter, Meb Keflezighi and Galen Rupp. It could be anyone for U.S. women. No need to worry about how this U.S. woman is training or how that U.S. woman is racing. Relax. A U.S. women will be racing for a medal 10000m to Marathon. It does not matter which woman.

Google Translate's gotta up its game...

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AXC wrote:

flyoverstaterunner wrote:

She announced on the Citius podcast today that she's going to take her World's spot. She also took a dig at J Gault saying she wasn't going to let Letsrun be the first to announce it (he apparently texted her before NYC).

Anyone else confused by the apparent extreme "s*** show" Molly describes her training for the NYC marathon as. I follow her on Strava of course and it looks like she had one down week... when she still ran 85 miles.

Kinda reminds me of the smartest girls in class who always loudly proclaims how she totally failed that test... before doing better than everyone

Humblebragger? I know others here have posted she was like this at ND. I personally am not judging her either way.

Sounds to me like the "s*** show" she's talking about was more on the mental side. Must be exhausting to return home and be a celebrity with your phone blowing up.

overwhelmed wrote:

Sounds to me like the "s*** show" she's talking about was more on the mental side. Must be exhausting to return home and be a celebrity with your phone blowing up.

It would still be cool to be famous. It opens doors and gets you connections you otherwise wouldn't have.

robert678 wrote:

I bruised my ribs before while running. I can imagine why she doesn't want to share. It's usually related to tripping and falling and is kind of embarrassing. Maybe she tripped while running and superman landed on the concrete like I did when I bruised my ribs, or maybe she was goofing around with friends and slipped and landed hard.

But she goes on in the interview to say that she tripped while running the next week and got whiplash that also hampered her training.

The cracked rib thing really bugs me too and now I'd really like to know how she cracked them.

I'm sure the interviewer would have asked so she must have explicitly said that the question was off limits... but if you don't want people to know how you cracked them, why even bring it up at all?

And in the end none of this seemed to impact her performance so there's no need for her to bring up any of these issues... the irrationality of it all is what's eating at me.