I really didn’t know where I was headed.” “I just hadn’t gotten much going, and I was struggling with injuries. “It’s kind of funny, because at that point of my career, I was wondering if I was going to be doing this much longer,” she says. Back then, she had been hampered by injuries, was still focused on racing 10,000 meters on the track, and hadn’t even considered running in the Olympic marathon trials. It exposes every flaw in a public way, and is tough when the results don’t seem to match up with how hard you’re working.Two years ago, Molly Seidel not only wasn’t on a path to becoming a world-class marathoner, she hadn’t even raced a half marathon yet.

Getting back into form after a long period of time off is already humbling trying to do that while also preparing to race a pro marathon feels like standing on stage at graduation in my underwear. “Lost contact with the second pack after about 5 miles and ran 1–2 mins slower than I was going for. “Went into the US Half champs hoping to get one last hard effort in before Nagoya, and it was pretty damn humbling,” she wrote. Although the race was an improvement, she wrote on Instagram that she wasn’t happy. At the half marathon championships, with the pulled glute, she finished eighth in 1:13:08.

Seidel raced a half marathon in November in Boston, finishing 16th in 1:16:22. I just want it to be this one linear, upward trajectory.

People expect me to be fully cured, fully healed, be an advocate for this stuff. “But it’s a huge sense of shame and a sense that I’ve just let a ton of people down. “I’m working as hard as I can to come out the other side,” she said at the time.

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