“Life has a funny way of giving you what you need before you think you’re ready for it,” Seidel tells CNN Sport, weeks out from the fifth marathon of her career in Boston next month.
Having taken to the start line of her debut marathon in Atlanta hoping to place in the top 20 – with the prospect of competing, let alone medaling, at the Olympics a remote thought – she’s the first to admit the race “blew away all of my expectations.” That was during the US Olympic trials when Seidel, competing in her first ever marathon, stunned the field to place second and qualify for the US team.įast-forward to 2022 and, three marathons later, the 27-year-old Seidel can now call herself an Olympic medalist and the fastest American woman ever at the New York City Marathon. Mastering the art of marathon running is a lifetime pursuit for some, but it seemed to take Molly Seidel roughly two-and-a-half hours on one windswept morning in Atlanta a couple of years ago.
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