“ ‘You can go out and compete even when the conditions aren’t optimal. “London was big for me because it reinforced in my mind, ‘You deserve to be here with the top marathoners in the world,’ ' she said.

Running through Storm Alex’s chilly rain on a day when only 18 women finished, Seidel bettered her trials time by more than two minutes in 2 hours, 25 minutes, and 13 seconds. The unorthodox course for the 2020 London Marathon meant Molly Seidel ran 19 laps around St. It might not be the most ideal thing, but by God I’m going to make the most of it because this is the only thing I’ve got.” Instead, I chose to look at it as, pretty much no one in the world gets this opportunity right now.

“I have only seven weeks to prepare and this is so different from what a normal marathon would be. “I could have looked at it as, this is going to be the worst thing in the world,” said Seidel. So Seidel adopted an approach of “embracing the chaos,” which is what she did when she accepted a short-notice entry for the London Marathon, which had been deferred from April to October, and ended up placing sixth in only her second attempt at the distance. Then last year all of that went to hell in a handbasket so quickly.” In pro running we look at our year, we have set dates on the calendar. “Not letting things pass by, because you never know when you’re going to get another chance. “More than anything the pandemic taught a lot of us about taking advantage of every opportunity that you can get,” said the 26-year-old Cambridge resident.

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