Molly Seidel's Next Race is the "Women's 6km Festival"

As if Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers only ran 2 marathons a year and never any shorter distances or races that weren't world marathon majors.

All I know is that Molly has an f-ing Olympic bronze medal.

Molly has been "coming back" since forever. What happened to her magical training plan she concocted with her Coach Jon Green of very high mileage where Molly says she got to be a super marathoner by just running a lot? Instead, now we just see Molly doing lower and lower distance races and pretty soon she will just be posting photos of finisher medals from local 5ks.

Bronze is the second loser. Only winning counts.

OBVIOUSLY.

Thank you for recognizing this. Why wouldn't she accept appearance fees for being an Olympic medalist? I mean come on you guys can't honestly be this dense.

So you are saying that Molly is just exploiting feminism to make a profit for herself?

you think only women olympians take appearance fees to capitalize on their fame?

I’ve never understood the incels on this forum. Seidel is a little annoying, yes, but why the incessant 💩posting? Flash in the pan? Perhaps. Gutty performance? Without a doubt. Let’s see what happens in the build up to the next Olympics. Maybe her coach doesn’t really know what he’s doing? Let her be.

Not a flash in the pan. 3X NCAA champion. Came back some years later to make Oly team. Placed 3rd. Top 6 at London 2020 and NYC 2021. Even though the marathons were in a relatively short time (21 months), they stand on their own. Add the NCAA titles from half a decade earlier--those are not flash in the pan credentials.

Ok. So what?

Make Olympians take a higher road by exploiting cancer to make a profit like with Lance Armstrong and all his bogus "appearance fees" for his own "charity".

So what? Are you all forgetting the magical transformation of Molly Seidel from an out of work Starbucks barista with claimed numerous injuries that Coach Jon Green then "fantastically" turned into one of the fastest marathoners in America in just a few months before Olympic Trials when neither Molly or Jon had even ran a full let alone a half marathon ever between both of them?

And let's not forget that Coach Jon Green wasn't even training Molly for marathon racing but for the 10k on the track and they were simply running high mileage and Molly was simply doing the marathons, like the Olympic Trials, for training for the 10k?

None of this looks suspicious to you with the smaller and smaller distances Molly does now after USADA and WADA denied her TUEs?

Didn't Conner Mantz just run a 1500?

But it’s super cool when Connor Mantz runs a variety of distances, right?

Is there an echo in the room? Mantz has recent notable results in prestigious races to back up his running, he can do whatever he wants. Molly cannot because she has not been performing for a long time.

And why in the world is the "Women's 6k Festival" awarding a national USAF title for the 6k road race? Was 5k too much to ask and much more common, which already has a national title everyone knows about? I never even knew there was a 6k road race national title specific to women only and it looks like it was created solely by this event a couple of years. Absolutely no prestige or history to this 6k road race national title. Might as well make it a 5.1km national title because we should just water down what it means to be a national champion, right?

And what in the world Canton, OH? I never even heard of the place. Sounds like a city in China.

Lol “is there an echo in the room”

two people expressed the same sentiment at exactly the same time by pure coincidence, and you attribute it to copycatism, when the reality is that the sentiment is more reasonable than the woman hate you are trying to espouse.

So what does that make you?

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Lord knows there's too much to unpack here...

1) Re: your 5k comment, How do you feel about the Men's 8k? Was 10k too much to ask for them? Who cares? She's a distance runner. It's a distance race. Why does a woman you don't know racing in a city you've never heard of ruin your day?

2) Re: racing lower distances. Bet you think Kiera D'Amato is an idiot too. Races almost every single USATF road distance and seems to win a bunch of them, yet is undoubtedly one of the strongest U.S. marathoners. Maybe winning a bunch of prize money and practicing racing on shorter distances gives her a helpful edge when she races the full. Or maybe you think Molly should just go run a marathon every day for the rest of her life until she wins gold so she's not a "loser."

3) Re your odd hatred of Jon Green... Dude was a big part in a U.S. Bronze. Sure, Molly has gone through some rough patches, but he saw her talent from NCAA's, helped Molly believe in herself again, and played a part in getting her to an Olympic medal. That alone is one of the best coaching accomplishments in U.S. distance running ever. Maybe they've earned some rough patches. Or maybe she should fire Jon and hire you so you can say things like "toughen up" and "run faster."

Last thought: Maybe, just maybe, trying the 6k will be a fun distance for her that (a) gets her back into a racing environment, (b) earns her some cash, (c) fulfills some contract requirements, (d) promotes a cause she's passionate about, and (e) gives her some confidence en route to the Marathon Trials. But yea you're right, those are stupid reasons.