Molly Seidel wants you to know that she still struggles and even struggled at the Olympics: "I was bulimic in Tokyo."

Oh look, another LRC POS. 🙄

Oh, come on. Have you not known Molly long enough to see she spews a ton of BS like with the airplane guy or the dating app guy? Or how about the hugely suspicious fact that she says she was applying for jobs at Starbucks with numerous chronic injuries, just months prior to running her first marathon at the Olympic Trials and almost blasting the while field away? The fact that neither Molly nor Jon Green never having even raced a half marathon before? The East Africans are laughing at you for all the free passes you give Molly that you don't give them.

Who cares!! Does she want us to feel sorry for her?

How long have you known Molly? Do you talk to her often?

The rest of this post is weird and mostly incoherent.

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This is, of course, true. I really don't believe the airplane incident happened and the dating app screenshot was pretty obviously someone just trying to make conversation that she blew out of proportion.

She also loves to post sexual innuendo and beer shots which both scream immature cries for attention.

Interesting that no one posted something like this, or any of the other judgmental criticisms appearing in this thread, in the thread pointing out Tim Tollefson's recent discussions/social media postings regarding his eating disorder.

Greg seems normal compared to many a YouTuber, Instagrammer, and TikTok afficianados.

I hope you see this reply Neurodivergent but I've had a very similar experience in my adult life and it has taken years (and will continue to take time) to understand and process the ways ADHD effects my life. The idea of running taking us to a flow state is something I was crushed to lose when my career ended but I've realized since that it's more an escape than a solution. I had the exact same reaction to her stopping taking Adderall because of its effect on her training. If her experience is anything like mine, the benefits of medicine and treatment far outweigh whatever training concerns she might have. It also pains me to see the way negative comments clearly hurt her and partially think she should stop reading them but also know it would probably be impossible for me in her situation. I'm sympathetic to those who are ADHD skeptics and view stimulants as overprescribed etc. but I can say with certainty that my experience with ADHD is real and has had an effect on everything I've ever done in my life. Treatment is one of the best things to happen for me in my adult life and I feel sad just thinking back on my college running days and imagining what it must be like for someone whose life is so defined by running success and also struggles with disordered eating.

I want to add my experience and some discussion I've had with professionals/articles I've read that the ADHD brain doesn't process "success" the same way a typical brain would. For one, I always enjoyed good workouts/runs and the prospect of success way more than actual successes. I had significant successes in HS and college and always, without fail, struggled in the weeks and months after because the good dopamine feelings of feeling a big win/time coming in training was gone all at once after achieving it AND I struggled to find enjoyment in those successes. I think this has to do with brain chemistry and I had an added difficulty with successes where I didn't feel like it was my preparation that got me there, I cared more about doing things my way than getting a result. I can hardly imagine what it's like to win an Olympic medal because there's really nothing left to train for in a rewarding manner from there. I don't know if this would make sense to anyone who hasn't experienced it but I really feel for Molly and know I wouldn't handle her situation any better than she has. I only hope people close to her can step in and give her the help/support she needs, including taking away social media obligations/access if possible.

No one outside of letsrun knows or even cares who Seidel is. She's an average runner at best and will never amount to anything in the sport.

and this will be her future.

Yeah I have ADHD and honestly vyvanse calms my mind down even though I know it does probably moderately raise my heart rate. I trained on it all through college and ran a marathon on it without issues as far as I know,

i haven’t been running for the last year due to injury and some other life issues and my ADHD symptoms are the worst they’ve been since before I started medication. I’m trying to get the injury managed to the point that I can run again mainly so I can feel like my brain is working again.

Come on. She took bronze at the Olympics. Where does her 2:24 rank her on the US women's all time list?

Not if you are doing all the training you need to do to run at your fastest. Assuming you are eating a balanced, healthy diet(not the standard American diet as you describe), if you are running high mileage, or perhaps doing lower mileage with a lot of cross-training and resistance training, your body is likely settle at a weight that enables you to perform at your best.

Who?