Molly Huddle article on Slate - She flew middle seat to ATL and raced in flats that were worn down

I was surprised that she was in middle seat as well. Perhaps she is not loyal to one airline so has not achieve "status".

Also, ATC paid for the flights. Maybe they had her flight Delta and again she has no points or status so she was a bit stuck. Still seems worth it to spend some extra money to get a little more leg room even if she is petite.

I am surprised that people are giving her crap about the shoe issue. How many Saucony plants are there in the world? If there are others outside of China, is there a special machine used for making her shoe?

It would be interesting to hear more about that just because I am interested in the shoe world (work retail at a store for a bit and used to follow the running shoe market like crazy).

That's pathetic on Molly's part, waiting until 5 weeks out from your goal race to buy a pair, buy way ahead of time in bulk

cloudcover wrote:

She had to run in shoes that already has 100 miles on them because of disruptions to the supply chain in China.

Editor's note. The poster is incorrect. Huddle wrote, "I also had to race on some shoes with maybe 100 more miles on them than I’d have liked, as the fresh pair of Saucony flats I ordered a few months ago were coming directly from the factory in China and production had already been shut down when I tried to do my usual pre-race order about five weeks out."

So she's throwing her sponsor (WHO PAYS HER BILLS) under the bus???

I’m not sponsored but I have probably 25 pairs of shoes and numerous unused ready in their boxes. If I were going to the trials I’d pay for first class. Sounds like Saucony is cheap and a crappy sponsor.

Jared Ward have the same self-inflicted problems?

rojo wrote:

cloudcover wrote:

She also had to sit in a middle seat for a flight. Wouldn't you plan ahead?

Sadly, I could imagine myself doing the same thing back in the day. When I go to book, all the window seats are taken and I'm too cheap to triple the price to go to 1st class.

Yeah, back in the day when you were one of the best runners in the country headed to the Olympic trials...

Wtf are you talking about? You and Molly Huddle have nothing in common when it comes to your athletic careers.

A better comparison would be that you can imagine yourself founding the figurative "middle seat" of running websites because you refuse to plan ahead enough to come up with a decent business plan and you are too cheap to hire an editor to proofread what you call articles.

Man, that edit button sure is handy. Would be cool if, you know, other posters could use it too. Like on every other forum i use on the internet.

She's 5'5" and 108 lbs, what's bad about a middle seat?

I'm a foot taller, more than twice the weight, have a 37" inseam, and have to sit at an angle in a regular coach seat. One time a guy offered to switch with me when he saw me struggling unsuccessfully to wedge myself into a middle seat on an Ohare to Dehli flight.

I'd love a middle seat I could actually fit in.

clyde the glide wrote:

She's 5'5" and 108 lbs, what's bad about a middle seat?

maybe she catches corona virus more easily there. In short flights seat doesn't matter and normally a runner can jump quite easily over others if she wanted to stretch or walk around during the flight.

When it comes to the shoes, I don't understand why elite athletes don't have spare pairs in stock at home. It's a race that takes place once in 4 years and you're not prepared.

Molly makes more excuses than I guy getting caught at stripper joint, by his wife

Is a middle seat on an airplane an excuse for running poorly now? This is a complete joke.

I've lost all respect for Molly Huddle now. She has excuses for everything and complains about everything. Maybe she's always been like this, but I've just seen a lot of examples this year of it.

She loved complaining about how unfair Nike shoes were and how people were just SPRINGING off the ground! What a complete joke.... Watch, she's getting beat not because of unfair shoes, but because she's just not as fast anymore. She was a multi-US champion on the track in 5k/10k, with the American record. She will not win the olympic trials this summer. Wouldn't be surprised if she's not top 3. And then she'll have something to complain about for that and make more excuses.

Are we really talking about a middle seat? wrote:

Is a middle seat on an airplane an excuse for running poorly now? This is a complete joke.

It's easy to spot the folks that didn't read the article. She was not using it as an excuse. All she said was "I doused myself in purell before getting in my middle seat." and all these oversized dudes with nothing better to do are harping on it like it's a big deal.

low life for life heartless wrote:

I think the excuse she was looking for was that the other women who beat her were fitter and better than her on that day.

I didn’t think she was talking about excuses. She was ask to write about traveling and the effects that the virus is having in her experiences.

For instance if shipments were coming in from China then she would have had a newer pair of shoes. And that despite the virus the flight was crowded so she had a middle seat.

You people sound like a bunch of jealous children looking for anything to criticize.

clyde the glide wrote:

She's 5'5" and 108 lbs, what's bad about a middle seat?

I'm a foot taller, more than twice the weight, have a 37" inseam, and have to sit at an angle in a regular coach seat. One time a guy offered to switch with me when he saw me struggling unsuccessfully to wedge myself into a middle seat on an Ohare to Dehli flight.

I'd love a middle seat I could actually fit in.

Plus she wasn't flying from Seattle to Atlanta. She was zipping down the east coast.