Disordered eating nearly derailed her career, but Molly Seidel is ready to reclaim her running story. NEDAWeek
She told a friend about her bulimia in order to keep herself accountable, and by the time Matt Sparks took over the program in the fall of 2014, SeidelSeidel unexpectedly won the NCAA 10,000-meter title during her junior year, becoming Notre Dame’s first-ever individual national champion in women’s track and field. And that’s when all of her anxieties started pouring into running.
,” Seidel said. “You think you’re pushing the limits in a reasonable way, but now I realize in the eating realm, I wasn’t eating the amount I needed to fuel the training. You’re just burning up all of your fuel stores, and once you get to the edge of that cliff and go off, it’s a long way back.” In 2018, she was out from July to December with a hip injury that resulted in surgery and residual nagging pain. Today, she estimates she has about five to six months of healthy training under her.
It’s one thing to rehab a stress fracture. It’s far more work to dig into the mental and emotional “why’s” behind the eating disorder that facilitated the injury. “Your long-term health is more important than running a fast 5K three months from now,” she said. “For people who are right in the middle of it, that’s the worst thing. It’s going to take a lot of time. I’m probably going to deal with it for the rest of my life. You have to treat it with the gravity that it demands.”
Saucony was one of the few shoe companies that stuck around after Seidel went back to school and offered her a more modest contract in 2017 when she graduated. She moved to Boston and joined Saucony’s sponsored group, the, though she recently left to train under Georgetown alum Jon Green, a fellow former member. She also gets advice from Sparks, who she calls her “second dad” after coaching her at Notre Dame.
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