Jared Ward, Sara Hall, Molly Seidel, and Lindsay Flanagan are relishing the opportunity for a major marathon in the midst of an uncertain year.
, her debut at the distance, but the uncertainty of whether the Olympics would be happening amidst the pandemic caused her some anxiety in the spring. By the summer, when she knew the Games wouldn’t happen until 2021, she began training for a 10,000-meter race on the track in July.
The day before the race, she was doing a shakeout with a friend. As Seidel did strides across a parking lot, the friend’s 70-pound puppy got excited, ran at Seidel, and knocked her over. She landed hard, suffered a separated shoulder, and had to miss a week of training.Once she recovered from the dog mishap, Seidel went to Flagstaff, Arizona, to train at altitude for London, where she put in 125-mile weeks and her training was much more consistent than it was before the Trials. “I love coming out to Flag,” she said. “I love the fact that you have to work so much harder at altitude. The times aren’t going to be quite as fast, but [you have] the ability to do hard long runs on the dirt roads. It helps me get in a better mindset. For a buildup I really want to be able to focus.”She has spent time training on a 1.5-mile loop in Flagstaff, and she feels experienced. “I came from racing track 10Ks,” she said. “It doesn’t get much more tedious than that.”Seidel isn’t sure if she is in PR shape in only her second marathon. “The big goal for the fall was to get in another marathon and prepare myself as well as I can for the Olympic Games,” she said. “Go into this race and really go hard and mentally stay tough and try and stay with some of these packs that are forming. Obviously I’m not going to be up with the sub-2:20 women. But I don’t want to sell myself short.”Seidel and her sister, who share an apartment, recently moved from Boston to a large space across the Charles River in Cambridge. When Seidel called movers, the dispatcher recognized her name. “She was telling me all about how she’s run Boston and she’s so excited to see me run London,” Seidel said. “I’m like, ‘That’s really cool, also, can we figure out this moving thing?’”
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