“I would compulsively knock on things in specific patterns because you feel like you have some control over the universe. “With OCD, you just have this anxiety all the time and feel like you can’t control anything, so you develop patterns and behaviors,” she said. As a Foot Locker National Cross Country champion, expectations were high. Seidel struggled with OCD from a young age, but she said the disorder didn’t impact her running until she went to Notre Dame in the fall of 2012. I want to go out and be realistic, but not count myself out.” ‘I Just Felt Like Nothing Was Enough’ All of these women are really good and have the times. “Tenth to 20th range would be a good day for me. Keep an open mind and know how much it’s going to hurt, and be prepared for that amount of pain. “It’s going to be an unknown of what your body can do. “You never really know what it’s gonna be like until you get there,” Seidel told Runner’s World. It will be her debut at the distance, but she’s widely regarded as one of several wildcards who could make an impact. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playīut in 2020, Seidel is retaking control of the story-starting with the Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta this Saturday, February 29. She barely competed and got injured again. She came back to Notre Dame for a fifth year, citing unfinished business at the college level, but it was really because the sponsorship dollars weren’t there anymore. Seidel turned down the lucrative sponsorship opportunities to quietly enter treatment for her eating disorder.
The truth was, the fastest woman in the NCAA was struggling with depression and an obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifested itself in disordered eating. “You look like you’re dying,” Seidel remembers her friend saying. Olympic Track Trials from the stands at Hayward Field, where her Notre Dame teammate Dani Aragon gave her a reality check.
She was the top female distance runner in the NCAA with four national titles and the Olympic Trials on the horizon.īut instead of signing a splashy contract with a shoe company, Seidel was sidelined with a sacral stress fracture and watched the U.S. At the 2021 Olympic Marathon on August 7 in Tokyo, Seidel won bronze in her third marathon ever, running 2:27:46.įour years ago, Molly Seidel wasn’t just the next big thing. Editor’s note: On February 29, Molly Seidel made her first Olympic team by placing second at the Olympic Marathon Trials.
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