“I have done so much running on the Boston course,” Seidel, 27, said in Boston on April 15 at the elite athlete press conference.
She also knows the course well, having lived in Boston for almost five years before she bought a home in Flagstaff, Arizona, last April. (She delivered again, finishing fourth in 2:24:42, the fastest time by an American on the course.)Īnd now, for the 2022 Boston Marathon, she’s a top contender-even though she’s been a marathoner for only about two years.Īdding to her favorite status isn’t just her ability to compete over the distance. To review: In her first three attempts at 26.2, she exceeded all expectations-she was second in her debut at the Olympic Trials in Atlanta, finished sixth in 2020 in London in 2:25:13 in her second marathon, and won the Olympic bronze medal in Sapporo in oppressive heat and humidity in her third.īy the time she lined up in New York last fall, she was far from an underdog. Molly Seidel starts her fifth marathon, Boston, on Monday.
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