Over a three-hour conversation at a coffee shop in 2019, the pair talked about Seidel’s career. Like Seidel, Green had trained with the Freedom Track Club in Boston. She took six months off, eased back into running the next six months then rolled the dice by leaving her team and forging an athlete-coaching partnership with Jon Green. “Somebody described my hip as looking like I fell out of a 10-story building.” “I felt that was a pretty realistic diagnosis at the time,” said Seidel, who now trains out of Flagstaff, Ariz. In the summer of 2018, after running for a professional team in Boston, she was diagnosed with a broken hip and underwent an experimental bone-graft surgery.Ī doctor said she had a 50-50 chance of running again at an elite level. But she battled demons in South Bend., Ind., too, fighting an eating disorder that led to low bone density and injuries. Her college career took her to Notre Dame, where she won four national collegiate championships. In 2011, her senior year at University Lake High School, she sped across the Balboa Park course to win the Foot Locker Cross Country Championship. But you can still go out, race hard and achieve big things.”

The marathon will pass right by it on Monday.“I guess people can see that my life’s been a little messy,” Seidel, 27. That hardware store that Jon worked at before making his name as a coach, that was Green's Hardware - his dad's shop in Wellesley, at mile 14.6 on the marathon route. 'I remember growing up and hearing about my neighbors running the Boston Marathon, and always thinking - similarly to Molly - I can't wait to race this, and one day hopefully I will,' Green said.Īfter triumph on the world stage, they'll return to the place where their story started. 'I'm just really pumped that I finally get to do THE marathon.' 'I have dreamed of running Boston since I was a kid,' Seidel said. A long awaited first for runner and coach. Eighteen months later, she was on the podium in Tokyo wearing a bronze medal around her neck.Īnd now - Boston. 'We had talked a lot before I started coaching her, what she liked about training, what I liked about training, and a lot of those things were pretty similar,' Green said.īarely four months later, Molly finished second in her very first Marathon, the 2020 Olympic trials.

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