Molly Seidel was running well at Western States. In the top ten for the first fifty-ish miles, racing where she knew she belonged. Then by mile sixty-two she was ready to quit, in pain, angry at herself, with thirty-eight miles left and nothing to race for competitively.

She ran them anyway.

This is a conversation about what those last twelve hours taught her that the first fifty never could have — about trail running, about herself, and about why finishing a race you're no longer competing in can be more meaningful than winning one.

Topics covered:

• What went wrong at Western States and why she kept going

• The ego death of being a rookie after winning an Olympic medal

• Whether trail can save itself from becoming what road racing already is

• The people in her corner — Kelly Newland, Cliff, Steph Howe

• What she'd say to the Molly of 2021 and 2024

• OCC and Javelina coming up this fall

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