While the setbacks took a toll, Seidel tried to soldier on. She calls it a “comedy of errors for two years.” Once she got into a different dorm, Seidel endured a string of other maladies: a stress fracture in her fibula, then another in her tibia. was kind of a nightmare-it was three or four months of being the sickest I’ve ever been.” “And I think people in the finishing chute thought I had tuberculosis or something. “I was coughing up blood on the start line at nationals,” Seidel says. It was incredible to run 26.2 miles and not hit a silent spot along the whole course.Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playīut there’s a footnote to that 217 th place finish, and to the whole 2012 season. Finally, thank you to everyone out there cheering yesterday. And for putting me in the greatest pair of shoes a marathoner could ask for. Thank you for supporting me regardless of whether I was injured or healthy. Thank you for helping me get to the line healthy and fit, and for being just as dumb as I am to think I could go out and compete in the marathon Olympic trials. Thank you to my coach & friend Jon Green.

These are the people that drove me to XC meets, made me PBJs, picked me up when I fell, and now get to share this incredible joy with me. Thank you to my family and friends for coming to Atlanta to support me, and for supporting me in all the other less-glamorous moments. It was an honor to race in the deepest field in marathon OTs history many of these women are the heroes I grew up cheering for, and I’m continually inspired by the greatness of the women I’m surrounded by. Thank you to all the amazing women competing yesterday. Logistically managing that was a feat and you somehow pulled it off. Thank you + for putting on an incredible race. I can’t put into words the happiness, gratitude, and sheer shock I’m feeling right now but I’ll try.

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