Seidel is a four-time state cross-country champion and a six-time track champion (16 meters, ’09-11), needing one more title to tie Suzy Favor Hamilton’s state prep record. After Finn took an early lead from the gun, opening up a gap of eight seconds, Seidel patiently reeled her in, delivering the coup de grace up the course’s definitive hill with a just over a half-mile to go, winning in 17:21.4 to Finn's 17:23.9 for the 5k distance. Seidel lived up to the hype, again besting Finn, but this time in much more dramatic fashion. It exposes every flaw in a public way, and is tough when the results don’t seem to match up with how hard you’re working.Media Platforms Design TeamUniversity Lake School in Hartland, Wisconsin, hadn’t lost a meet the entire season, and though her regional teammate Erin Finn of West Bloomfield, Michigan, was the top returner from last year’s race, Seidel had run uncontested at the Midwest Regional meet two weeks before.
Getting back into form after a long period of time off is already humbling trying to do that while also preparing to race a pro marathon feels like standing on stage at graduation in my underwear. “Lost contact with the second pack after about 5 miles and ran 1–2 mins slower than I was going for. “Went into the US Half champs hoping to get one last hard effort in before Nagoya, and it was pretty damn humbling,” she wrote. Although the race was an improvement, she wrote on Instagram that she wasn’t happy. At the half marathon championships, with the pulled glute, she finished eighth in 1:13:08. Seidel raced a half marathon in November in Boston, finishing 16th in 1:16:22. I just want it to be this one linear, upward trajectory. People expect me to be fully cured, fully healed, be an advocate for this stuff.
“But it’s a huge sense of shame and a sense that I’ve just let a ton of people down. “I’m working as hard as I can to come out the other side,” she said at the time.
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