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Marathoner Molly Seidel on Taking Adversity in Stride
Molly Seidel was supposed to be in Japan this summer for the Olympics, but that’s not happening due to the global impact of COVID-19. Fortunately, the 25-year-old decorated track athlete from Wisconsin is used to curveballs. Sometimes, they’re bad, like when an eating disorder led to osteopenia, which resulted in a hip injury that required surgery in 2018. Sometimes, they’re good, like when she decided to run a marathon for the first time ever—at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, where she finished second and punched her (now delayed) ticket to Tokyo. She’s taking the postponement exactly as a runner should: in stride. — as told to Ashley Mateo Molly Seidel…
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Retail continues to charge back, this time in the U.K. But clothing, fuel sales lag
Our mission to help you navigate the new normal is fueled by subscribers. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Positive news out of the United Kingdom: Retail sales haven’t just rebounded from the horror show of lockdown; they’ve already surpassed the U.K.’s pre-pandemic-lockdown levels. According to July figures released Friday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), retail sales volumes grew by 3.6{ce8ce7cc98bffdc4302011057a79600ea02c464c5536f1477c12acdb8bd79c00} month on month. That may be small compared with the 13.9{ce8ce7cc98bffdc4302011057a79600ea02c464c5536f1477c12acdb8bd79c00} growth seen in June and the 12{ce8ce7cc98bffdc4302011057a79600ea02c464c5536f1477c12acdb8bd79c00} growth in May, but those were increases from a very low base, and July’s boost now means volumes are 3{ce8ce7cc98bffdc4302011057a79600ea02c464c5536f1477c12acdb8bd79c00} higher than they were in February, before…
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