New York City Marathon

Molly Seidel has run a lot of loops.

Four loops on a course that wove through Atlanta in the Olympic trials when she qualified for the Olympic Games in her first-ever marathon of March 2020. Nineteen loops in October 2020 as part of the elite-only London Marathon that circled Buckingham Palace (again, and again, and again). And the three loops of the Olympic marathon course in Sapporo, Japan, when she won a bronze medal.

“Doing a point-to-point is going to be wild for me!” she said, referring to the , which this week she announced she would run. It will be her most conventional 26.2 mile race thus far.

She chose the Nov. 7 race out of a packed fall schedule. Marathons in Boston, London, Los…