Seidel has also dressed as a Frenchman running with a loaf of bread for a Bastille Day race in Milwaukee and she wore a doughnut costume on the track for National Doughnut Day.īut it’s her Turkey Day task that has attracted national attention in a country hungry for uplifting stories. “There’s few things that bring me more joy than getting to chick guys while I’m wearing a costume.”īeing a turkey chick made it even better. “A guy getting passed by a girl is called being chicked,” Seidel said. While passing a male runner, Seidel overheard one of his friends on the sideline tell him, “Oh, you just got passed by a turkey. On Thanksgiving Day 2016, she was top turkey – as well as top female finisher – in the Berbee Derby in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, with a time of 34 minutes, 29 seconds. “We show up and all these other people are there to race-race and we’re the only ones in costume,” Seidel said. With Seidel donning feathers, her sister Izzy was decked out as an elf for the small Wisconsin race. “That was such a big, intense experience,” said the 26-year-old Wisconsin native, who also won three NCAA titles on the track, “that it seemed like a lot of fun to just go out and run a race while wearing a children’s turkey costume.” She did it the first time when she was fresh off winning the 2015 NCAA cross country title for Notre Dame. “I’ll be the fastest known turkey impersonator.”Īs casually as some people dress a turkey, Seidel dresses as a turkey. Olympic team in the marathon.Īctually, turkeys can run up to 25 miles per hour. “I want to be the Fastest Known Turkey,” said Seidel, who qualified for the 2020 U.S. When the race was pushed back to Thanksgiving due to the pandemic and then went virtual, Molly Seidel decided to break out her famous turkey costume. The moveable feast will be part of the Peachtree Road Race, a 10K traditionally held on the Fourth of July in Atlanta. Visitors to Maine’s Great Cranberry Island on Thanksgiving morning might catch a glimpse of a turkey hotfooting it down the road, perhaps trailed by a couple of cranberries. Molly Seidel reacts as she crosses the finish line during the Women's U.S.
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