16: Alexi Pappas - Beyond Grateful
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🗓️ 5 May 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Carrie catches up with elite runner and filmmaker Alexi Pappas! Alexi talks about falling in love with running, competing for Greece in the 2016 Olympic Games and the premiere of her movie Tracktown, which she co-wrote, co-directed and starred in!
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Alexi Pappas Alexi Pappas is a Greek-American long distance athlete. She attended Dartmouth where she was an NCAA All American in indoor 3000m, 5000m, and the steeplechase as well as the Ivy League champion in the steeplechase. She became a citizen of Greece in 2016, and represented the country in the 2016 Olympic Games where she set the national record in the 10000m in 31:36.16. Alexi co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the movie Tracktown, premiering in spring 2017.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Sea Talley Run is brought to you by Kind Snacks. |
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| 0:18.2 | Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Telethson and welcome to the C-Tali Run podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | Today I'm interviewing Alexi Pappas. |
| 0:27.4 | Alexi competed in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, representing Greece in the 10,000 meters. |
| 0:33.1 | In this interview, we talk about her movie premiere of Tracktown, which she co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in. |
| 0:40.1 | This girl has it going on. |
| 0:42.2 | Let's get after it. |
| 0:46.1 | So let's talk. |
| 0:47.6 | How's it been going? |
| 0:48.6 | And, you know, you have some exciting stuff happening. |
| 0:50.7 | You just made your Olympic team. |
| 0:53.1 | And now you have a movie premiere. So all kinds |
| 0:56.4 | of fun stuff. But I have to make sure my, my listeners know who Alexi Pappas is and how it all |
| 1:01.7 | started. So can we just rewind real fast here for everyone and kind of talk about who you are and |
| 1:07.5 | how you got into this crazy sport and then making movies? Of course, of course, yeah. So I, you know, started running as many people did at a pretty |
| 1:19.5 | young age, but I think where I really found the joy in running and my excitement for it was in college when I went to |
| 1:32.5 | Dartmouth and New Hampshire and found this tremendous sense of like team that I had experienced in |
| 1:41.3 | other sports growing up and in other activities like theater, I finally found that |
| 1:47.3 | sort of camaraderie in college with my team there. And that's where I really fell in love with |
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