What's up fellas welcome back to commas over cool brew with me your host Emma Abrahamson

I am so excited for today's episode today

We have on a Lexi Pappas who you guys probably know her as the professional runner and also she has created two movies

She just wrote a book called bravy. She also did grad school at the University of Oregon

So we have met a couple times and yeah this episode was awesome. I really loved recording it. So stay tuned

Alexi welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to have you on to get started. Do you want to just give a rundown of who you are and what you're about?

Yes, so my name is Alexi Pappas and I am a 2016 Olympian in long distance in the 10k

And I am an actress and now author of the book bravy with a forward by my Rudolph

Man, I didn't even know how to describe you because you have so many different passions which I find really inspiring

And that's why I wanted to have you on the podcast because not only have I known you as a runner

But the interest that you have outside of running or something that I feel like it's kind of like uncom and I guess in the running world

Like you don't see that many filmmakers or writers that are coming out while also professionally running

So I'm excited to dive deep into your brain and have a good conversation

So to start off, I just kind of wanted to talk about like how you got your start in running

And if you had any other hobbies growing up too

Yeah, yeah so I definitely was like a all around kid

I mean loved a lot of sports and also did a lot of theater and you know cared about having friends and all that stuff

And so the running really came about because it happened to be like my strength in a lot of these other sports

And I think I enjoyed other sports before I loved running and I think that was because I loved the team element that I felt on like my soccer teams and my basketball and softball teams

And my running I think felt like you know I ran in middle school and for a part of high school

But it felt like I really didn't like begin my running like the joyful part of it until college and that was when I found a team at Dartmouth and a coach that felt kind of like that that energy that I had in soccer and other sports that I so loved

So you went to Dartmouth first and then you went to Oregon for your masters, I believe, right?

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