Dispatches: Alexi Pappas Dreams Like a Crazy and Runs Like One, Too

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Distance runner Alexi Pappas is the rare dual-threat of Olympic athlete and movie star. In the 2016 film Tracktown, which she wrote, directed, and plays the lead character in, she set out to capture the running-obsessed culture of Eugene, Oregon—a place where recreational runners share the trails with pros, and local farms and butchers step up as beef and vegetable sponsors for hungry athletes. Outside contributor Stephanie Joyce talked to Pappas about how her life as an Olympic hopeful translated to the big screen, and why so many people connect with her as an artist and a runner.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by The North Face, telling stories of women pushing the boundaries of exploration.
0:07.0	Today, it's Hillary Nelson.
0:10.0	And I'm a ski mountaineer.
0:11.0	Hillary Nelson was not some sort of child prodigy.
0:14.8	She didn't find her calling in the mountains
0:16.5	until she was a teenager.
0:18.2	But once she did, there was no looking back.
0:20.8	I don't know.
0:21.2	It was just magic. It fit with my body type, it fit with my spirit, my mind, and I think
0:28.9	that was when I first knew like, well, this is like somehow, I don't know how, but what I was meant to do.
0:35.0	It wasn't long before she was traveling all around the world on expeditions, to India,
0:40.0	Kimchatka, Mongolia, and Myanmar.
0:43.2	And while it's not easy to be a female badass mountaineer,
0:46.6	it's even harder to be a female badass mountaineer with kids.
0:50.4	The mountains keep calling. So much so that when my first kid was 10 months old,
0:57.0	I left and went to Pakistan for 8 weeks
1:00.0	and went on a really aggressive trip and not just as a team member. I was the team leader.
1:07.0	Being an expedition leader and raising kids are both about taking responsibility for other people's lives.
1:12.0	The problem is, Hillary wanted to raise kids taking responsibility for other people's lives.
1:12.8	The problem is Hillary wanted to raise kids
1:15.2	who would do the things they were passionate about.
1:17.9	She felt like she had to be that person.
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