Running as Art, With Olympian and Filmmaker Alexi Pappas

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Extreme adaptability and versatility can be found throughout the animal kingdom, but may have found their peak expression in Alexi Pappas. As a runner, Pappas was a two-time All-American for Dartmouth who set a national record running for Greece at the 2016 Olympics. As a performer, she was a member of Dartmouth’s gut-busting Dog Day improv group before going on to write, direct, and star in several feature films, including Tracktown, Olympic Dreams, and Not An Artist. The further into her career Pappas gets, the more running influences her art, and her art influences her running—all of which she talks about in a way that makes you understand how she’s risen so high in two fundamentally different worlds.

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1:10.5	I'm certainly not going to sacrifice the things I'm doing with the rest of my life.
1:11.0	Like I love guiding Lisa. I love doing crazy fun things with all the brands I'm working with. I love the
1:16.2	art I'm doing is is really taking front seat. But I am still running. I think you're an
1:24.6	achievement Tasmanian devil. But it's not.
1:27.9	You are just, you are just.
1:28.3	That's what you see though, because I don't. It is what I see. I mean, it's because it's. But I don't care. It's not about the like, I don't, it's, I don't know maybe it's about it. I guess I have to talk to my, I have therapy right after this. So I'm going to talk to my therapist about this.
1:43.7	Because I don't know if it's about achievement.
1:46.5	I don't know if it's
1:45.5	about achievement. I don't know maybe it is and maybe I need to look more on myself.
1:49.7	I'm not saying that the achievement has to be the metal or the podium. It can be bounding without
1:54.9	resistance up the hill. It can be a great writing session. It can be the big pitch that you land for the giant studio blockbuster.
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