That was Alexi Pappas

Fame is so fleeting. Even more so for distance runners. When Shalene went by with Matt James, absolutely nobody in the crowd knew who she was. She is a legend. I had to explain to the people standing with me who she is. I Googled her Olympics pics showed them on my phone. One of the older ladies who was watching the race with me said, "She is so skinny. I wish I can be skinny like her."

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Calling her a great artist, and accomplished writer is to elevate someone with junior high poetic sills and insidious self-promotion as traits to be admired. Her personality is juvenile, her talent is minimal and banal at best. To call her an artist is an insult to people who actually have some ability and creativity to share.

Don't want to seem cruel, but if she didn't have an association with running I would find her much less offensive.

She does have a book published and has made several movies, working with some pretty decent names. I think she's a more accomplished writer/filmmaker than she is a runner. just my opinion.

Always two sides of the coin, the only reason these people can find success is because they have enablers. It's like the cartels in mexico

She has 128k followers... I think that speaks to the stupidity of the human race

I forgot how many of you were fourth in CIF XC, an All-American at two different schools, set a national record, ran in the Olympics, and are living the life you want a decade after college. Alexi isn't my cup of tea, but it's either working for her, or she's have fun doing it.

Meanwhile you're 45 pounds up on your senior year, and behind a few contracts on insurance sales. Get back to work, and don't forget to pick up the kid from daycare on the way home.

She is strange.

Her book is excellent - I highly recommend it.

Her movie is extremely cringey, but is better watched *after* reading her book. It helped me understand it. It's almost like she's trying to show the life she might have lived had her mom not killed herself.

Like her mother, she struggles with mental illness. Perhaps some of the extremely odd behavior is a reflection of that.

I bet you're both women

This reminds me of all the threads hating on Rachel MacArthur. Yes, they both live off their personalities and influence at this point. Yes, their running is not up to par. Totally fine to dislike them for it, let's just not pile-on on a message board and instead give them the lack of attention they so fear.

I am not in favor of switching nationality solely for the sake of easier entrance into championships, but here attacking the individual is unnecessary and harmful when what you really hate is the culture that she represents, which is all those things, narcissistic, fake, exhibitionistic, cloying, vain, etc.

I was also quite confused when she pranced by with Shalane around mile 5. At that point she was well ahead, I encountered her next in the park when she had then been absorbed by the 4+ hour crew. She must've begun walking or taken a break from prancing. I cant imagine how frustrating it must’ve been fro the runners she ended up finishing with to have to deal with this stupidity

Please erase anything having to do with this woman.

Roger that. I wish I could feel that good again! Amongst the runners she must have created a magical vibe. Let her do what she wants. We're all jealous.

Daily Mail readers are so dumb. There are over 400 comments and almost all of them are decrying the fact that 72 degrees can be "brutal" for the marathon. Why, it's just the most perfect temp, SNOWFLAKE. And they seem to be implying that do Nascimento collapsed not cause of the heat and humidity, not cause of the world-record pace he was running on a hilly course, but because the United States made him get vaccinated. Jesus, one-topic hive over there.

Whatever, Alexi Pappas goes home Devastated.