A brave LA ‘Thon run today by Alexi Pappas

Nothing against choosing to hobbyjog but I dont understand how you can even make yourself run that slow when you're capable of running 230

And here you are seeking approval

In a weird way, I sort of admire her for doing this. How many elites, fast sub-elites, or serious hobby joggers would rather DNF or DNS rather than have an almost four-hour marathon attached to their name?

Clearly, she is done with her high performance days and today's effort indicates that she is likely just running for fun and social media reasons. Fast or slow, if you don't enjoy it then why do it?

When mediocrity is elevated to a level of celebration then excellence is denigrated to a level of irrelevance.

This is happening at all levels of society.

Your posts are the perfect example

Get out of here with that bulls**t! Someone having fun being mediocre doesn't degrade your "excellence". Or, are you the stereotypical angry running dork that needs the validation of others to feel seen? Are you the guy that storms off in a huff when a chubby co-worker gets praised for walking a 5K and getting healthier but no one gushed over your sub-15:00 Trukey Trot win?

Fat people have a disease. You are what is wrong with America.

Shocking to see a thread crapping on a successful women.

Sub-4:00 is now successful?

The low self-esteem stick bois are outing themselves!

He has my approval!

All my best and most humorous posts are deleted by the mods. I’m just misunderstood, but not deterred from pointing out the considerable flaws in much of today’s wayward thinking.

Greece must be proud. #Alexithegreat

So how are they so good at leaving up only the smug, humorless and self-righteous ones? Because I've never seen them mess that up even one time so far.

She is retired from running as a pro; and she might have just done it with friends. Is that a bad thing? Jeez. Maybe she just likes staying fit and running? I know people like that.

The weirder thing is the guy who knew this happened and bothered to start a thread. I haven't thought about Pappas's running since she left UO.

Kara Goucher, Alan Culpepper, Lauren Fleshman, or Bob Kennedy could jog a marathon tomorrow, we don't have to care... Just let these pros go from your mind.

Not nearly as much as Seth Demoor triggers you on a literal daily basis.

I’m clueless to who this fellow is. Neo-Luddites don’t run with cellphones or listen to computer generated noise that many people misidentify as music.

This is her new ‘thing’. Gets accepted into the elite fields, gets comped lodging and some travel assistance (all while a truly deserving athlete gets dropped off the list for assistance) then starts with the elites and run 8min pace while hamming it up.

Sick of her BS.