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A brave LA ‘Thon run today by Alexi Pappas
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Which is a more annoying term, “thon” or “bravey”?
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Girl eating cheez its wrote:
Which is a more annoying term, “thon” or “bravey”?
A term used as a silly joke by members of a certain hobby (‘thon) could never be as annoying as a nickname an instagram star gave herself.
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Bravey my rearend wrote:
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.
It's 9 min pace.
The truth is that nobody here knows what happened. Do you know she got travel assistance and lodging? Also, the race organizers might have wanted her for the publicity. This is obviously a sub-par performance for an elite, and she is attention-seeking (probably explains some of the hate), but I don't see a problem with a former elite jogging a marathon.
It's not as fun as an epic poor performance like Chris Barnacle's 2016 Olympic Trials run.
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Come on babe TALK TO ME
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you are making me like her wrote:
. I don't really know much about her but, it was super cool to see that she ran with Diplo.
Why was that "super cool"? Are you awed celebrity?
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notes on a narcissist wrote:
1. Her Instagram bio reads "𝕱𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝕲𝖎𝖗𝖑 𝖎𝖓 𝕳𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖞𝖜𝖔𝖔𝖉," which seems unlikely.
According to the Athing Mu thread, Mu now lives in LA. So I'd guess she's probably the real fastest girl there.
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you are making me like her wrote:
The only time I ever hear about Alexi Pappas is when someone starts a negative thread about her on here and her "attention seeking behavior". If she does have attention seeking behavior, whatever her tactics are, they are failing as far as I am concerned. N=1, but I doubt I am alone. This means that the only one drawing attention to Alexi Pappas for me (and potentially others) are the people who start threads about her here.
I'm not telling anyone what they should post about on here, whatever floats your boat, but maybe consider how much traffic this web site gets in the running community and if you are the cause, or at least contributor, of your own irritation. You are seeking attention for, and drawing attention to, Alexi Pappas.
I am happy to keep giving her my attention, if you all want me to, just keep up the threads. Oh, and thanks. I don't really know much about her but, it was super cool to see that she ran with Diplo. I would never have known that. I've ran slow marathons with friends to help them out, but my friends aren't famous. She seems like a solid person - I know my friends have been super appreciative when I've helped them run marathons.
Pappas seems ok in my book. Diplo has some talent for someone with no running background--1:50 at the Miami Half and 3:55 here is not bad at all.
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TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
3:55:12 An inspirational and poetic performance soon to be displayed on multiple Social Media outlets.
Alexi pappas can bravey deez nuts
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ajacme wrote:
Bravey my rearend wrote:
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.
This is the thing about her second act that bothers me most. Running a 3:55 marathon is perfectly fine for an elite to do. But no one should get paid for a 3:55 marathon and take resources away from elites if they are not able or planning to compete at that level.
Also, I'm sorry but the whole thing is just tiring. I don't find it empowering, or helpful to anyone. She's just a running influencer like Matt Choi, claiming to inspire others to do the sport but really just trying to bring attention to herself since she can no longer do it by working hard and competing at an elite level.
I actually have no problem with her slow running, taking resources away from elites or attention whoring.
I just think her whole gig is pretentious as hell.
If I was forced to, I'd watch a generic clickbaiting influencer like Matt Choi over her any day of the week.
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Kokinho wrote:
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
By being brave. Duh.
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She seems to be having a lot of fun and leads a more interesting life than just raining and eating. I'd rather hang out with her for a day than most runners that seem so boring.
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The TMZ headline is classic!
A wonderful accomplishment to beat Oprah’s ‘Thon time.20 -
TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
The TMZ headline is classic!
A wonderful accomplishment to beat Oprah’s ‘Thon time.That part where she cut off the story in the one pic…is that really about to say she finished eighth in the women’s elite field?
Technically true maybe (eighth of eight with a ton of “non-elite” women ahead of her?) but… total Alexi move to cut the pic off right there. God she sucks.
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She's beautiful and full of good vibes. She can do whatever the hell she pleases to do and doesn't need to justify her art. She doesn't owe us anything. And she's earned the "elite" category as well. (I still love malmo's "most interesting person in the world" tribute; I hope she took it in good humor).
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I suspect you might have vision problems that could require a visit to a local optometrist.
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The prize money for the Los Angeles marathon wasn't much.
The men’s and women’s prize pool is the same. The first place man and women each claim $5,000, second place wins $2,500, third place wins $1,000, and four place wins $500.
The first US athlete to cross the finish line wins $1,000.
No wonder there was no depth.
Pappas was the 8th place elite woman.
6 elite women broke 3 hours.
3 open women broke 3 hours
So fewer than 10 women ran sub 3 at the Los Angeles Marathon.
The course isn't built for fast times but I would still expect more than 9 women to break 3 hours when there were over 6000 women finishers.
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I watched the TV coverage and it was very poor quality.
They cut from the race to reporters along the course talking to so and so person.
Deena provided some good commentary. I am not normally a fashion critic but I am not sure what she was wearing.
The only thing they did to make it somewhat interesting was give the elite women a head start and have the men try to catch them. The production provide little personal info that made the view know about the lead runners so as they would want to cheer one of them over the other. There was no real sense you know anything about them and why you should care who wins.
How LA that a couple of the elite wheelchair racers crashed in a pothole.
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