We will continue to update information on Alexi Pappas’s parents.Like many famous people and celebrities, Alexi Pappas keeps her personal life private. "It's like we're learning new rules and that's what's fun about the running and the creative worlds -- you can try new mediums and new events ... similar muscles but different. *Bravey, noun: a courageous person who strives for crazy goals. She turned serious.“But I’m not a cartoon character,” she said. “What I think it was, maybe she didn’t have someone to share what she was going through. I’ll bring my bowl of mush down for breakfast into Jeremy’s office and look at what he’s editing.“You cannot run 24 hours a day.

"That impacted me in two major ways," says Pappas. It’s uncomfortable and challenging.”Pappas, in her slightly skewed perspective, sees herself as, well, a certain tuber primed for consumption.“I’ve always thought of myself as a potato, where you start out as this thing,” she said. Please check back soon for updates.Alexi Pappas’s mother’s name is unknown at this time and her father’s name is under review. "She adds, too, that creative pursuits have always "sheltered me a little bit from overtraining. It’s hard to keep pushing forward and be positive, just like in her running. On her social media pages -- where photos are captioned with pithy poems and quirky observations -- Pappas gives guidance to followers who come to her for advice on running, injuries, diet or body image. “Alexi has momentum in her life. The 30-year-old runner was born in Alameda County, California, USA. I had never been to a track meet in my life.”As it turned out, Mr. Teicher had met Ms. Pappas the previous semester at a campus party. “And Jeremy could really bear down on his film work.”Ms. It doesn’t hinder her, only enhances her.”Pappas’s coach, the Olympian Ian Dobson, said he not only accepted but also embraced her choices. Potatoes can be fancy next to a prime rib or mashed, or you could be fries next to a humble hamburger. "For marathoners I think this Olympic shift has been particularly impactful because there's only so many marathons you can run in a year and so the whole fall has been taken off the table for good reason," says Pappas. Pappas continues. But she keeps me going.”For Pappas, self-expression is a form of self-preservation.“When I think of my mom, it makes me … I don’t know, let’s just say that’s why at least somebody knows everything about me,” she said. "In distance running in particular, fitness is like a pencil," says Pappas. I think I've made the most of my time because there's two things asking for my time. She would instead fling open her interior life like French window shutters flapping in a stiff breeze.“Alexi tries to be open and talk honestly with people,” said Teicher, who met Pappas at Dartmouth when they were studying film and theater. Alexi Pappas or Alexia Pappa (Greek Αλεξία Παππά; born 28 March 1990) is a Greek-American long distance athlete, filmmaker, actor, and writer. “She talks about her fears and how hard things can be. Pappas is a poet, essayist, actress and filmmaker whose semi-autobiographical movie, “Tracktown,” which is set in Eugene and in which she stars as a middle-distance runner seeking a life of balance in a sport of immersive dedication, will have its premiere on June 4 at the Los Angeles Film Festival.Pappas writes a monthly poetry column for Women’s Running magazine, musing on topics including Her essays on the running life, including arch observations about training with men, Pappas may be the only elite track and field athlete who quotes William Faulkner from memory, and is almost certainly the only one who turned down fully funded offers to pursue a writing master’s degree from Columbia, Southern California and the University of California, Irvine, to run professionally.Yet for all her pursuits, it is Pappas’s insouciant, cockeyed worldview, expressed via social media — “Whatever I am to these girls, I’m happy to be,” Pappas said. They don’t decompose. It took off from there.”She paused to wipe away a wisp of hair escaping from the labyrinthine, Marge Simpson concoction atop her head and then splayed her hands across the fire-engine-red picnic table that serves as a centerpiece in the South Eugene loft/film-editing studio she shares with Teicher. In marathon running -- a different beast compared to competing on the track -- she has a relatively new event to train for, and away from the roads and trails her filmmaking career is also taking a step into the unknown with a "top secret" TV project in the works. "Having run a personal best of 2:34.26 in Houston, Texas, earlier this year, Pappas is now faced with a raceless schedule and no definitive goals to train towards. She transferred from Dartmouth University to the University of Oregon in 2012. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved. An Olympic 10,000-meter runner turned marathoner by day, actor, director, screenwriter and author in all other spare hours she can salvage, Alexi Pappas rarely pauses for breath.. That’s why people are drawn to her. Having been raised under the mantra "follow your dreams" and being told they were special, they tend to be confident and tolerant of difference.While we don't know Alexi Pappas birth time, but we do know her mother gave birth to her on a Wednesday. "Trying something in a television world is almost like moving from the track to the marathon -- it's like the same sport but a different event," Pappas tells CNN Sport. During a rap concert on the Dartmouth campus in October 2009, Alexi Pappas, dressed in a full-body leotard and sitting in the front row, was called on stage to dance. In 1992 the first text message was sent, DVDs were invented, Sony PlayStation was released and Google was founded. "The cliff at the end of athletics can feel really daunting," says Pappas. 65.3k Followers, 110 Following, 1,539 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Alexi Pappas (@alexipappas) Teicher is contributing his editing skills.