# @alexipappas on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw5iTdGxi_i
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9304522-alexipappas-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/bb3293ca94.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-09-07T17:29:33.000+00:00

## Caption

tbt running school reunion
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the giantrace brought together 9 alaskaair All-Stars, all creating space & opportunities for other women in sports.
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i started with the all stars, ran some with my dad, & then found Ava, whose dad has been a season ticket holder in the same section as my dad for the Giants for many years. ava is a teenager & experiencing growing pains! she grew 5 inches last year. 5! we run together & also walk & talk about how puberty is a superpower & how wonderful it is that her body is telling her to slow down for a bit while her body develops into the strong woman she will become. this same thing happened to me many many years ago when my body changed during puberty. I growth I embraced when I was 16 allowed me to have an injury-free career full of hundred mile weeks leading into the Olympics. puberty should really be called our castle-building phase of life, with our body as the castle. I tried, in so many words & strides together, to tell Ava she would be more than okay— that she is capable, & does belong in sports. 
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the all-stars meet us in the final 400 & we all run in together. I thought I had no video documentation of Ava, since I would not have wanted someone to film a birds-&-bees-of-female-athlete convo with me when I was her age, but ty angel nessafraser, who edited this video & actually got some footage of Ava running into the finish along the warning track dirt (!), u can see 9 seconds in. 
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#giantrace #alaskapartner #AlaskaCarelines

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alaskapartner, alaskacarelines, giantrace

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