Hey, everybody. How you doing? Welcome to the Pillars podcast. Of course, I am Dylan Bowman, and I want to thank you for being

here in the time of infinite content. I am honored that you would spend time with us here on the show.

And today's episode is a great one with my new friend Alex Borsuk from here in Portland, Oregon.

Alex is a prolific and super versatile adventure athlete.

She's a trail runner, ultra runner, mountaineer, ski mountaineer, rock climber, cyclist,

and generally just an outdoor savant. And she's also a self-described weekend warrior,

though obviously a very serious one. But she does manage to balance her career as a nutritionist

and sports dietitian with an insanely impressive resume of athletic achievement.

So in this conversation, we talk about Alex's background, her career and perspectives on nutrition,

before we pivot and talk about some of her incredible adventures that she's done recently, including the

Mount Rainier Infinity Loop, which she did with Caitlin Gervin in 2019, and her unsupported

Wonderland Trail, FKT, which she did just this past summer in 2020. Alex, again, is a personal friend of mine, a personal inspiration of mine,

and she does a great job of making these huge, incredible, potentially intimidating adventures

seem accessible and approachable to us normal people. So I hope you guys really enjoy this conversation.

And before we get to it, just a quick, very exciting announcement.

That's right.

Today is the day.

The Pillars app that I have been talking about now for several weeks is now live in the iOS app store.

And we are so, so both thrilled, a little nervous.

But just, yeah, very excited to have all of our hard work finally out in the real world and in a place

where you guys can start interacting with it if it's something that you're interested in.

Thank you guys so much for the patience.

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