This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Bob's Red Mill, making ingredients that are the backbone of proper nutrition for athletes, including some athletes that work it outside.

Yeah, there's this wacky race called Plaza at a Peak, and so you ride a road bike up to the base of the ski hill in Santa Fe, and then you strap on skis and skins, and you skin up to the top of this like 12,000 foot mountain and

then you ski back down and the great reward is that you get to drink a lot of beer

in the parking lot.

This is Outside's digital

editorial director, Axie Navis, who last year won the Plaza at Peak Race. And it turns

out that she's a big fan of Bob's Red Mill bars. Bob's bars, one might say.

Bob's bars that are better.

Is that how they call them or did you come up with that?

No, that's what they call them.

I think it's Bob's better bars.

Is there a peanut butter butter

better bars?

There are.

Bob's Better Bars are made with whole grain oats,

peanut butter and organic honey.

And they come in such classic flavor combinations as peanut butter and

jelly, peanut butter in chocolate, and peanut butter in banana. So they taste like food you're

used to eating, not like an energy bar. I was reading about bars and like sort of their entrance into

the endurance sports market. Like most of the entrenched bar companies started out as like this is just like such a technical food and it's like space technology and frontier science and

it tastes like nothing you've ever had before.

And now we're kind of like, man, that tastes like nothing I would normally eat.

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