Hello, all you beautiful people, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast.

As always, my name is Patrick.

And on today's episode, I'm excited to share with you a conversation I had with Katie Scott,

who just placed second in the Arizona Trail 300.

And she did so after deciding to do the AZT only four days before the group start,

and this was her first ever bikepacking race.

I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation, and I hope that you do too,

and I appreciate Katie coming on the podcast and sharing with us.

On today's episode, I am going to make a little bit of announcement. So keep your ears peeled

for that. And I'm going to keep this one short and sweet because I am in the throes of packing

for the Mulberry Gap takeover that's happening this weekend,

which means that I have to unpack from the previous bikepacking trip.

I have to unpack from Oklahoma and get packed for this one.

So it's always the packing shuffle.

I was unloading my frame bag from the last bike packing trip and forgot that I had left

in there some cheese and crackers and like a little meat thing. It was like a meat tray that I threw

into a bag and it turned into a science project in my frame bag. And if you don't know what I'm

talking about, then you're not a real bike packer because every

real bike packer knows you got to have moldy food in your frame bag or your feed bag or top

two bag. It's just part of the deal. And so if you haven't done that yet, make sure to leave your

food in your bags after you get back from your trip, leave it in there for a good month or so,

and then open it up and see what you got cooking. your trip, leave it in there for a good month or so, and then open it up

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