This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Bob's Red Mill,

making whole grain oatmeals, flowers, and baking mixes that are the backbone of proper nutrition for athletes.

And so, for a lot of us here at Outside, Bob's Red Mill products have become part of our lives.

The most impactful experience I have with Bob's Red Mill has to do with Cyclocross Races.

This is the outside podcast very on sound designer and

producer Robbie Carver. I don't know if I need to explain that or not but if you're

unfamiliar Cyclocross is a bike race where you use road bikes to ride on dirt and mud.

It's also usually freezing cold and wet.

In a previous chapter of life, Robbie was pretty fast.

And being fast on a bike usually means that you're super thin and need calories to stay warm.

But when it comes to planning ahead for things like bike rides, Robbie's not exactly military precise.

I mean I'm a train wreck, you know that.

Like, trying...

Off the top of my head, Robbie's forgotten,

water, his helmet, and shoes on our rides.

So breakfast on race day is not a guarantee.

Thankfully Bob's Red Mill oatmeal is pretty much the perfect fuel for a cyclocross race and

every weekend they're out there with a tent.

And you walk up to the tent and they've got this giant vat of steaming Bob's Red Mill oatmeal

and then just this like smorgas board of toppings that you can put in you know sugar nuts raisins

cream peanut butter like anything you could want everyone knows that proper nutrition

can be the difference between finishing a race and bonking.

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