Hey everyone on Diaries Plus we've put together series called Good Good Bad which highlights some of the adventures our team

Finds the most groundbreaking inspirational and creative in a recent episode we talked with Caitlin Gerbin and Jenny Abeg about their incredible

dare I say mega- Ultra endurance feet on the North Cascades high route. This was groundbreaking. What is the North

Cascades high route? It's something like 124 miles and maybe 60,000 feet of

all the population game? Is that right Caitlin? Something like that, yeah.

It's pretty, it's almost all off trail and a lot of the travel is really challenging and really slow.

I think we kind of like joked it's like North Cascades finest

terrain which includes like the worst of the worst bushwhacking you could

imagine and then up traversing these like beautiful glaciated ridge lines and peaks where you're on steep snow and on and off rock and just kind of weaving your way through the North Cascades.

And it's funny because I think on one level,

it's kind of like you would say, quote-o-quote,

this is running, but can it be running if you have a rope?

Yeah, like if you're actually carrying a rope is that running?

Yeah, so I actually... Well, we had like pretty light... To hear the rest of good good bad,

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thanks to everyone who has subscribed you all. The craggy California coastline receded as I approached

the finish line. 25 miles down, just 1.2 to go. The crowd cheered. I will my legs to pick up speed. Only 400 meters,

then 200, then 100. I looked at my watch, 4.5 hours, right around my goal for the Bigster Marathon.

It was my third marathon and the first with hills. I was especially happy with the time because I have fought

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