Perseverance is a film about all the highs and lows of running 866k/538 miles across the Pyrenees Mountains. In 2016 Paulette Kirby was one of 266 starters, and one of 81 finishers. In her words. This is her story.

When Paulette Kirby was growing up in Chicago she always new she should be in the outdoors. But she didn’t know it would involve one of the Icons of Adventure Racing, Primal Quest Badlands 2009, pulling 100 pounds of canoe and gear through the woods of Maine with 2 women teammates, Untamed New England 2010, Racing twice in Patagonia, Patagonia Expedition Race, 2010,2011, crashing and almost dying, Expedition Idaho, 2011, recovering and running 200 miles in 92 hours, Tahoe 200 2014, and running from the Mediterranean to Atlantic Ocean. Paulette is also a Clinical Nurse Practitioner with her own clinic. She also has two birds, Jimmie Lee and Stevie Ray, Chile a street dog she brought home from Chile, and a Husband.

Randy Ericksen (a husband) is a filmmaker/photographer/podcaster who likes to hangout with adventure racers. At one time he was a really good bike racer.