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Welcome to episode 281 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We've got a great episode for everyone this week. Joining us from Norway to talk about their epic Catalina/Southern California/Vegas adventure, and so much more, are Coach Loyd Færøvik and Coach Ruben Wallentinsen, a.k.a., Team Swimosaurus Flex. We met this duo in Two Harbors and knew we wanted to get them on the show. In this conversation, we covered everything from treating hills like snacks, how powerlifting can make you a better Swimrunner, and what the local Swimrun scene in Norway looks like. This was a fun one!Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 278 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!ÖTILLÖ Catalina 2025 took place this past weekend and what a weekend it was! Five years after the first edition, the event made a triumphant return to kick off the ÖTILLÖ USA Swimrun season. In this episode, we share all the details about our amazing weekend on Catalina Island and share Chipper and Will Ramsey's report of their race. Spoiler alert: vibes were high all weekend and Chipper and Will had an awesome race!Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 277 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!In this episode we discuss the finale of Swimrun NC at Hanging Rock State Park, North Carolina. We're joined by Herbert Krabel, one of the co-founders and race directors of Swimrun NC, who shares insights about the race's history, memorable moments, local community involvement, and why the race is ending. We also announce a special giveaway, reflect on the race's impact on the Swimrun community, and bid farewell to an iconic event in North American Swimrunning.00:00 Introduction to Swimrun00:53 Welcome to the Low Tide Boyz Podcast01:06 Celebrating Swimrun NC01:33 Giveaway Announcement02:18 Memories and Homage02:46 Swimrun NC History and Significance04:32 Interview with Herbert Krabel05:30 Herbert's Endurance Adventures06:09 Challenges and Changes in Swimrun NC07:03 Race Experience and Community Impact07:29 Course Design and Evolution10:25 Unique Aspects of Swimrun NC19:14 Growth and Popularity of Swimrun23:51 The Origin of the Iconic Race Photo Tradition25:13 Heartfelt Cards from Local School Kids27:46 Unique Awards and Memorable Moments30:37 Epic Race Battles and Close Finishes36:56 Reflections on the Swimrun NC Legacy40:47 Final Thoughts and Future Plans~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris 

Découvrez l'histoire d'Ermano Di Miceli, podcasteur depuis 2014 (avec plus de 400 épisodes à son actif) et triathlète de longue date. Il nous raconte ses débuts en triathlon, ce qui l'a amené à découvrir le swimrun, ainsi que ses défis, comme la traversée de la France en swimrun, jusqu'à ses projets de courses encore plus longues à venir, et sa préparation pour l'ÖTILLÖ 2025.Au programme :•

Welcome to episode 272 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We've got nothing short of a masterpiece/masterclass episode this week. In 2022, Andy Blow joined us on Episode 118 for our Countdown to ÖTILLÖ series to share his thoughts on how to best approach fueling for ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. We decided to re-release this episode since it is still solid gold advice almost three years later. What he shared was nothing short of a continuous knowledge bomb that should be mandatory listening for anyone racing Worlds in September and frankly, anyone racing a Swimrun. Full stop. Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 243 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!At time of release, we are on the eve of the 2024 edition of ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship and we have a great episode to celebrate the big day. Joining us to talk about their forthcoming experience is Tracy Sesselberg and Sarah Haskell, A.K.A., Team Tracy and Sarah's Excellent Adventure. This was a great conversation and we can't wait to follow them on race day.But first…Training Update Chipper's Knee UpdateWe're replacing our training updates for the next few weeks to keep everyone up to date on the status of Chipper's knee ligaments. No major update other than x-rays were negative and an MRI is scheduled.ShoutoutThis week's shoutout goes out to our two newest Patrons on Patreon, Brett and Sarah. Thank you both so much for the support!Feats of EnduranceThis week's winner is our friend Matt Murray (and one half of Team Landshark) for racing his first 50 miler over the weekend. Strong work dude!Bonus shoutout to everyone that raced ÖTILLÖ Mackinac Island over the weekend. The weather looked amazing and the IG coverage was FOMO-inducing for sure!Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.Show BusinessGot inspired by ÖTILLÖ Mackinac Island and you're Interested in signing up for one or both of the remaining ÖTILLÖ races in North America? Then use the code LOWTIDE15 to save 15% on your race registration for Orcas Island and Austin.Team Tracy and Sarah's Excellent AdventureIt was great to catch up with Tracy and Sarah on the cusp of their travel to Sweden for Worlds. We got all the details about how they qualified, how they trained for the big day, and what they hope to get from the experience. This conversation had all the feels and we're stoked for their upcoming excellent adventure.Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Gravel biking is growing really fast, and as much as I like being on my road bike, I find gravel riding much more fun. I discovered gravel riding during the pandemic, which is also what happened to this week's podcast guest. She is professional gravel racer Danni Shrosbree, and she races globally for the Felt UN1TD racing team.  She was UK National Gravel Champion in 2022, runner-up in 2023, and has finished 4th in the world famous Unbound Gravel race in Kansas. What makes this conversation even more enjoyable is that Danni is the first child of a previous guest, Bernie Shrosbree, who was on the show in 2019. Danni and I chat about:   Athletic influences from Mum and Dad How a diverse athletic childhood helped shape her current career Doing the OtillO swim/run event with Bernie Gravel racing and how to prepare for it Focussing on sleep and nutrition for the best recovery   To find out more about Danni Shrosbree please check out the following channels:   Website  Instagram - @dannishrosbree YouTube - @dannishrosbree - Danni has some cool videos on her channel.   **To get a free copy of my personal daily mobility routine, please click HERE** To contact Beth regarding Life Coaching, please visit her website at BethanyWardLifeCoaching.uk. Sports Nutrition questions - if you have a sports nutrition question that you would like answered on the podcast, please email it to me via Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com.   Join our SWAT/High Performance Human tribe using this link, with a happiness guarantee! You can watch a brief video about the group by going to our website here, and join our SWAT High Performance Human tribe here. Purchase a copy of my High Performance Human e-book featuring more than 30 top tips on how to upgrade your life. If you would like to help offset the cost of our podcast production, we would be so grateful. Please click here to support the HPH podcast. Thank you! Visit Simon's website for more information about his coaching programmes. Links to all of Simon's social media channels can be found here.  For any questions please email Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com.

Welcome to episode 242 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!If you're racing Worlds in a few weeks, you've likely reached the “throw money at the problem” stage of your training. At this point the hay is in the barn but you want to make sure that you've got your kit dialed in for the demands of what is, for anyone not doing the One Water Race, the longest Swimrun that most will face. In this episode, we will share our thoughts on the ideal Swimrun kit for ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship and we will break down each category of the kit with our recommendations to help ensure that you have a great day on the Archipelago.Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 238 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!In this week's show we share our top 5 (10) fueling tips for Swimrun. Our fueling strategies have gotten so much better over the years and we have to give a lot of credit to the folks at Precision Fuel and Hydration for most, if not all, of the insight that we share in this episode. Get your notepads out for this one!Top 5 tips:“Knowledge is Power” (Know your numbers/Train your gut/practice race day nutrition) Proper fueling in training results in better recovery post-workoutDevelop a Pre-race fueling plan Mindset shift to Take as many gels as possible, not the least Don't put all your eggs in one basket We also shared 5 bonus tips so listen for those.A couple of previous fueling episodes and other resources:Conversation with Andy Blow Episode 25Countdown to OTILLO with Andy Blow Episode 118Check out the Nutrition Planner on the PFH website.While you are there, use this link to save 15% off of your order.Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

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Welcome to episode 236 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!Thank you for listening and/or watching the show on Youtube! Make sure to like, subscribe, comment, and leave us a review!Our second race of 2024 is in the books and it was a blast. In this episode, we share our race report for ÖTILLÖ Whistler and take you on our journey (with families in tow) to the first ÖTILLÖ event in Canada. Spoiler Alert: much fun was had, core memories were formed, and copious amounts of poutine was consumed.Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Dans ce 2e épisode de notre série "Road to OTILLO" consacrée à notre préparation pour OTILLO 2024 nous faisons un point sur l'avancé de notre entrainement, nous parlons blessures et gestion de la blessure nous vous proposons un petit recap des courses et événements sur lesquels nous étions présents. Bonne écoute Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Bienvenue dans le premier épisode de notre série spéciale "Road to ÖTILLÖ", consacrée à notre préparation pour notre objectif principal de la saison : les Championnats du Monde de Swimrun OTILLO 2024. Découvrez les coulisses de notre préparation, des sessions d'entraînement rigoureuses aux stratégies de qualification, tout en explorant les parcours de divers binômes qui se préparent pour le même défi.Au cœur de cet épisode :Nous vous détaillerons le fonctionnement du circuit OTILLO : les critères de qualification pour les championnats du monde et le système de ranking actuellement en place. Nous vous partageons notre préparation hivernale, au grès des blessures et des entraînements que nous avons réalisés pendant cette période. Vous découvrirez aussi nos prochaines courses, nos programmes respectifs et les différents binômes avec qui nous serons amenés à courir ! Rejoignez nous dans ce voyage vers ÖTILLÖ 2024.Que vous soyez un athlète aspirant à vous qualifier pour ÖTILLÖ ou simplement curieux de découvrir les hauts et les bas de notre préparation à l'un des événements de swimrun les plus exigeants au monde, cette série d'épisodes est pour vous. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Ever wanted to find an aquatic adventure that transcends mere metrics of distance and duration. In this episode we enjoy a conversation with the visionary joint founder of Swimrun, someone who has shaped the evolution of this awe-inspiring sport into the global event it is today. We uncover the philosophy that underpins Swimrun, as we delve into how its unique format and how it works with nature, embracing its beauty and pushing the participants to the edges of what they think is possible. In this episode we talk to Otillo's joint founder and father of Swimrun - Michael Lemmel. We really drill down into the essence of the sport and delve into Michael's profound philosophy behind the WHY of Swimrun—an event that goes beyond the mere realms of swimming and running. We explore Michael's beliefs that through this unique multi-sport discipline, we can tap into the essence of our surroundings, immersing ourselves in the awe-inspiring landscapes, and experiencing a profound connection as paired competitors work with the elements to achieve a common goal. The interview takes place on the beautiful Lazure beach in Montenegro. The perfect location to have a conversation with someone with such a love of the outdoors. Together, we'll explore Michael's unwavering belief that Swimrun is not just a race; he shares his insightful perspectives and personal experiences, we'll discover the uniquemeaning behind this sport and uncover how it has the potential to shape not just our bodies, but our minds and spirits as well. So, get ready for a captivating conversation, as Michael Lemmel unravels the secrets of Swimrun and guides us on a journey of connection, and limitless possibilities. I hope thisepisode leaves you inspired, intrigued, and eager to explore an event that at its core is designed to integrate the potential of competitors with nature.Further links and details on: www.MYSWIM.ukYouTube version of the interview: https://youtu.be/rUSAlOJzJnsMichael Lemmel's Instagram account : @Michaellemmel

Welcome to episode 201 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!In this episode we are discussing how to qualify for ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship since the advent of their new ranking system. We've gotten a bunch of questions from our listeners about how to get to the start line so we're breaking down all the ways to qualify for the race that started it all.Things that are the same as in year's past:Registration window from January 1st through the 25th.A total of 160 team spots availableAll podium teams from ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship from the previous year (9 spots) (Only for the same team constellation as on the podium)Race Directors choice (10 spots) that are used at the Race Director's discretion throughout the year for sponsors, media and special circumstances.Things that are a different/new:There is no longer going to be Direct qualification for the World Championship. (Used to be that podium finishers at World Series events would get slots. That is no more.)The Swimrun Ranking system has been revamped and “simplified” and uses a new point system:Team members collect individual pointsTeam members collect points from January to December by finishing in the Top 30 of each category (men/women/mixed) at an ÖTILLÖ World Series or an ÖTILLÖ Merit Race TEAM event. The winning teams will earn a maximum of 60 points (ÖTILLÖ World Series) and 30 points (ÖTILLÖ Merit Race) per athlete.At the beginning of the year, every athlete in the ranking has the chance to apply with a team partner of their choice. ÖTILLO will then add all accumulated points of both partners and create its ÖTILLÖ qualification list, which will be the basis for the invitation to participate at The Swimrun World Championship.How Does the New Point System Work:The Top 30 teams that finish a race in each category (Men/ Mixed/ Women) at ÖTILLÖ World Series events and ÖTILLÖ Merit Races get ranking points.With these points you can apply for Ranking selection at ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship.All athletes in the ranking will be provided with an invitation to apply for a spot with a partner of their choice that also has collected ranking points in 2023. The two individual rankings will then be added together and will lead to a team ranking for the qualification of ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship 2024.Applications based on Swimrun Rankings take place from January 1st-25th with the announcement of teams taking place on Swimrun Christmas, a.k.a., The first Thursday in February. (Feb. 1 in 2024)The points are distributed based on the following criteria:Racers get individual ranking points at all ÖTILLÖ World Series team events and ÖTILLÖ Merit Races (long distance only) from January 1st to December 31st (calendar year). No points for Solo category racers!Ranking points will be awarded to Top 30 finishers of ÖTILLÖ World Series (WS) and ÖTILLÖ Merit Races (MR) in each category (Men/ Mixed/ Women)Points for ÖTILLÖ World Series Races (WS): 60 for winning team/ athletePoints for ÖTILLÖ Merit Races (MR): 30 for winning team / athleteAt WS races points are allocated ranks 1-30 with 2 points difference to the next placed team (1st: 60 pts, 2nd: 58 pts etc.)At MR races points are allocated ranks 1-30 with 1 point difference to the next placed team (1st: 30 pts, 2nd: 29 pts etc.)Confirmed ÖTILLÖ Events for 2024:ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Utö - June 8thÖTILLÖ Swimrun Engadin - June 29thÖTILLÖ Swimrun Mackinac - June or July TBCÖTILLÖ Swimrun Gothenburg - August 3rdÖTILLÖ Swimrun Casco Bay - August 11thÖTILLÖ Swimrun Sprint Final 15k August 31stÖTILLÖ The Swimrun World Championship - September 2ndÖTILLÖ Swimrun Orcas Island - September 15thÖTILLÖ Swimrun Cannes - October 12thÖTILLÖ Swimrun Pace Bend Park - November 3rdSummaryIn closing, we think that while it will be more straightforward to qualify under the ranking system, it may be harder for “slower” teams to garner enough points to qualify easily but definitely not impossible. We think that these new rules are an improvement and reflect the reality that there are many Swimrunners experiencing events with different partners and this new system really embraces that. Finally, we definitely recommend that teams put the World Championship in their sights and experience the sheer epicness of the Stockholm Archipelago for themselves.Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 198 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We've got a great show for everyone this week! Joining us on the podcast is Brendan Sickau. He had an EPIC Summer of Swimrunning all over Europe. Prepare to be amazed, inspired, and, of course, stoked.But first…Training UpdateÖdyssey Swimrun Austin Pace Bend is about a month away. We're ramping up the specific training for the course and getting to work in the pool and on the trails. Fun times!ShoutoutThis week we're shouting out our newest Patrons on Patreon: Sarah Booth and Peter Jervis. Thank you both so much for your support of our super niche brand of content. Feats of EnduranceIn case you were living under a rock this weekend (a rock without internet access), the Women's Ironman World Championship took place in Kona and it featured some amazing racing and amazing vibes. Over 2,000 women raced including a few of our Strava Club members. Major kudos to Kathryn Meinhardt and Kristen Waugh on your epic accomplishment!Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.A Summer of Swimrunning w/Brendan SickauIt was so fun to talk to Brendan. He's 21 years old, has long hair, and loves Swimrun. In this conversation we chatted about where that love was born, his summer of Swimrun all over Europe, got some mini race reports along the way, and so much more. Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 195 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We've got a new show format for everyone that we're tentatively calling ÖTILLÖ Störies wherein we share cool/interesting/inspiring stories from teams that raced the 2023 edition of ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. First up is Team Monkey Sea Monkey Run. Sarah and Viv are an American team that raced their first Swimrun only 12 months ago and found themselves with enough points to qualify for the big one! In this conversation we chat about how they took the news that they got in, how they trained from afar and got ready for the big day, and, of course, how the race went for them. This was an inspiring conversation that we're stoked to share with all of you!Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

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Welcome to episode 192 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!“Oops, [we] did it again!” - Britney SpearsIn this episode, we will be sharing our race report for the 2023 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. We are recording this the day after the race so it will likely come off a bit stream-of-consciousness-y but hey that's show business! We feel extremely blessed to be able to come back to Sweden to race on the magical course that started it all. In short, we had another great day on the Archipelago and, as expected, our love for the sport of Swimrun and the Swimrun community at large runs even deeper. Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 191 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!In this episode, we chat about our second trip to ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. We discuss how we're feeling about the whole thing, how our training went, what we did differently from 2022, and what our goals are for the race. By the time this show airs, we will be in Stockholm enjoying FIKA, meeting up with friends, and trying to get on local time for the early wake up call on race day. We are immensely grateful for all the support of our families, friends, and listeners and look forward to another amazing day on the archipelago.Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Giovedì 3 agosto 2023, ore 18.00, in diretta la 32^ puntata del Daddo Triathlon Show per parlare con competenza, e anche un pizzico di ironia, dell'attualità del mondo della triplice.Dario Daddo Nardone "moderator", opinionista il Marabaus, in arte Massimo Marabese, temi della puntata:Giorgia Priarone trionfa all'Ironman 70.3 Maine, Gregory Barnaby 2° in campo maschile, bel rodaggio in vista della PTO US Open!La Francia domina la due giorni WTCS Sunderland con Cassandre Beaugrand, Pierre Le Corre e la staffetta, azzurri lontaniEva Serena e Lorenzo Delco conquistano il 13° Aronamen, Sara Sandrini e Matteo Bonalumi vincono lo sprint di Brescia, Anita Ghelardoni e Filippo Lisi quello di EmpoliVittorie statunitensi allo Starvation Xtreme Triathlon di Salt Lake City, tappa dell'XTRI World Tour. E ora pronti per il Norseman!Lo spettacolo dell'Alpe d'Huez Triathlon, nella distanza lunga trionfano i francesi Jeanne Collonge e Nathan GuerbeurIl caso Thomas Steger, sanzionato per possesso di sostanza proibitaLe gare del prossimo week end, focus su:In Italia, sprint a Piediluco e gare di cross triathlon giovanili a PredazzoLo spettacolo della PTO US Open Milwaukee, due giorni di grandi scontri: Frodo vs Blu la sfida più attesaGli Europei Ironman 70.3 a Tallinn con il nostro Ale Fabian unico azzurro al viaIl trio del Doloteam, il Dega, Nick Duchi e Vale D'Angeli, al via dell'Ironman 70.3 GdyniaIn Turchia, 13 azzurri (6 Elite/U23 e 7 Junior) impegnati nell'Europe Triathlon Sprint & Relay Championships BalikesirIn Corea del Sud, World Triathlon Cup Yeongdo senza azzurriLo spettacolo del mitico Norseman Xtreme Triathlon, diversi gli italiani in start list, Matteo Fontana purtroppo non ci sarà per infortunioLa "prima" del Challenge London e poi ancora XTERRA, OtillO, Ostseeman...... E molto altro!Tutte le puntate del Daddo Triathlon Show qui: https://www.mondotriathlon.it/daddoSostieni il tuo Mondo Triathlon: https://bit.ly/donatri#daddocè #mondotriathlon #ioTRIamo ❤️#triathlon #trilife #fczstyle #passionetriathlon

Welcome to episode 186 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!This week we are sharing the final installment in our three part series providing a detailed overview of the ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship course. Sept. 4th is fast approaching and we are officially super stoked for the big day! In this episode we cover the final third-ish of the legendary course from the start of the run on the island of Ornö through to the finish line on the island of Utö.Joining us for this discussion is the Godfather himself, Andy Hewitt. Few people have done more to spread the gospel of Swimrun in the United States than Andy and he also just so happens to be racing ÖTILLÖ for the ninth year in a row this year. He's a wealth of knowledge on all things Swimrun, his pronunciation of Swedish names is way, way better than ours, and we are lucky to call him a friend.Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 185 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We're back with part two of our three part series providing a detailed course overview of ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. The big day is less than two months away and if you're like us, one way to keep the nerves at bay is to get as prepared as possible for the adventure that awaits in Sandhamn on Sept. 4th. In this episode we cover the middle third-ish of the legendary course from the start of the run on the island of Nämdö through until making landfall on the island of Ornö.Joining us for this discussion is the one and only Jenny Ramstedt. Not only is she one of the best Swimrunners in the world, she is also one of the best humans and we are stoked to have her on the show to get her take on the course that she knows like the back of her hand.Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 181 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We've got a great show for everyone this week. Joining us just a few days after ÖTILLÖ Utö is the new ÖTILLÖ race director, Staffan Björklund. We had a wide ranging conversation about his stout adventure racing and Swimrun roots, his love for the sport and what the future holds as he begins to write the next chapter in the storied history of ÖTILLÖ.But first…Training UpdateÖdyssey Swimrun Casco Bay is just a few weeks away and stoke levels are very high for our first race of the year. We had a big week of training with some long swims, long runs, and Monday Swimruns. Only another week or so of giving it the gas before we start tapering. ShoutoutThis week we are shouting out our three new LTBz Patrons on Patreon. Thank you Liza, Mike and Tom. We really appreciate your support of our brand of super niche content!Wisdom Nugget of the WeekWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality. — SenecaFeats of EnduranceThis week we are giving a blanket award to everyone that Swimran over the weekend. There were events all over Europe, including ÖTILLÖ Utö, Swimrun Côte de Vermille, Sjöloppet Swimrun, Love Swimrun Llanberis, Tal-Y-Llyn Swimrun, and the Långholmen Swimrun.Bonus award for Pete Jervis for racing the “Wales Double:” Swimrun Llanberis on Saturday and Tal-Y-Llyn Swimrun on Sunday. Strong work!Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.Show BusinessIf you're racing Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay in a few weeks–or just love hearing the sound of our voices–make sure to check out our bonus course preview episode that is out now! Spoiler alert: we got confirmation that the 2023 courses will be the same as 2022 so we will be re-sharing a leg by leg breakdown by the one and only John Stevens.Staffan Björklund, ÖTILLÖ Race DirectorIt was really great to chat with Staffan just a few days after Utö, his first official event as the new race director for ÖTILLÖ. In this conversation we talked about Michael and Mats's legacy and their impact on him, his vast Swimrun experience and love for the sport, ÖTILLÖ's plans for the future, and so much more. We appreciated his candor and it's safe to say that he's super stoked on Swimrun just like the rest of us. Enjoy!~~~That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Every now and again we come across someone whose thoughts or writings completely align with our own. If this has happened to you, you'll probably recall nodding in agreement as you listen to them speak or read their article. One such individual is Gordo Byrn, a chap whose musings and blog posts I have been reading since the late 90's. He went from average age grouper in 1999 (11-hr Ironman finish) to a top long distance pro triathlete, finishing 2nd at both Ironman Canada and Ironman New Zealand. He also won the legendary Ultraman event in Hawaii and the OtillO swim/run event in Sweden. Gordo then took 10 years out of the sport to raise his children, but now he's back and aiming to find out what he can achieve as a 54-year old athlete. His project is called 1000 day pacing where he promotes the benefits of long term planning (something I've spoken about frequently in the past) rather than the current trend of trying to achieve huge goals in a few short months and dealing with the pressure this brings.   We cover a whole range of topics, and Gordo shares the adjustments he's made as an older athlete, along with his wisdom on how age group athletes can best prepare for long distance events. We also discuss:   Working with many coaches and learning that there are no secrets For Ironman athletes - why you have to learn to swim and bike slower to deliver your best run Building a foundation, and the benefits of the 'Basic Week' approach to training Training camps - Why the week after tells you how beneficial it really was All triathletes - It's the day to day work that counts, not the hero sessions If you'd like to find out more about Gordo, he recommends these channels:   Landing Page: https://1000daypacing.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/feelthebyrn1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@feelthebyrn   There are some fantastic Gordo insights at this page. Gordo's articles are concise with great content and cover a wide range of topics - triathlon, health, wealth, parenting and more.   If you'd like to subscribe and get more in-depth content go to: Endurance Essentials: https://feelthebyrn.substack.com True Wealth: https://truewealth.substack.com   Gordo mentioned this free eBook in the conversation. It's by 10k speed skating world record holder Nils van der Poel and it's excellent! How To Skate A 10K   In line with many previous guests, Gordo also nominated his favourite book: Jason Koop's Training Essentials for Ultrarunning - the lessons apply much more broadly than running long.   Join our SWAT/High Performance Human tribe using this link, with a happiness guarantee! You can watch a brief video about the group by going to our website here, and join our SWAT High Performance Human tribe here. Purchase a copy of my High Performance Human e-book featuring more than 30 top tips on how to upgrade your life. If you would like to help offset the cost of our podcast production, we would be so grateful. Please click here to support the HPH podcast. Thank you! Visit Simon's website for more information about his coaching programmes. Links to all of Simon's social media channels can be found here.  For any questions please email Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com.

Welcome to episode 158 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We have a great show this week. Joining us in Studio G is the one and only Amanda Nilsson. She is one of the world's best Swimrunners and is just an amazing person. We had a great chat (it was her first-ever podcast interview) and we can't wait to share our conversation with all of you.But first…Training UpdateOver the past week, California has been experiencing a rain-pocalypse and it's been hard to rally to train outside in the torrential rains and gusty winds. Luckily, we're still at the beginning of our first build phase of the year so there's plenty of time to get after it.Shoutout/Feats of EnduranceWe're doing a combo this week to shoutout our friend, Henrik Forssell, for both doing a Swimrun…in January…in Sweden but also for doing at least one Swimrun a month for 27 consecutive months!! It's at once genius and insane to get out there in Stockholm year round. An impressive feat for sure and worthy of us making him the second inductee into the LTBz Feats of Endurance Hall of Fame. (Amber Ferreira is the other inductee) Congrats buddy!Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.This Week in SwimrunNow for the “news.”Hero Swimrun recently unveiled a new logo and announced the date of this year's Swimrun: April 15, 2023. If possible, make your way to Rio de Janeiro and report back! By the way, you can learn more about Hero Swimrun and its founder Fabio Iskandarian on Episode 61 of the show.Swimrun Portugal has shared their 2023 race calendar. They will be putting on 7 races this year starting with their Azores race on March 4th and closing the season with their Madeira race on October 15th. By the way, you can learn more about Swimrun Portugal and its founder Bruno Safara on Episode 35 of the show.Last, but not least, As Keen As Mustard Events has set their four races for 2023. They are also putting on a “Mustard Training and Kit Testing” event on June 3rd at Sibson Lake in the town of Stibbington. This is such a great idea to get folks new to Swimrun to try things out outside in a supportive environment. Good stuff! By the way, you can learn more about As Keen As Mustard and the mother/daughter duo, Nicky and Chelsey Bailey, on Episode 56 of the show.That's it for this week. Reach out to us if there's any Swimrun news that you'd like for us to share on the show.Show BusinessWe have a lot of new people listening to the show so we wanted to share some of the resources that we have for folks just getting into the sport. On our website we have gear guides, DIY tutorials, episode summaries, LTBz swag and a lot more. You can also check out our Youtube channel for videos on all kinds of stuff. On Facebook, we have a Swimrun Swap Meet for selling/buying/borrowing Swimrun gear. Finally, make sure to check out our instagram meme page @thelowtideboyz for (nearly) daily hilarity, mini-gear reviews, show announcements, and other random stuff.Amanda NilssonIt was so great to chat with Amanda. She's an incredible athlete and hearing how she improved her swimming to match her amazing running was super inspiring. In this conversation we chatted about how she found Swimrun, where she finds her intense drive to compete, what it's like to race with some of the best Swimrunners in the world, and a lot more. We say this a lot but she is so easy to root for and we look forward to seeing her Swimrun exploits in 2023.Enjoy!That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 157 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!Happy New Year everyone! In our annual tradition of setting the bar way too high for ourselves, we have a great show lined up to kick off 2023. Joining us this week are the 2022 World Champions and the only Men's team to go undefeated in every event of the ÖTILLÖ World Series. Of course we are talking about none other than Hugo Tormento and Max Andersson, A.K.A., Team Ark Swimrun Hugo and Max. This was a super fun conversation and we can't wait to share it with all of you.But first…Training UpdateWe're still in off-season mode but our race calendar is starting to come together and it looks like our first Swimrun event will be in May at Bend Racing's new Sunriver Swimrun in Bend, Oregon.ShoutoutsIn our Gear of the Year Awards episode with the Swimrun Labs we put out a call for gear ideas that don't exist yet and we got some awesome responses. We will save the details for the next edition of Gear Talk but we wanted to shoutout some of the folks that had great/creative/violative of the laws of physics/genius ideas. In no particular order: shoutouts to Katie, Pepe, Brendan, Henrik (a.k.a. Swimrun Pappa), Naomi, and Matt.Feats of EnduranceThis week's Feats of Endurance winner is Vlad Caireac. He posted a workout from his native Moldova. He is our first Strava Club member from this Eastern European country and we're here for it! Thanks for joining the club.Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club (which just passed 500 members!!!) and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.This Week in SwimrunWe are going to get back into the swing of things for this segment but wanted to share a quick update on our plans for the show in 2023. Last year we focused a lot on our own Swimrun journey to ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship with our Countdown to ÖTILLÖ series and while we are planning on heading back to Sweden this year for another bite at that apple (if we re-qualify), we aren't planning on emphasizing our personal journey as much. Rather, we are re-focusing on helping grow the sport and showcase why we think that the sport is so great and why everyone with any propensity for swimming and running should try it. In that vein, we will be producing more "course preview" episodes for races on our bucket list, since living vicariously is the best we can hope for given our family and work responsibilities. We will also be producing more content specifically for beginners that we will be featuring in our IG and YouTube feeds.Now for the “news.”In the bummer department, Ödyssey Swimrun recently announced that their Coastal Dunes race which was scheduled for early March was forced to be canceled due to permitting issues. All registered participants have been notified.In other (non-bummer) Ödyssey news, they have opened registration for all their 2023 events which include Casco Bay, Mackinac Island, Orcas Island, and Austin. If that wasn't enough for you, registration for all their events is 30% off through the month of January! Time for a short PSA: As someone who's worked in the endurance space for almost a decade I can tell you that putting on races, and especially Swimrun events, is a painstaking and expensive process with very little guarantee of success early on and most races are, in effect, crowdsourced by registration revenue. Registering early (and often) helps make sure that the events that we know and love keep happening year after year. Moral of the story, register for your Swimrun events early, save money, and help race directors put on amazing events.Over in Sweden, ÖTILLÖ announced that their Isles of Scilly event will not take place in 2023. They also mentioned that a new race destination will be announced in like 100 days from now. Our investigative team is hard at work trying to figure out the destination and so far we are pretty sure that the event will be in the Northern Hemisphere. More details forthcoming on that!In other ÖTILLÖ news, registration for the 2023 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship via Swimrun ranking points is open! The registration window is open until January 20, 2023 and teams will be informed on February 2nd (Swimrun Christmas) on whether they will be spending a 9 months obsessing about the Stockholm Archipelago.Finally, want to hang out and train with one of the best Swimrun coaches in the world? Nicolas Remires of Envol Swimrun is hosting a training camp at the Playitas Resort on Fuerteventura from January 30-February 6th. Just google the location and you'll want to attend. Reach out to Envol Coaching for more information about that camp.Show BusinessAs you heard at the beginning of the show, the people have spoken and apparently we are the winner's of Swimrun.com's 2022 Maven Award (for Individual(s) who have widened participation, awareness and growth of the sport.) Thank you to everyone that voted, we are truly humbled that our brand of super niche content has an audience and that people find it helpful. The 2022 World Champions: Team Ark Swimrun Hugo and MaxWhat can we say about Hugo and Max that isn't inundated with superlatives? They had an incredible 2022 Swimrun season where they won every race that they entered, set the course record at ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship in a commanding fashion, and all the while being great ambassadors for the sport. In this conversation we chatted with them about how they teamed up, how they trained and managed to prepare for a busy racing season, we got mini-race reports from their World Series races and, of course, discussed their record-breaking performance at ÖTILLÖ. As we mentioned at the outset, we may have set the bar too high for ourselves…Enjoy our conversation with Hugo and Max, reigning World Champions and all around amazing human beings.That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

This episode is so much fun! How can it not be when you're interviewing the partners of “Team Adorkable” — the zany Swimrun duo of Amy Bush and Trista Mennen?! I've known Amy for a long time and she's always doing something epic from 100 milers, Ironmans, Ultramans, etc…she's always an inspiration, but recently, I've seen her kicking it up and, together with Trista, going off the deep end (pun intended) on this relatively new phenomenon of a sport — Swimrun…and specifically, the Ötillö World Championships in Sweden, which is the notoriously difficult Super Bowl of Swimrun.   Swimrun isn't just a triathlon without a bike.  This is a cross between rock climbing, trail running, open water swimming, orienteering, and adventure racing- swimming from island to island and running through trails, forests, or whatever landscape the race director dreams up. It's not uncommon to have upwards of 40-50 transitions between the two sports. And, you're doing this all with your equipment and nutrition with you at all times — buoys, paddles, shoes, goggles, gels, etc. It sounds SO incredibly intimidating, which is where my, "I Could Never" came into play and why I had to get them on this show.  For as frightening as it sounds, these two make it sound SO DANG FUN!!!! My mission was to have them get me from, "I could never," to "maybe I can," and you know what?! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. No doubt, they'll inspire you too!  Episode Resources: Team Adorkable: https://teamadorkable.blogspot.com/  Ötillö Swimrun: https://otilloswimrun.com/  Odyssey Swimrun: https://www.odysseyswimrun.com/  Ark Sports - Swimrun Gear and Equipment: https://www.arksports.com/collections/swimrun  Envol Swimrun Coaching: https://envolcoaching.net/  The Swimrun Experience Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheSwimRunExperience/  Wild Swimrun Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/wildswimrun?mibextid=LQQJ4d Swimrun Lake James: https://www.facebook.com/SwimRunLakeJames?mibextid=LQQJ4d  Swimrun Swap Meet: https://www.facebook.com/groups/swimrunswapmeet/  Low Tide Boyz Swimrun podcast: https://lowtideboyz.com/  Show Resources "I Could Never Do That" Website - https://www.podpage.com/icouldneverdothat/  "I Could Never Do That" Instagram - @icouldneverdothat Support the Podcast through BuyMeACoffee.com - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CarrieBarrett    Theme Music: Your Love by Atch -License: Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)        

In today's panoply of role models, rare is the story of an everyman transforming his life wholesale—then sharing his process openly and honestly with humility and vulnerability.Today I convene with one of these aspirational figures (and my own personal hero), endurance veteran Gordo Byrn.This episode is very special because Gordo is someone who greatly inspired and influenced my endurance career and mentored me from afar in ways beyond my ability to calculate.A former private equity investment banker, Gordo metamorphized into an elite ultra-endurance athlete, a student of elite performance, an endurance coach, and, mostly, a devoted family man. He's also the co-author of the endurance bible Going Long—an incredible resource for all the triathlon fiends out there.One of the reasons Gordo was able to impact me and so many others profoundly is that he humbly shared his experience on the internet as a Web 1.0 blogger and podcaster, a tradition he continues today on Twitter—a platform he uses to share his experience and wisdom on everything from endurance training, marriage, and parenting.Meeting Gordo was like meeting a lost twin for the first time, and this conversation was everything I hoped it would be.Watch: YouTube.Read: Show notes.Today's Sponsors:InsideTracker: insidetracker.com/RichRollAthletic Greens: athleticgreens.com/richroll Indeed: Indeed.com/RICHROLL.BetterHelp: BetterHelp.com/richroll.The Swedish superstar and multiple Ultraman and Otillo champion Jonas Colting calls Gordo ‘Tony Robbins in a Speedo.' I agree with this statement, and after listening to this one, you will too.Peace + Plants,Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Holly Neville, MD, FAAP, FACS is the division chief of Pediatric Surgery at Joe Di Maggio Children's Hospital and also serves as associate program director for the general surgery residency at Memorial Regional. Previously, she served as Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine from 2006-2019. Holly attended Emory University (92) where she received a BS in Biology and served as Co-Captain of the varsity swim team, followed by the University of Florida College of Medicine (96). She completed her surgical residency at the University of Texas at Houston and Pediatric Surgery at the UT Southwestern. Holly has and continues to serve nationally on various committees, including the Educational Committee for International Pediatric Endosurgery Group, she chairs website development for American Pediatric Surgery Association and serves on the obesity surgery committee. She also serves on the Association of Women Surgeons and AAP. Recently, in collaboration with Kerri Palamara, MD (MGH) and Eunice Huang, MD (Vanderbilt), she developed a national coaching program for pediatric surgery trainees. This year they began their 3rd year of coaching. Holly has also brought the coaching program to the residents at Memorial Regional Hospital. Inspired by this program, Holly completed her coaching certification through Wellcoaches in 2021. Outside of work, Holly is the mom to 3 children: Zack (21), Camille (17) and Chloe (13). She is an avid sport enthusiast, enjoying paddle boarding, yoga, jogging, swimming, and Otillo racing. She also is a home chef, and due to Celiac disease, specializes in gluten free and vegetarian cooking, occasionally publishing her recipes and ideas in her blogs hollysglutenfreehome.com and www.hollycutstothechase.com. In this episode Dr. Neville talks about her goal as a woman in medicine: to be happy! What most of us want is just to fit in, be professionally satisfied and find joy in what we do. Our purpose gets lost in what everyone else wants us to do. The reality is that medicine is based on an apprenticeship model and a “one size fits all” approach. In reality it needs to be more of a , “What do YOU want and how can we get YOU THERE” approach. Otherwise we risk losing the passion and the purpose that brings us to our jobs. We cannot all be expected to fit a cube, irrespective of which shapes we come in. People come into medicine with a lot of purpose, intent on changing lives, and somewhere along the way we get lost. Acknowledging that moment can be a “game changer”. Dr. Neville believes that one can find joy in work and life but we might have to find ways to get re-inspired to do that and rekindle the joy. "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater". Finding what works and what doesn't and taking a pause is imperative. Finding and reminding ourselves of our why .... Holly encourages getting coached and not just mentored. Coaching helps us leverage our strengths to get to where we want to be. Specifically, physicians need the guidance to give themselves permission to meet their own chosen outcomes. Holly urges us to get organized, have clear cut goals, written down, lay out a plan and have a timeline on a daily basis for personal and professional life. Intentionally choosing to be happy and occasionally refueling one's ego is a good thing. We need to get rid of our self-incriminating mentality. Holly's Happy Place: Her backyard, playing with her kids, Paddle boarding in nature. What's on her nightstand? Define your Why: Own Your Story so you can live and learn on purpose by Barbara Bray. One pearl to share: BE AUTHENTIC! If you forget your why, you forget your what and your how too. Listen to: Pretty Hurts

Welcome to episode 142 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!On this episode we share our last ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship-related conversation for a while. Joining us this week are friends of the pod Lars Finanger and Andy Blow, A.K.A. Team Old Man Speed. Like the band in Blues Brothers where a motley crew of musicians come together for one incredible show, Lars and Andy teamed up to put on a Swimrun performance. Spoiler alert: they had a great day on the archipelago a few weeks back and it was great to chat with them about how the race unfolded for them.But first...Training UpdateTraining is still in the “do what you feel like doing” stage but we foresee a mini-build coming soon for our next race, SwimrunNC, taking place in just four weeks. (If you're racing SwimrunNC, make sure to check out our course preview episode.)ShoutoutsThis week we are shouting out Sheila and Team Flying Squirrels. She is Chipper's Mother in Law and has been a die hard supporter of us since we started the show. Dare I say that no other family member has listened to as many shows as she has? Anyway, it just so happened that she was in Orcas Island this past weekend on vacation and heard that there was a Swimrun happening from Team Flying Squirrels on the ferry over. In a classic Sheila move, she asked them if they had heard about the Low Tide Boyz! Rock star!Feats of EnduranceThis week we have two Feats of Endurance winners: First, Abby Rose (a previous winner) just swam the Pailolo Channel over the weekend, an 8.4 mile swim from the island of Maui to the island of Moloka'i. Second, Steve Henn wins with just an epic Strava title, “Morning ride to Aphroditie's temple,” while on vacation in Greece. Strong work all around!Bonus shoutout to everyone that raced Ödyssey Swimrun Orcas Island over the weekend. The FOMO level was extremely high. That first swim though! Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.This Week in SwimrunWe're keeping it short this week.One of our favorite races, Ödyssey Swimrun Orcas Island, took place over the weekend and the weather looked amazing. For more details on how the race unfolded, we have another edition of Race Director Reports with Ödyssey co-founder and today's guest, Lars Finanger. Enjoy!Yes, join us at Ödyssey Swimrun Austin to close out the USA's Swimrun season. We can't recommend this race enough. It's great for first-timers and experienced Swimrunners alike.Over in Europe, Italy held their Aquaticrunner Solo Swimrunner “World Championships.” It looked like a great day out there. Special shout out to friend of the pod, Christian Götz, for a stout second place finish in the “non-italian” division just a few weeks after racing ÖTILLÖ. That is it for this week. Feel free to reach out and let us know if there's anything that you'd like for us to mention on the show.UpdatesCheck out our latest episode of Gear Talk with Annie and Brooke from the Swimrun Labs where we breakdown our gear choices at ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship, what we wish we had done differently, and so much more.Celebrations are in order! A few weeks ago we surpassed 100,000 downloads and we are honestly humbled that so many folks have checked out the show. When we started this thing, our mission was to help grow the sport of Swimrun but that does not happen without the support of all the fans that have been tuning in for our brand of super niche content. Thank you so much for sticking with us!A new milestone means new stickers! Our friend Sebastian, A.K.A. @the_radberg designed the new sticker and we're super stoked to share it with you all. #nospoilers If you want a free sticker or two, head over to lowtideboyz.com/stickers and fill out the form.Team Old Man SpeedWhen a couple of amazing athletes (former pro/could still be pro triathletes) decide to race ÖTILLÖ together and then name themselves Team Old Man Speed, you roll your eyes a bit but you don't have to be a couple of amateur journalists like the Löw Tide Böyz to know that there's a good story there. Both previous guests of the show, Lars and Andy love Swimrun and jumped at the chance of racing together…once their wives said that it was ok. In this conversation we get their race report on what was an amazing day on the Archipelago while chronicling their decades long friendship, and sharing a lot of laughs along the way. This was a great chat and we know that you will love it as much as we did. Enjoy! That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Gear Selection Recap for ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship.Welcome to Gear Talk with our friends Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs.In this episode, the gang catches up about all things…ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. We discuss the gear selection choices, how the race went, and so much more. Annie and Brooke ask most of the questions but this conversation goes beyond just gear. Enjoy!That's it for this week's Gear Talk show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions, and/or meme ideas. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

Welcome to episode 141 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!While we are physically back in California, we are very much still basking in a Swedish glow from last week's ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. To keep those vibes going, we are joined on the show this week by Helena Sivertsson and Ulrika Eriksson, a.k.a. Team Stena Recycling. Helena and Ulrika are amazing athletes, multiple time World Champions and winners of this year's race while setting a new course record (and veritably smashing the old one) in the process. But first...Training UpdateIt's nice to be able to say that there is no training update this week. We took a much earned chill week but will start setting our sights for our next race, SwimrunNC, happening in a month. (BTW, this is the last year that this ÖTILLÖ merit race is taking place. There are still some race entries available so sign up and join us at Hanging Rock State Park in October!)ShoutoutsThis week we are shouting out our spouses. We know that we shout them out at the end of every episode but they really went above and beyond handling everything at home while we were in Sweden last week. It's not easy to have to hear us talk about Swimrun all the time AND be away for races and we thank them for supporting us on this wild journey.Feats of EnduranceThis week's Feats of Endurance winners are literally everyone that lined up at the start of the World Championship last week. Just getting to that start line required hard work, dedication, and courage. We see you and we're stoked to have been able to share the day with you.Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.This Week in SwimrunWe've got a couple of updates for everyone this week.There are a lot of great events happening this weekend!Here in the U.S., one of our favorite races, Ödyssey Swimrun Orcas Island, is happening on Sunday. This race is awesome and the location is truly magical. We've said this before but if you're the type of person that waits until the last minute, well now is your time to shine…and sign up. Make sure to use the code LOWTIDEBOYZ to save 15% off of your registration. Over in Finland, the Folkhälsan Swimrun is taking place on Saturday. We keep hearing awesome things about the vibes at this event and definitely plan on racing it one of these years. Maybe next year?In Spain, Swimrun Madrid is hosting their Swimrun El Atazar on Sunday. The location is about 45 minutes north of Madrid and looks dope. The race organizers are expecting over 300 Swimrunners from all over Spain and abroad so that is awesome! We definitely want to learn more about the Spanish Swimrunning scene so stay tuned for a future episode about that.That is it for this week. Feel free to reach out and let us know if there's anything that you'd like for us to mention on the show.UpdatesTwo new videos over on our YouTube channel. A Cabbing down overview, tips, and step-by-step guide and an overview and first impressions of the new Ark Sports Utö Air Sleeveless Wetsuit.Check out our Gear Talk: Quick Hits Reels on our IG. We've been getting great feedback on these, so let us know if there is anything you want us to cover on that front. Are you enjoying the show and want other people to find it and the sport of Swimrun? Well, consider leaving a review for the show on apple podcasts or rate us on spotify. This is the best way to help new people discover the show and it helps us look good. It only takes a minute and it means a lot to us.Team Stena RecyclingWhat can we say about Helena and Ulrika? They are amazing athletes and it was so great to chat with them about their incredible performance at ÖTILLÖ. Even more incredible is that they teamed up on the way to the race after both of their original partners had to back out due to illness. In this conversation we talked about their racing background, got their race report, and discussed how to get more women into the sport. They were awesome and we think that you'll love this conversation as much as we did.That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 140 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!“From LFG to WFD (We Fucking Did it!)”Welcome to the Löw Tide Böyz, a Swimrun podcast. This is episode 140 of the show.In this episode, we will be sharing our race report for the 2022 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. This race our A-race to end all A-races and delivered on every level. In short, the race was amazing and it was the experience of a lifetime. We had a great day on the Archipelago and only deepened our love for the sport of Swimrun and the Swimrun community at large. Enjoy!That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 139 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!This is the final installment of our “Countdown to ÖTILLÖ” show where we discuss our journey to the start line of the 2022 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. Well, the race is finally here. When this show is released we will already be in Sweden drinking Fika and finding slippery rocks to run on before heading to Djurönäset for the pre-race briefing. We have a lot of people to thank that helped us get to this point and we want to share some of the amazing pro-tips that we have received in the course of these Countdown episodes and over the years.But first…We want to give one final giant thank you to our supporters Ödyssey Swimrun, Frank Paddle, and Precision Fuel and Hydration for helping make this show possible. Make sure to use the code “LOWTIDE22” to save 15% off of your first order from Precision Fuel and Hydration. Use the code “LOWTIDEBOYZ” that is good for 15% off of your registration for any and all of Odyssey Swimrun's 2022 events. Finally, Frank Paddle's new paddles are out now! Definitely check those out if you're interested in the latest evolution in carbon fiber swim paddle technology.How's the Body? How's the Mind?Safe to say that we both feel ready physically and mentally for the race. We are looking forward to sharing the adventure on the Archipelago and it is wild that the race is here after so many months!WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PRO-TIPSWe are blessed to have been able to have so many great guests on the show to share with us their insight about the World Championship and we wanted to summarize some of the best tips that we got for everyone racing…or considering trying to quality. We've added hyperlinks to the shows mentioned in case anyone wants to listen to the complete interviews. Let's get to it!Oscar Olsson: Episode 85On the longer runs, you know you're getting to a swim leg when the gravel road ends. (Good time to start cabbing up)Take a gel before starting the pig swimStrobe lights at the first swim and the pig swimAlso, “take a fucking gel!”Get moving after the pig swim to warm up and shake off the hard swimTether on the long runsDefinitely cab down for the ORNÖ runThe last swim before UTÖ can be tricky, spend an extra five seconds to get a sense of the current before going inMarika Wagner: Episode 105Enjoy the sunrise on the first swimDiane Sadik: Episode 112Eat every 30 minutesSwitch up leading swims early on to stay warmThe Swimrun Monks: Episode 122 Eat a lot.Jenny Ramstedt: Episode 112If you have a chance, running the island of ORNÖ outside of race is a good idea to get a sense of what the terrain will be like (knowledge is power pro tip)Anna Lundberg: Episode 118Namdö cutoff is the one to pay attention toGet your suit on and organized before going to the breakfast on race morningBill Lankford: Episode 109Bring a bag/luggage with wheels for your stuff because carrying a bag the day after the race will be toughJonas and Lars Ekman: Episode 116Visualize minimizing your transitions to save time on race dayDo the race before you think you're ready for itPace your swims in the first third of the race and try to find feet to draft off ofVille Engberg: Episode 119Watch out for the swim after the pig swim because that one is usually coldTry to find a good pack to swim with early onDon't worry about not running on the first few islandsNicolas Remires: Episode 126Don't try to memorize every leg. Instead think about the race in terms of five sections and learn the features of each section from aid-station/cut-off.Andy Blow: Episode 118Don't go to the breakfast on race morning. It's a mess. Instead bring whatever food you will eat with you so you don't have to deal with that.Jonas Colting: Episode 131Don't worry about doing a warm-up run before the race. Relax on the ferry and avoid the anxious energy: Use the first run as the warmup.Do work and get through the swimsSusie Moonan: Episode 122Take a moment to look at your partner and be present during the raceWhen you feel low, Remember why you are doing the race and focus on the belief that you can do this!See you out there!That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 137 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!Joining us on the show this week is the wife and husband duo of Liz and Jacob Gilden, A.K.A. Team #batmansparents. They are a power couple out of Virginia and are headed to Sweden for their first ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. This was a really fun conversation and we're stoked to share it with you. But first...Training UpdateWe got in another solid week of training. We had some interesting scheduling challenges though. We ended up doing our Saturday-scheduled mondo Swimrun practice on Friday afternoon so Chris could prepare for his son's 3rd birthday party. We have one more biggish week of training and then we're two weeks away from ÖTILLÖ.ShoutoutsWe've got a mondo shouting out to give this week to the awesome crew at Traverse Fitness in Denver Colorado: Rob, Sara, Kellyn, Jane, Kate, Timmy, Sarah and Ben, Josh, Chris, Avery and Vivian. Rob Dm'd us a few months back and told us that he was bringing a big crew of people to Ödyssey Swimrun Orcas Island to do their first Swimrun. All in all, 22 athletes are making their way to Orcas Island. Awesome…we know! Anyway, we offered to do a Zoom call with them to answer any questions that they might have and we had that call this past weekend. We had a ton of fun chatting with them and we are so stoked for their adventure. They will all do great and we can't wait for the post-race Zoom call to get all the race reports from them!Feats of EnduranceThis week's winner is Tobias Rop of Team Max Mockermann. Life was imitating “art” when he posted a Swimrun workout from Bled, Slovenia where there's a baller lake with a castle on an island that we used in a meme a while back. Look at the show notes for the link to the meme. Strong work Toby.Check out episode 57 of the show to learn more about this awesome team out of Germany.Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.This Week in SwimrunWe've got a short update for everyone this week.In Sweden, the Juniskar Swimrun took place this past weekend and it looked like a warm day out there. Also in Sweden, the popular Ångaloppet Swimrun happened on Saturday and Sunday and it was great to see so many kids racing with their parents. There we also Swimrunners racing in Speedo's which isn't something you see every day. (Looking at you George Bjalkemo!)Down in South Africa, Torpedo Swimrun have announced their “Spring” race schedule of Torpedo Val de Vie on October 30th and Torpedo Cape Town on November 20th. They will have seven race distances over the two weekends so plenty of options for everyone.That is it for this week. Feel free to reach out and let us know if there's anything that you'd like for us to mention on the show.UpdatesWe are starting to get our plans together for Sweden and wanted to let everyone know that we are going to host a meetup on Saturday Sept. 3 in the evening at a bar/coffee shop/restaurant in Central Stockholm. Come out and say hi whether you're racing ÖTILLÖ or not. We'll post more details as we fine tune them. On that note, if anyone has a suggestion for a location, send us a DM.Team #batmansparentsIt was great to chat with Liz and Jacob. We loved their energy and candor about their build to ÖTILLÖ. It's always interesting for us to hear Swimrun journeys and theirs is a sweet one. It started as a way for them to get to do events together and now they find themselves at the doorstep of the original Swimrun. We loved this conversation and know that you will as well!That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 130 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We're heading back to Sweden this week and we're super stoked to share our conversation with Swimrunner extraordinaire, Max Andersson. We've been following his exploits for a while and it was great to get him on the show to talk about his Swimrun journey.But first...Training UpdateTraining has been interesting this week. Chipper had a great week but Chris's training went sideways after his whole household contracted COVID. He's on the mend and will be ramping back up just in time for Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay…which is just 2ish week's away! ShoutoutsThis week we are shouting out Bradley Amery. He recently reached out to us asking for our preferred cliff/dock jump technique for his first ever Swimrun at Casco Bay and we're here for it. Thanks so much for reaching out and hope our video from last year's Austin LTBz shakeout was helpful.Feats of EnduranceThis week's winner is Steve Hann from the U.K. We spotted him on Strava rocking a Ödyssey shirt on a ten mile run and it turns out that he's flying out for Casco Bay in a few weeks. See you there Steve!Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.This Week in SwimrunWelcome to the LTBz news desk!We're keeping it short this week with only one announcement that is near and dear to our hearts…As anyone who has listened to pretty much any of our Gear Talk shows knows (and/or has played the Gear Talk drinking game), Chris is a huge fan of the Ark Sports VIGG suit. Well this week Ark released the 2022 edition of the VIGG Wetsuit. The new VIGG pushes the envelope even more than the original model. The back pocket is re-shaped for extra space. Legs are updated with a new hi-end fabric for increased durability. Leg cut is also improved. New super stretch and soft collar improve comfort around the neck.Anyway, we are obviously ridiculously stoked for this suit! That is it for this week. Feel free to reach out and let us know if there's anything that you'd like for us to mention on the show.UpdatesCheck out our latest Youtube video all about the new Ark Sports KORP Wetsuit. This suit is awesome and we can't recommend it enough!We've scheduled our next Patreon Zoom Meetup for July 9th at 7pm (Eastern) time. We'll be chatting about new Ark Sports gear, holding an impromptu Casco Bay race strategy sesh, and other good stuff. Check out our Patreon page to learn more about how you can help support the show for the cost of one grande oat milk latte per month.Max AnderssonIt was so great to finally catch up with Max. We started paying attention to him when he won last year's EX Swimrun's Ark Supersprint race and we've been rooting for him ever since. In this conversation we talked about his Swimrun journey, how he had less than 12 hours of notice to race his first ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship in 2019, what's it like to race with the likes of Adriel Young and Hugo Tormento, and much more. We love his enthusiasm for sport and think that you will love this conversation as much as we did. Enjoy!That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 126 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swiun Podcast!This is the third edition of our “Countdown to ÖTILLÖ” show where we discuss our journey to the start line of the 2022 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. Joining us on this episode is the Swimrun coach who's legend keeps on growing, Nicolas Remires from Envol Swimrun.A big thank you to our supporters Ödyssey Swimrun, Frank Paddle, and Precision Fuel and Hydration for helping make this show possible. Make sure to use the code “LOWTIDE22” to save 15% off of your first order from Precision Fuel and Hydration. Use the code “LOWTIDEBOYZ” that is good for 15% off of your registration for any and all of Odyssey Swimrun's 2022 events. Finally, Frank Paddle has some new paddles launching on June 15th so make sure that you mark your calendars if you want the new hotness.How's the Body? How's the Mind?We are both still feeling super motivated for the race and our training efforts definitely reflect that. While we have been dealing with a variety of challenges outside of Swimrun, we are working on staying mindful and present and so far so good on that front.Up next for us is Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay in mid-July. This race will be our last “tune-up” for ÖTILLÖ and we are really looking forward to being at the start line for the newest edition of this super cool event.Nicolas RemiresNicolas has a wealth of knowledge about the ÖTILLÖ course and we were lucky to be able to pick his brain for an hour about what training should look like for the big day. In this conversation we covered his experiences at the World Championship, what training should be looking like three months out, gear considerations, where to sample the terrain style of the course, and so much more. This interview is definitely a “get your note pads out” situation. Enjoy! That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Holly Neville, MD, FAAP, FACS is the Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery at Joe Di Maggio Children's Hospital and Associate Program Director for the Memorial Healthcare System Department of General Surgery.  Holly attended Emory University (92) where she received a BS in Biology and served as Co-Captain of the varsity swim team, followed by the University of Florida College of Medicine (96).  She completed her surgical residency at the University of Texas at Houston and Pediatric Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern. She became a certified coach in wellness and well-being in 2021.  Holly serves nationally on various committees, including the Educational Committee and wellness committee for APSA, and is Lead Coach and co-director of the APSA coaching program.  Holly currently serves on the Board for the University of Florida College of Medicine and the Foundation for Joe Di Maggio Children's Hospital. Outside of work, Holly is the mom to 3 children: Zack (20), Camille (17) and Chloe (13). She is an avid sport enthusiast, enjoying paddle boarding, yoga, jogging, swimming, and Otillo racing.  She also is a home chef, and due to Celiac disease, specializes in gluten free and vegetarian cooking. Find out more about Holly and this episode at: www.nicupodcast.com______________________________________________________________________________________As always, feel free to send us questions, comments or suggestions to our email: nicupodcast@gmail.com. You can also contact the show through instagram or twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. enjoy!This podcast is proudly sponsored by Chiesi.

Welcome to episode 122 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swiun Podcast!Welcome to the second edition of our “Countdown to ÖTILLÖ” show where we will be discussing our journey to the start line of the 2022 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship in September. Joining us on this episode are The Swimrun Monks to catch up and talk ÖTILLÖ preparations and Susie Moonan of Push On Coaching to help us prepare mentally for the big day. A big thank you to our supporters Ödyssey Swimrun, Frank Paddle, and Precision Fuel and Hydration for helping make this show possible. Make sure to use the code “LOWTIDE22” to save 15% off of your first order from Precision Fuel and Hydration and code “LOWTIDEBOYZ” that is good for 15% off of your registration for any and all of their 2022 events. How's the Body? How's the Mind?We are both still feeling super motivated and encouraged after a strong showing at Swimrun Lake James a few weeks back. Our communication has been really dialed and we are both feeling like our teamwork is getting to the next level.Our next training block is already upon us as we ramp up the volume and intensity on our way to Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay in July.The Swimrun MonksIt was great to have Sean and Philip back on the show (for the third time) to chat about their World Championship experiences. Right after we found out that we qualified, Philip reached out to tell us that there were things that we needed to know. We are grateful for their friendship and their advice for us as we barrel towards September.Susie Moonan, Push On CoachingWhat can we say about Susie Moonan? Every time we chat with her we feel like we have gained a better perspective of racing. She joined us to talk about how to think about approaching a race like the World Championship and have a clear vision of our values going into the race and how to deal when those values are tested when things get tough. She is a wellspring of knowledge and we feel super lucky to have her share her insights with us.That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode 118 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swiun Podcast!We have a new show format for everyone this week. Welcome to our new “Countdown to ÖTILLÖ” show where we will be discussing our journey to the start line of the 2022 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship in September. Joining us on this episode is two-time ÖTILLÖ finisher Anna Lundberg who give us a her perspective on the race from the middle of the pack and three-time finisher (and walking knowledge bomb) Andy Blow, Co-founder of Precision Fuel and Hydration, who shares with us a roadmap for training our “gut” for the big dance.How's the Body? How's the Mind?When we started this show in 2020 our thought was to help grow the sport but also share our journey. I'm that spirit, we figured we might as well put it all out there now that we have a chance to race what is going to be one of the craziest events that we've ever done. ÖTILLÖ is a quest. It really feels like such a privilege to have the chance to race the original Swimrun. This is a quest that many have taken and it's going to be a thrill to experience all of it.Sitting here 5 months out, we're both feeling super motivated both from a training and team perspective. We are trying to keep in focus that we want to be as prepared as we possibly can for ÖTILLÖ so that when the event takes place, we can have as much fun as possible out there in the Archipelago.Rich Roll's 2017 ÖTILLÖ ExperienceWe recently re-listened to Rich Roll's race report podcast from his 2017 race with coach Chris Hauth. It was really interesting to hear about his journey and definitely got us stoked for our forthcoming adventure. Anna LundgergAnna reached out to us after we found out that we qualified for ÖTILLÖ and offered to share with us her perspective on the race from the middle of the pack. She is a two-time finisher of the race and we really appreciated her coming on to discuss the important race cutoffs and her training tips for the event.Andy BlowAndy was cool enough to come back on the show during his latest trip to the U.S. to chat with us about fueling and hydration for ÖTILLÖ and how we should be approaching gut training to be able to take in as many calories as we can to keep our energy levels up. He was recently on a webinar with Matt Dixon of Purple Patch Fitness that is a great long form discussion of what we discussed on the show. Here are some additional resources from PFH regarding the interplay between fat burning and fasted training. That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to Episode 101 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!In this episode, we expound upon the various ways that Swimrun teams can qualify for ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. This episode is pretty self-serving since we were trying to figure this out to determine our own chances of qualifying for the World Championship and figured that we put it together for everyone before the application period opens on December 14th.There are a total of 160 team spots available for qualification for ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. The race is held on the first Monday in September every year.To be able to participate in ÖTILLÖ you have to race in a team consisting of two persons that are at least 18 years old and able to swim. Each team member needs to have valid insurance for swimrun or sports similar to swimrun. Some other things worth noting:Your application is final and will not be reimbursed if a team is accepted. Use your insurance if you have a medical issue and need a reimbursement.You are allowed to change one team member of the same gender. This can't happen until after ÖTILLÖ Engadin.No external sales of your entry is allowed.There are five ways to get a spot at the legendary race. We will discuss each below:1. Podium at ÖTILLÖ World Series Distance RacePretty self-explanatory here9 spots available at each event, 3 for each category (Men's, Women's, and Mixed)2. Direct Qualification9 spots per eventThis is essentially like a roll-down qualificationSpots are distributed between classes according to the number of races per class E.g., 4 men, 3 mixed, 2 women3. 7/24 ConceptStarting in 2017, The 7/24 concept is a guaranteed way of getting a spot at the Swimrun World ChampionshipYou and your teammate have to race 5 World Series races & 2 Merit races in 24 months. It can be any of them and it can also be the same races two times. All you have to do is finish them. Then you apply and you will get a guaranteed spotThis way will also put you relatively high in the ranking which will allow you to apply in that category too4. Race Directors Choice10 spots at the race director's discretionTypically given throughout the year for sponsors, media and/or special circumstancesE.g., when Rich Roll/Chris Hauf qualified in 2018 it was through a director's choice5. Swimrun Ranking Points: (We'll spend most of the time on this one since it's the method that affects us)78 SpotsThe spots are distributed evenly between the classes according to the amount of applications per classIf you apply in more than one category we will select the team with the highest ranking in the respective category (Men, Women or Mixed)Reserve lists will be made per class and are based on ranking Presentation of teams on the first Thursday of February. The application opens on December 14thImportant to note for Race Directors and ranking slots:The distribution of Ranking and Directors choice Spots will be done according to the amount of applications per category (men, women and mixed) so that we have an equal percentage between the categories.In other words, if more women teams apply than in year's past, there will be more spots assigned to that category. Wild Swimrun has a great article on their website explaining how this works.  How does the Swimrun Ranking system work?It's basically a points system. Teams register at swimrunranking.com and results are assigned points after teams either submit their finish times or they are auto-populated for ÖTILLÖ events. The points are distributed based on the following criteria:The system is built using inverse property.40% of the points are based on your overall result in the race. No matter which class you are in.60% of the points are based on your time in relation to the average time of all finishing teams. This means that teams finishing very close together get very similar “time points” in relationship to their position and vice versa i.e. performance driven.Races are weighted differently. The base points are multiplied by a coefficient that are as follows: ÖTILLÖ World Series Races x 1,25 (ÖTILLÖ World Series Races before 2020 had the coefficient 1,1) and ÖTILLÖ merit races x 1,0.All teams that finish a race get ranking points.Your points will devalue with 75% after 365 days from getting them, after 24 months they will disappear completely.Your six (6) best points over the last 24 month period will count towards your ranking (this means that devalued points might be exchanged for more current points).Race Entry Fee: 15,900 Swedish Krona (SEK) or about $1,738 per teamFee includes:Transport from Stockholm City to Pre- Race Hotel (Sunday)Hotel accommodation (Sunday)Dinner (Sunday)Breakfast (Monday)Transport to Start (Monday)Race (Monday)Transport of bags to Finish (Monday)Dinner Utö (Monday)Accommodation at Utö or Monday Night Transport to Stockholm (Monday)Breakfast at Utö (Tuesday)Ferry transport to Stockholm City (Tuesday)We hope this has demystified the process a bit and wish everyone the best of luck if racing from Sandhamn to Utö is on your bucket list of activities.That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to Episode 100 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We did it! It's hard to believe that we've reached 100 episodes of the show, yet here we are. We have a very special show this week to commemorate hitting the century mark. We will take a walk down memory lane over the almost 2-year history of the show. If that wasn't enough, we are joined on the show this week by reigning ÖTILLÖ Mixed Team World Champions and World Record holders Desirée Andersson and Victor Dahl, A.K.A. Team Envol HEAD Swimming.There are no words to adequately express our gratitude for you listening to our super niche show...but that won't stop us from trying. “What Does Your Show Do?”Rich Roll was asked this question when he was visiting Minneapolis to cover the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by some community activists. He mentioned that he wrestled with how to answer the question because it was so direct and in the moment. Hearing that struck us by how easy a question that is for us to answer. What does our show do? We get people super stoked on Swimrun!Our Swimrun/Podcast JourneyIt's safe to say that when we started this show in January of 2020 that we did not have many expectations. We knew that we were super stoked on Swimrun and that no one we knew had heard about the sport...except from us. Given our backgrounds in digital marketing and brand building (and crucially, Chipper's previous podcast experience), we thought that we could put out a good show, help people discover and de-mystify Swimrun, have some fun writing the first Swimrun Meme account, and we would see what happened. Our plan was to at least chronicle our Swimrun journey through March of 2020. Our first few guests were friends that gave us the “why not” answer with a chuckle when we asked them to come on. The Swimrun Monks and Team Envol Baywatch were awesome enough to answer our DMs and come on the show in the early months. Our first “get” of a guest was Christofer Sundberg, Co-Founder of Ark Sports. While this interview probably also falls into the “why not” reasoning for coming on, Ark Sports will always have a special place in our hearts for saying yes. When we got to Catalina for the ÖTILLÖ World Series race we began to realize that we may have started something when some “fans” came up to us on the ferry to show us their pull buoys. (Shoutout Colleen, Libby, and Tori!) The weekend just got wilder and wilder and that didn't even take into account the race! Oh, and Chipper got quoted in a New York Times article about ÖTILLÖ Catalina. (Shoutout to our brother and forever favorite journalist, Adam Skolnick!)We were definitely riding high after Catalina and had pretty much committed to keep doing the show and then BAM! Planet Earth got hit with a once in a generation pandemic. We weren't sure what we were going to do at first but quickly decided that we were going to try to keep the “stoke level” high and just keep following our curiosity to learn more about the sport and the amazing people that are a part of it. Along the way, we started the Gear Talk show with Annie and Brooke from the Swimrun Labs (whom we love) so we could geek out about all things gear and help answer all the questions that we had started getting from folks getting into the sport, we launched a YouTube channel to share more info about Swimrun, and our Meme account found new levels of ridiculousness. Well, fast forward to now, it's safe to say that the show is a “thing.” We have tried to foster community wherever we could, we've made friends from all over the world, we've gotten better at swimming and running, and our love for the Swimrun community keeps blossoming. So. Many. People. To. Thank.Now for the longest shoutout segment in the history of the show.First, no walk down the LTBz memory lane would even be possible without the seemingly undying support of our respective wives, Kristen and Susan. Their encouragement/acquiescence on our Swimrun journey has been amazing and we are truly thankful for their support.   The support that we have gotten from races and brands including ÖTILLÖ, Ödyssey Swimrun, Ark Sports, Frank Paddle, Precision Hydration and so many others has been amazing. It's inspiring to us to see so many companies trying to grow the sport in the right way.A giant thank you to all the show guests that agreed to come on the podcast. Thank you for your enthusiasm, candor, and perspective. A special thank you to our LTBz correspondents in the field for just agreeing to do that. We know it was super random.Last, but definitely not least, we want to thank all our listeners and fans for tuning in. We're constantly amazed that people actually listen and find the information useful. Obviously, that's what we are going for but it's still surreal to us that we've had over 61,000 downloads at the time of recording and the pace is only speeding up. Thank you all so much for the encouragement, for giving us feedback on how to make the show better, and for fueling us to keep trying to put together good content for you. Our Swimrun journey continues and we can't wait to share it with all of you!Interview with Desirée and VictorWe are honored to have Desirée Andersson and Victor Dahl join us on the podcast for this special episode and we couldn't think of a better team to have on. Not only do they win everything they touch, they are two of the nicest and most welcoming ambassadors of the sport. We chatted with them about how they got paired up (thank you Nicolas Remirez,) how they trained and raced to get dialed in for the World Championship, we talked about their record breaking performance in this year's race, and what the future holds for Team Envol HEAD Swimming.They are great and we think that you'll enjoy this conversation.That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode ninety-two of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!On the show this week we have Matthieu Poullian and Hugo Tormento of Team Ark Swimrun France. These guys finished third in this year's ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship and they share their intense race story with us (spoiler alert: broken bones were involved). This was a great conversation and we can't wait to share it with you.But first... Training UpdateÖdyssey Swimrun's Orcas Island is in the rearview mirror and we are looking forward to Ödyssey Swimrun Austin in five weeks. We took this week chill but will start our last training block of the year on Monday!ShoutoutsThis week we're shouting out Brandon Nelson. We met Brandon at Orcas Island and his enthusiasm for Swimrun was very apparent, a.k.a., he's super stoked. So apparent in fact, that he signed up with his buddies to go race Ödyssey Swimrun Ludington and sent us a really nice message while he was enjoying a well-earned post-race beer with his crew. BTW, if you're looking for real estate in the Bellingham Washington area, Brandon is your guy!Feats of EnduranceThe award this week goes to everyone that was running up and down sand dunes on Sunday at Ödyssey Swimrun Ludington in Michigan. Strong work everyone! Legend has it that folks are still finding sand in their kits.Check out and join our Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for Swimruns and stuff.This Week in SwimrunAll the news that we could find on the internet contained herein.Starting out with something from the bummer news department, ÖTILLÖ announced that November's Catalina race has been postponed to March 19-20 citing uncertainty for travel given the continued disruptions caused by COVID-19.This means that for Swimrunners seeking to accumulate ranking points for the Swimrun World Championship in the Western Hemisphere, the sole remaining ÖTILLÖ Merit Race will be Swimrun NC on November 7th. There are some spots still available for that race so make sure to get on top of that if you have aspirations to qualify for ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship.In happier news, the inaugural Ödyssey Swimrun Ludington took place over the weekend and looked like an amazing sand-filled adventure. Ödyssey's final race of the season will be taking place on Sunday, November 7 in Austin, Texas. New for this year are the addition of two events on Saturday November 6: a Kids Swimrun and a 5k trail run. We encourage everyone to join us at the start line for this race. (Make sure to use the code LOWTIDE15 to save 15% off of your solo or team registration.)In other Swimrun news, Swimrun Portugal's Madeira Swimrun presented by HEAD is taking place this weekend. We can't wait to be able to get out to race one of Bruno Safara's events! Make sure to check out our interview with Bruno to learn more why you too should be jonesing to Swimrun in Portugal.Finally, As Keen as Mustard Events recently announced that they have opened registration for all their 2022 Swimrun events. If you live in the UK (or are planning to visit) make sure to check out one of their fun and welcoming events. You can learn more about this race series and the mother/daughter duo Nicky and Chelsey on Episode 56 of the podcast.That's it for this week. Be sure to tip us off if there's any news that you would like for us to share on the show.UpdatesNew hats are coming! Stay tuned for more details soon. In the meantime, check out our online store if you're looking to show some Low Tide Pride.Team Ark Swimrun FranceIt was great to chat with Matthieu and Hugo. We discussed the growing Swimrun scene in France, how they discovered Swimrun, how they are such fast swimmers, and got an exclusive race report from their 3rd Place finish at ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. This was a great conversation and it's hard not to root for Team Ark Swimrun France as they will try to climb atop the podium again in 2022. Enjoy!That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week's episode is a recap of the 2021 Ötillö, The Swimrun World Championship. We stayed up way beyond our bedtimes to watch as much as we could live and break down the 2021 edition of Otillo, The Swimrun World Championship.The live race production that Otillo had on their Facebook was solid. They featured a mix of live-action footage, on-course interviews, and a studio production which resulted in an entertaining broadcast.2021 Ötillö, The Swimrun World Championship ResultsHere are the podiums for each division of the 2021 Ötillö, The Swimrun World Championship. For the full results head to Ötillö's results page.Women's Division Race1st Place: ARK Swimrun Helena & Kristin | 9:00:472nd Place: Wild Swimrun West Coast | 9:11:27 +10:403rd Place: Head Swimming | 9:16:27 +15:40Mixed Division Race1st Place: Team Envol Head Swimming | 8:14:57 (Course Record)2nd Place: Team Envol Switzerland - HEAD | 8:32:36 +17.393rd Place: ARK Swimrun Marika & Alexander | 8:33:50 +18:53Men's Divison Race1st Place: Team Simcoachen | 7:38:43 (Course Record)2nd Place: ARK Swimrun Fredrik & Lars | 7:44:55 +6:123rd Place: ARK Swimrun France | 7:49:08 +10:25Final ThoughtsWe are even more pumped about this race. It was really inspiring to see everyone give it their all in the Stockholm Archipelago. Special shoutouts to the team from the United States who made everyone back home proud. In the mixed division that was California Swimrun and in the men's division It Be Me Me Me and Timothy, Team Envol Baywatch, and The Swimrun Monks.That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode eighty-six of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We're honored to have Michael Lemmel, Co-Founder of ÖTILLÖ on the show this week. We had a great conversation that covered a lot of ground where we looked back over the 15 year history of the race that started it all (ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship) and looked forward to what the future holds for ÖTILLÖ and Swimrun.But first... Training UpdateThe training block has begun for Ödyssey Swimrun's Orcas Island. Running hills will be a staple of this block and luckily, there is no shortage of mountains for us to run up and down. We ran the “Ninja Loop” on Saturday (a local trail runner favorite) and we will probably be hitting that loop multiple times before race day.ShoutoutThis week we're shouting out Caroline Wolek and Patrick Reagan. They recently won the Ödyssey Legend Award as voted by the race participants at Casco Bay a few weeks back. This award shines a spotlight on athletes who embody the spirit of Swimrun: putting others above self, spreading positive energy to other racers, and taking action when faced with adversity. Caroline and Patrick are well-deserving of this recognition by their fellow Swimrunners. Congratulations! Feats of EnduranceThis week's award goes to Nate Budziak. Nate ran the Waldo 100k over the weekend and totally crushed the 61ish mile (with 11,000' of elevation gain) trail race finishing in 16th place overall. Awesome performance!Check out and join our Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for Swimruns and stuff.This Week in SwimrunLots of updates this week so let's get right to it!It's race week for Ödyssey Swimrun Mackinac Island! Make sure to sign up if you haven't already (using the code LOWTIDE15 to save 15% on your registration) and follow our Instagram channel where our two LTBz Field Correspondents (Trista and Amy from Team Adorkable) will be “covering” the event.The Zêzere Swimrun hosted by our friends at Swimrun Portugal is just a few weeks away. This race is taking place on September 5th and offers two distance options. If you're in need of a Swimrun holiday, then check out this race!We're also just a few weeks away from the Breca Swimrun Jersey. Taking place on September 4th, this race is also the UK National Swimrun Championship. We've talked about this race before and it's 100% on the bucket list!Over in Sweden, the Immeln Swimrun put on by A to Be Events took place over the weekend. The race looked awesome and we were stoked to see that the Ultra distance (that we talked about about a month ago) ended up getting enough participants for it to happen.The 10 Island Swimrun also took place over the weekend. What this 20km race in Gothenburg lacks in a creative name, it definitely makes up for it with a super hard but also super fun course. Definitely check out their Instagram page for some great race photos.That's it for this week. Reach out to us with any news that you'd like for us to share on the show.Michael Lemmel InterviewThis week's guest doesn't need an introduction for anyone who is familiar with Swimrun...but we'll give one anyway. Michael is the co-founder of ÖTILLÖ and is one of the most important figures in the sport. His (and the entire team at ÖTILLÖ) approach to adventure racing, race directing, protecting nature, and building community has helped to build the global Swimrun movement. We covered a lot of ground in this interview recorded on the eve of the 15th edition of The Swimrun World Championship and we discussed the past, present, and future of Swimrun. You can learn more about ÖTILLÖ on their website.That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode eighty-five of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship less than a month away! To get everyone hyped for the race, we asked our friend and previous guest of the show Oscar Olsson to walk us through the legendary 75km course. This episode is a masterclass and super helpful for anything racing the World Championship or just curious about what teams will face on September 6. Get your notepads out for this one!But first... Training UpdateFor the first time in a long time we had a chill week of training now that Casco Bay is in the rear view mirror. We'll be starting to ramp up soon for Ödyssey Swimrun's Orcas Island race and we foresee a lot of running up (and down) hills in our future.ShoutoutThis week we're shouting out Henry Loveless who let us know that he did his first Swimrun over the weekend in Finland at the Strömfors Swimrun. He started listening to the show to get ready and we got him super stoked! (Mission Accomplished!) Congrats Henry and thanks for listening. Feats of EnduranceThis week's award goes to Drew Wilson. This guy biked 105 miles (with 7,000ft of elevation) in Taos County New Mexico over the weekend...on a tri bike. Impressive on multiple levels. Strong work dude!Check out and join our Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for Swimruns and stuff.This Week in SwimrunLots of updates this week so let's get right to it!Ödyssey Swimrun Mackinac Island is fast approaching! The race is on August 29 and we already are experiencing FOMO. Lucky for us, we will have two LTBz Field Correspondents (Trista and Amy from Team Adorkable) “covering” the event for us and they will be sharing all the weekend festivities on our IG stories and we'll be doing a race recap episode with them as well so stay tuned for that.Another race that is giving us FOMO is Swimrun Georgia. This race is taking place on October 10 and we recommend that everyone who is in the general area of Georgia or in the United States to register! Programming note: are hoping to interview the race director Tony Hammet before the race so stay tuned for that.Up in Canada, Swimrun Victoria took place over the weekend. Lots of smiling faces at this event that offered 27km Long Course and 13km Short Course options.Over in Europe, all eyes are on ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship on September 6. That's not all that is going on across the pond. ÖTILLÖ's Final 15k sprint race is taking place on September 4 which looks like a ton of fun!Finally, Swimrunman Laffrey is happening this weekend in France. This race offers a bunch of distance options including an ÖTILLÖ Merit race distance that features a legendary/brutal vertical kilometer final run to the finish line. There's also a kids Swimrun which is awesome! This is yet another race that's on our bucket list. Sigh!That's it for this week. Reach out to us with any news that you'd like for us to share on the show.UpdatesIf you haven't already, make sure to check out our Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay Race Report episode. Spoiler Alert: we had a good race and a lot of fun.Chris recently co-hosted the morning shakeout podcast with Mario Fraioli for the quarterly “Ask Mario Anything” series. A lot of great insight about marathon and ultramarathon training, nutrition, and the importance of taking breaks that is worth a listen.Finally, we are going to be restocking the LTBz store soon so stay tuned for new ways to show your Löw Tide Pride.ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship Course Walkthrough We are super lucky to have someone like Oscar Olsson come back on the show to walk us through the legendary ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship course. He knows the course like the back of his hand and he drops some major pro-tips that are good for everyone from first-timers to experienced teams racing on September 6. Basically, he gives us a masterclass on strategy for the 75km. He's a great ambassador for the sport who clearly loves Swimrun and wants to help grow the sport. You definitely want your note pad out for this one!Oscar's World Championship Solid Gold Pro-Tips:With 24 runs and 23 swims, working to keep your transitions short and crisp will save you a ton of time over the dayDon't worry about jockeying for position on the first run in Sandhamn because the beach before the first swim is very wide and there's plenty of spaceTake advantage of non-technical sections on the runs to find some pacePlan on cabbing down on the three long runs on the course unless the temperature is very cold to make sure that you're not losing too much electrolytes that will affect your speed towards the end of the raceAlways take a gel before the Pig SwimMost athletes will be cold after the Pig Swim so try to keep moving to get the body temperature upTake energy before the swim that takes you to Ornö because there isn't an energy station until about 8-9km into the long 20km runCab down for the Ornö runIn training, make sure do a long Swimrun session that ends with a 15km run so simulate what the long run on Ornö will feel likeMake sure to notice the current direction You can follow Oscar Olsson on Instagram and definitely check out Livesporttv.se for awesome Swimrun content!That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thanks for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode seventy-seven of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!ÖTILLÖ made its return to hosting events this past weekend on the Island of Utö...and what a triumphant return it was. The races looked super fun and the fields were stacked with a lot of the heavy hitters in the sport in attendance. We are super stoked to share our race recap with you and share a special guest race report with Helena Bjälkemo and Åsa Ehrnholm of Team Helena and Åsa. They were just the coolest and it was super fun to chat with them.But first... Training UpdateOur training for our Fall race schedule is going well. The intensity is picking up a bit with several rounds of fast intervals at our latest Swimrun practice and we didn't die so that's good. A lot of work still to do before Casco Bay but we're having fun...so is it really work? Want to join us at Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay? Use the code LOWTIDE15 to save 15% on your registration. Shoutouts/Feats of EnduranceBlanket shoutout and Feats of Endurance awards to everyone who raced ÖTILLÖ Utö this past weekend. Special bonus shoutout to our friend Oscar Olsson (and previous guest of the show) for his great interviews and commentary all weekend long as part of the livesporttv.se crew.The FOMO was real for us but it was great to see so many members of our Strava club racing.Speaking of which, make sure to join the LTBz Strava Club and connect with fellow Swimrunners as they train and race all over the world.ÖTILLÖ Utö 2021 RecapSwimrun season finally feels like it's officially open with ÖTILLÖ's first race of the year on the island of Utö. Not only was the sport of Swimrun essentially born on this island in the Stockholm Archipelago but it's also just an amazing location for Swimrunning. Due to COVID restrictions the race was split up over two days with the Experience and Sprint races taking place on Saturday and the Sunday World Series distance race being broken up into three races with the Men's, Women's, and Mixed team races being split up over the course of the day to be in line with local rules. (We're going to focus on the World Series distance but you can see the results for all the races over the weekend on the ÖTILLÖ website.)The World Series distance race was 26,2k (16.3 miles) of total distance with 22,05k (13.7 miles) of mostly technical trail running and 4,150k (4,538yds) of swimming. The longest run was around 6k and the longest swim was 400m.As we mentioned at the beginning, all three World Series races were stacked with some of the best athletes in the sport and the podiums definitely reflected that.Women's Team Podium:1st Place: Team Envol Anna & Desirée (Anna Hellström and Desirée Andersson) 2nd Place: Wild Swimrun West Coast (Therese Bergling and Evelina Järvinen)3rd Place: ARKswimrun. (Helena Sivertsson and Kristin Larsson)Mixed Team Podium:1st Place: ARKswimrun (Ulrika Eriksson and Peter Oom)2nd Place: ARK Swimrun (Marika Wagner and Alexander Koller)3rd Place: Team Envol Switzerland (Sabina Rapelli and Alexis Charrier)Men's Team Podium:1st Place: Öckerö Rörläggeri (Adriel Young and Max Andersson) 2nd Place: Kraken Swimrun (Pontus Lindberg and George Bjälkemo)3rd Place: ARKswimrun 1 (Lars Ekman and Fredrik Axegård)Overall, the weather was perfect for race weekend and the vibe of the entire event was one of celebration. This event has been a long time coming for Michael, Mats, and the rest of the ÖTILLÖ team and we're super stoked that they are back to hosting events! Congrats to everyone that raced over the weekend and we can't wait to be at the starting line of this race at some point in the (hopefully) near future.Special Race Report with Team Helena & ÅsaIt was really fun to sit down with Helena Bjälkemo and Åsa Ehrnholm the day after they raced the World Series distance race to get their take on how it all went down. (If anyone thinks that Helena's last name sounds familiar it is because the reigning men's world champion and two-time guest of the show, George, is her husband.) We've been fans of Helena and Åsa since we started following a bunch of Swedish Swimrunners on IG and their attitude towards training, racing, and the sport is a great representation of why the Swimrun community is the best!We spoke with Helena and Åsa about their athletic backgrounds, how they became Swimrun partners, and how they trained (or didn't train) for Utö during the pandemic. We also chatted with them about how their Utö race went, got the lowdown on the whole vibe of the race, and what is up next for them. We loved having them on the show and think that you'll really enjoy this interview.You can follow Helena and Åsa on Instagram.That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, and on YouTube. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.Thank you for listening and see you out there!-  Chip and Chris

Welcome to episode sixty-six of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We’re super stoked to have George Bjälkemo and Pontus Lindberg back on the show this week to chat about the film All the Way: The Making of Swimrun Champions. We think G & P are great and it was fun to connect with them.More on this interview later in the show.But before we get too far into this episode, this seems like a good time to announce that our first event of our “media company” LTBz Productions, is happening on Sunday, April 11th at 3:00PM EST. We will be hosting an Encore Premiere of All the Way for the U.S. audience that missed the Premiere a few weeks ago. Special guests G & P will be on after the film for a Q&A with the audience. Head over to lowtideboyz.com/alltheway for all the details.Training UpdateTraining continues and we’ve been seeing a lot of improvement thanks to the swim coaching we’ve been getting from Tower26. If anyone is looking to give their swim training a jolt of energy, we definitely recommend their program. Swimrun practices are on the horizon and we’ll be heading back to Lake Sonoma for the first (of hopefully many) Swimrun adventures there. If you want to hear more about Tower26 check our episodes with Gerry Rodrigues, Founder of Tower 26, and Emma-Kate Lidbury and AMA style interview with Tower 26 coaches Megan Melgaard and Jim LubinskShoutoutsWe have a shoutout-heavy episode this week so let’s get right to it. First, a big shoutout to Helene for her generous donation to our fundraiser for Wild Swimrun’s Wild Youth Initiative. If you heard last week’s episode then you know that we’ve raised enough funds for a second woman or girl to attend one of their amazing camps but we’re not satisfied with that. With Helene’s help, we’ve got a jump start on getting a third scholarship funded. You can donate to Wild Swimrun at lowtideboyz.com.Next up, we have a combo shoutout for a great training crew from North Carolina. A group of eight of them are doing their first Swimrun at Lake James in a few weeks. (They were supposed to do the race last year to celebrate Chris’s 60th birthday, but COVID.) So best of luck Chris (and Happy 61st Birthday), Bob, Al, Bobby, Ryan, Kristen, Brian, and Bernard. Thanks for listening to the show and prepare to have an awesome time at Lake James! Finally, we wanted to give an extra special shoutout to Trista Mennen. She was recently selected to be a Wild Swimrun Ambassador and we can’t think of a better person to represent the inclusive spirit of Swimrun and the mission of Wild Swimrun to get more women and girls into the sport. Her enthusiasm is infectious and she’s personally gotten a small army of people to get super stoked on Swimrun. Thank you for everything that you’ve done and will do for the sport.Feats of EnduranceThis week’s winner is none other than Chipper’s brother, Michael. Chipper has been working on getting him super stoked on Swimrun and it’s working! Keep it up “Little Chipper!”Bonus awards this week go to Bronwen and Greg from Team Boston Wet Sox for posting workouts while on their recent vacation to Puerto Rico. They ran in Chris’s hometown and swam in the ancestral waters (Ocean Park) where he learned to swim.Make sure to join the LTBz Strava Club and get inspired by your fellow Swimrunners as they train all over the world.This Week in Swimrun (Powered by Raceid.com)We have a couple of updates to share this week.ÖTILLÖ announced that all of their 2021 events are open for registration on raceid.com. We are already registered for Catalina so come join us. If you need more incentive than just hanging out with us in the back of the field...early bird registration is happening until April 13th so sign up early to save money.Ladies, save the dates of May 15-16 for the next Wild Swimrun camp called Wild Day at Utö. Pretty sure everyone can figure out where the camp is being held. There’s more info on that coming soon so sign up for the Wild Swimrun newsletter to be the first to hear all the details.The next registration price increases for Ödyssey Swimrun events Mackinac Island, Swimrun Ludington, and Swimrun Austin are happening on April 14th at midnight so make sure to sign up soon if you want to race AND save some money. Our sources (the Internet) tell us that Mackinac Island is already 50% sold out so let the FOMO take over and sign up soon! That’s it for this week. Feel free to email us to tip us off to any events or Swimrun news that you’d like for us to share on the show.UpdatesOur latest episode of Gear Talk with The Swimrun Labs is out. We do a full review of the Ark Sports KORP Wetsuit so check it out wherever you’re already listening to podcasts and stuff.Speaking of gear, we were sitting in the idea lab (Chipper’s garage) and came up with something to help everyone buy, sell, or swag new and used gear. Check out our Swimrun Swapmeet Facebook Group and help find your used gear a new loving home.Finally, mark your calendars to join us on Sunday, April 11th at 3:00 PM EST for an Encore Premiere of All the Way: The Making of Swimrun Champions for the U.S. audience that missed the World Premiere a few weeks ago. We will have a live Q&A with George and Pontus after the film. Head over to lowtideboyz.com/alltheway for all the details.This Week’s InterviewWe were super stoked to have George and Pontus back on the show to chat about the film All the Way. We discussed a lot of scenes from the film and dove deeper into their training for the World Championship, their positive attitude, and their relationship as friends and partners. We’ve said this before, but they are great ambassadors for Swimrun and they are really easy to root for.You can follow G and P on Instagram here and here and their Kraken Swimrun training and fika (coffee) crew here.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.

This week we are excited to welcome USA Triathlon CEO, Rocky Harris!  We are talking Endurance Exchange, the state of the sport, USAT 2021 initiatives and the lead up to the 2021 Olympics.   Show Sponsor: VENGA Venga CBD is not like most CBD companies who just post a bunch of products and hope you figure it out.   Venga was started in Colorado by athletes like you who wanted a better way to use CBD to help fight pain, train longer, race harder and recover faster. That’s why they created a SYSTEM of CBD products for athletes and only have 4 products that cover 100% of your CBD needs. No guesswork!   Each product is specifically made to support an area of your endurance life from training to racing to recovery. Combined together the Venga CBD system is designed to make you unstoppable!   Save a whopping 30% off & get free shipping when you buy the Venga Endurance System versus buying the products separately  - seriously, this is the best deal on the market. I use it  & thanks very much to Venga CBD for helping make the show possible.    Just go to https://vengaendurance.com/303podcast to order yours today. First-time order is 30% off with code (303PODCAST).  We've also added 50% off your first month's subscription with code (303SUBSCRIPTION).     In Today's Show Feature interview - Rocky Harris Endurance News - Draft-Legal World Qualifier Rescheduled, 3-D Printed Custom Bike Shoes What New in the 303 - USA Cycling supports Colorado Cycling League Video of the Week - Triathlon Taren on Ironman's Andrew Messick and his video about Ironman's cancelation policy   Interview Sponsor: UCAN Take your performance to the next level with UCAN Energy and Bars made with SuperStarch®  UCAN uses SuperStarch instead of simple sugars to fuel serious athletes.  UCAN keeps blood sugar steady compared to the energy spikes and crashes of sugar-based products.  Steady energy equals sustained performance!   You put in the training, so don't let nutrition limit your performance.  Use UCAN in your training and racing to fuel the healthy way, finish stronger and recover more quickly!  Use the code 303UCAN for 20% off at ucan.co/discount/303UCAN/ or ucan.co   Use the code 303UCAN for 20% off at ucan.co/discount/303UCAN/ or ucan.co,      Interview with Rocky Harris After opening remarks from Mike Reilly, Rocky Harris gave the keynote address at this year's Endurance Exchange five weeks ago.  In that address he spoke to the changes in the endurance industry and the drivers that shaped decline in participation in triathlon over the past decade.  Those with isolationist views, worked in different directions, they helped fragment the sport and outsiders saw this as a weakness.    Rocky also spoke about growing the sport and the need for the sport to represent the general population in terms of diversity, inclusion and the opportunity to attract athletes like former gym converts.  Rocky spoke about the need to embrace technology and e-gaming and what he thinks about other race formats like Otillo, Let's get into the interview with Rocky Harris.     Endurance Exchange Presentations/Courses At this year's Endurance Exchanges there were dozens of presentations to choose from.  We spoke about the ones that we attended in real time during the Exchanges.  Since then, I've been going back to watch the presentations that I missed, but was still curious to attend.  This past week I watched the replays of: Understanding Common Injuries, Dr. Hiza Mbwana, PT, Degree at Northeastern. Annual Training Plan Development Heat and Solar Load During Physical Activity Business Development for Coaches: Advanced Principles Business Development: The Fundamentals Balancing Objective and Subjective Data to Inform Training, Dirk Friel and coach Ryan Bolton We know him now as Sam Long's coach.  Bolton competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Bolton won the 2002 Ironman Triathlon at Lake Placid. Bolton was coached by Joe Friel. Objective - pace, hr, power, TSS, CTL, ATL, TSB, variability How to interpret objective data and the athlete's subjective information Objective you can see it Subjective it’s the feeling, the mood Understanding the subjective is very important and good athletes are tapped into how they feel and know how to communicate subjective data to the coach How do you unravel the lie from athletes?  Using other objective.  Or knowing your athlete.  If you know the person has an ego.  You need to know them personally.  How about when you want to train the athlete - do you ever ask the athlete to go off data and just go by feel? People get stuck on a plan without understanding how to adjust the plan if needed based on how they feel Most triathletes wants to learn this stuff.  They want to no Normalized Power v Average Power. Give the athlete power and coach yourself out of a job.       Our News is sponsored by Buddy Insurance. Buddy Insurance is the kind of peace of mind you need as an active outdoor enthusiast.  Buddy’s mission is simple, to help people fearlessly enjoy an active and outdoor lifestyle.  You can now get on-demand accident insurance to make sure you get cash for bills fast and fill any gaps between your current coverage.  Go to buddyinsurance.com and create an account.  There's no commitment or charge to create one.  Once you have an account created, it's a snap to open your phone and in a couple clicks have coverage for the day.  Check it out!   Endurance News:   Update: Collegiate Club Nationals Postponed and Draft-Legal World Qualifier Rescheduled February 19: USA Triathlon has been in regular contact with local authorities in the City of Tempe, including the Department of Health, and is closely monitoring recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding mass gatherings and events. In addition, we have been tracking developments at the collegiate level over the last several months, including continued online learning and student-athlete travel restrictions at many colleges and universities. Having taken these circumstances into consideration, and after consulting with members of the USA Triathlon Collegiate Club Committee, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the 2021 Collegiate Club National Championships.   USA Triathlon is working diligently to find an alternate date in the fall of 2021 to host Collegiate Club Nationals in a safe and fair way for all athletes, including those with graduation dates in 2020 or 2021 who would otherwise miss the opportunity to represent their school as a senior. We will communicate any updates to the Collegiate Club Committee and all collegiate club team leaders as appropriate.     A 3D-printed custom cycling shoe, the LoreOne, will launch in April Olympian and longtime bike fitter Colby Pearce has partnered with a new company Lore for a 3D-printed custom road cycling shoe. The LoreOne, a hardshell, carbon cycling shoe, will launch in April.   Lore will 3D print the shoes using scans of a rider’s feet. The resulting carbon monocoque design will be more efficient than other shoes, while still allowing a rider’s feet to move “freely and powerfully” inside the hardshell structure, Lore claims.   How much does it cost? How much does it weigh? And how comfortable could a hardshell carbon shoe actually be? For now, Lore is big on claims and short on details, but those are promised for its April launch.   The Lore team includes people who have worked in design and engineering at brands like Apple, Tesla, Puma, DPS, Nike and Black Diamond.   “We are excited to share Lore to the world,” Lore CEO Stephan Drake said in a release. “We have an amazing team that is pushing the bleeding edge of technology and design. The LoreOne is not only the most exciting cycling shoe ever made, but is revolutionary across all footwear categories. The level of customization, performance, materials, environmental sustainability, and manufacturing technology represent a bold leap into the future.”   Pearce, a multi-time national champion and record holder, has long obsessed over fit, whether for record-setting hour record rides or for his bike-fitting clients.   “The technology, materials, design and manufacturing is light years ahead of everything else on the market,” Pearce said. “The way the athlete works with the shoe is groundbreaking, and the foothold is unparalleled. The Lore project is three massive steps forward from any other shoe on the market. Prepare to have your head explode while your feet feel true power transfer for the first time ever. The LoreOne shoe will change the way you interact with your bike, forever.”   Lore’s website is Lore.cc.     What's New in the 303:   USA Cycling Supports Colorado League – Free Junior Memberships, More Exposure for Collegiate Programs USA Cycling has joined the family of Colorado League sponsors for 2021-2023.  Together, these organizations are dedicated to advancing opportunities for young mountain bike riders in Colorado, southern Wyoming, and northern New Mexico to ensure a promising future for the sport. Through developing youth cycling opportunities and cultivating leadership, teamwork, and community, and creating a lifelong passion for cycling, we work towards a common goal of getting more kids on bikes and keep them riding through life.     Megan Hottman’s First Time In Tucson Riding and Exploring While I’ve spent a lot of time in Arizona in my life, I’ve never made it to Tucson. When I began mapping out my vanlist dreamlist of places I wanted to do, Tucson was on the list. For very specific reasons: I wanted to ride the “loop,” this amazing network of protected bike lanes all over town, totaling close to 130 miles (basically, a bike advocate’s dream come true, short of visiting Copenhagen!); and, I’ve wanted to ride Mt Lemmon, a nice long sustained climb that I’ve heard about for years.   So I set up my work week to allow for a midweek visit. Because vanlife and living a life by design, on purpose, to me means maximizing the days and times during the week as opposed to only seeking fun and adventure on weekends — you know, when the rest of humanity is out doing the same. Friends, weekday exploration is where it’s at. So- looking ahead, I crushed work and adulting and then punched out for a Midweek adventure..     Video of the Week: We NEED to talk about this IRONMAN “Update”         Closing: Thanks again for listening in this week.  Please be sure to follow us @303endurance and of course go to iTunes and give us a rating and a comment.  We'd really appreciate it! Stay tuned, train informed, and enjoy the endurance journey!

This week we are excited to welcome USA Triathlon CEO, Rocky Harris!  We are talking Endurance Exchange, the state of the sport, USAT 2021 initiatives and the lead up to the 2021 Olympics.   Show Sponsor: VENGA Venga CBD is not like most CBD companies who just post a bunch of products and hope you figure it out.   Venga was started in Colorado by athletes like you who wanted a better way to use CBD to help fight pain, train longer, race harder and recover faster. That’s why they created a SYSTEM of CBD products for athletes and only have 4 products that cover 100% of your CBD needs. No guesswork!   Each product is specifically made to support an area of your endurance life from training to racing to recovery. Combined together the Venga CBD system is designed to make you unstoppable!   Save a whopping 30% off & get free shipping when you buy the Venga Endurance System versus buying the products separately  - seriously, this is the best deal on the market. I use it  & thanks very much to Venga CBD for helping make the show possible.    Just go to https://vengaendurance.com/303podcast to order yours today. First-time order is 30% off with code (303PODCAST).  We've also added 50% off your first month's subscription with code (303SUBSCRIPTION).     In Today's Show Feature interview - Rocky Harris Endurance News - Draft-Legal World Qualifier Rescheduled, 3-D Printed Custom Bike Shoes What New in the 303 - USA Cycling supports Colorado Cycling League Video of the Week - Triathlon Taren on Ironman's Andrew Messick and his video about Ironman's cancelation policy   Interview Sponsor: UCAN Take your performance to the next level with UCAN Energy and Bars made with SuperStarch®  UCAN uses SuperStarch instead of simple sugars to fuel serious athletes.  UCAN keeps blood sugar steady compared to the energy spikes and crashes of sugar-based products.  Steady energy equals sustained performance!   You put in the training, so don't let nutrition limit your performance.  Use UCAN in your training and racing to fuel the healthy way, finish stronger and recover more quickly!  Use the code 303UCAN for 20% off at ucan.co/discount/303UCAN/ or ucan.co   Use the code 303UCAN for 20% off at ucan.co/discount/303UCAN/ or ucan.co,      Interview with Rocky Harris After opening remarks from Mike Reilly, Rocky Harris gave the keynote address at this year's Endurance Exchange five weeks ago.  In that address he spoke to the changes in the endurance industry and the drivers that shaped decline in participation in triathlon over the past decade.  Those with isolationist views, worked in different directions, they helped fragment the sport and outsiders saw this as a weakness.    Rocky also spoke about growing the sport and the need for the sport to represent the general population in terms of diversity, inclusion and the opportunity to attract athletes like former gym converts.  Rocky spoke about the need to embrace technology and e-gaming and what he thinks about other race formats like Otillo, Let's get into the interview with Rocky Harris.     Endurance Exchange Presentations/Courses At this year's Endurance Exchanges there were dozens of presentations to choose from.  We spoke about the ones that we attended in real time during the Exchanges.  Since then, I've been going back to watch the presentations that I missed, but was still curious to attend.  This past week I watched the replays of: Understanding Common Injuries, Dr. Hiza Mbwana, PT, Degree at Northeastern. Annual Training Plan Development Heat and Solar Load During Physical Activity Business Development for Coaches: Advanced Principles Business Development: The Fundamentals Balancing Objective and Subjective Data to Inform Training, Dirk Friel and coach Ryan Bolton We know him now as Sam Long's coach.  Bolton competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Bolton won the 2002 Ironman Triathlon at Lake Placid. Bolton was coached by Joe Friel. Objective - pace, hr, power, TSS, CTL, ATL, TSB, variability How to interpret objective data and the athlete's subjective information Objective you can see it Subjective it’s the feeling, the mood Understanding the subjective is very important and good athletes are tapped into how they feel and know how to communicate subjective data to the coach How do you unravel the lie from athletes?  Using other objective.  Or knowing your athlete.  If you know the person has an ego.  You need to know them personally.  How about when you want to train the athlete - do you ever ask the athlete to go off data and just go by feel? People get stuck on a plan without understanding how to adjust the plan if needed based on how they feel Most triathletes wants to learn this stuff.  They want to no Normalized Power v Average Power. Give the athlete power and coach yourself out of a job.       Our News is sponsored by Buddy Insurance. Buddy Insurance is the kind of peace of mind you need as an active outdoor enthusiast.  Buddy’s mission is simple, to help people fearlessly enjoy an active and outdoor lifestyle.  You can now get on-demand accident insurance to make sure you get cash for bills fast and fill any gaps between your current coverage.  Go to buddyinsurance.com and create an account.  There's no commitment or charge to create one.  Once you have an account created, it's a snap to open your phone and in a couple clicks have coverage for the day.  Check it out!   Endurance News:   Update: Collegiate Club Nationals Postponed and Draft-Legal World Qualifier Rescheduled February 19: USA Triathlon has been in regular contact with local authorities in the City of Tempe, including the Department of Health, and is closely monitoring recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding mass gatherings and events. In addition, we have been tracking developments at the collegiate level over the last several months, including continued online learning and student-athlete travel restrictions at many colleges and universities. Having taken these circumstances into consideration, and after consulting with members of the USA Triathlon Collegiate Club Committee, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the 2021 Collegiate Club National Championships.   USA Triathlon is working diligently to find an alternate date in the fall of 2021 to host Collegiate Club Nationals in a safe and fair way for all athletes, including those with graduation dates in 2020 or 2021 who would otherwise miss the opportunity to represent their school as a senior. We will communicate any updates to the Collegiate Club Committee and all collegiate club team leaders as appropriate.     A 3D-printed custom cycling shoe, the LoreOne, will launch in April Olympian and longtime bike fitter Colby Pearce has partnered with a new company Lore for a 3D-printed custom road cycling shoe. The LoreOne, a hardshell, carbon cycling shoe, will launch in April.   Lore will 3D print the shoes using scans of a rider’s feet. The resulting carbon monocoque design will be more efficient than other shoes, while still allowing a rider’s feet to move “freely and powerfully” inside the hardshell structure, Lore claims.   How much does it cost? How much does it weigh? And how comfortable could a hardshell carbon shoe actually be? For now, Lore is big on claims and short on details, but those are promised for its April launch.   The Lore team includes people who have worked in design and engineering at brands like Apple, Tesla, Puma, DPS, Nike and Black Diamond.   “We are excited to share Lore to the world,” Lore CEO Stephan Drake said in a release. “We have an amazing team that is pushing the bleeding edge of technology and design. The LoreOne is not only the most exciting cycling shoe ever made, but is revolutionary across all footwear categories. The level of customization, performance, materials, environmental sustainability, and manufacturing technology represent a bold leap into the future.”   Pearce, a multi-time national champion and record holder, has long obsessed over fit, whether for record-setting hour record rides or for his bike-fitting clients.   “The technology, materials, design and manufacturing is light years ahead of everything else on the market,” Pearce said. “The way the athlete works with the shoe is groundbreaking, and the foothold is unparalleled. The Lore project is three massive steps forward from any other shoe on the market. Prepare to have your head explode while your feet feel true power transfer for the first time ever. The LoreOne shoe will change the way you interact with your bike, forever.”   Lore’s website is Lore.cc.     What's New in the 303:   USA Cycling Supports Colorado League – Free Junior Memberships, More Exposure for Collegiate Programs USA Cycling has joined the family of Colorado League sponsors for 2021-2023.  Together, these organizations are dedicated to advancing opportunities for young mountain bike riders in Colorado, southern Wyoming, and northern New Mexico to ensure a promising future for the sport. Through developing youth cycling opportunities and cultivating leadership, teamwork, and community, and creating a lifelong passion for cycling, we work towards a common goal of getting more kids on bikes and keep them riding through life.     Megan Hottman’s First Time In Tucson Riding and Exploring While I’ve spent a lot of time in Arizona in my life, I’ve never made it to Tucson. When I began mapping out my vanlist dreamlist of places I wanted to do, Tucson was on the list. For very specific reasons: I wanted to ride the “loop,” this amazing network of protected bike lanes all over town, totaling close to 130 miles (basically, a bike advocate’s dream come true, short of visiting Copenhagen!); and, I’ve wanted to ride Mt Lemmon, a nice long sustained climb that I’ve heard about for years.   So I set up my work week to allow for a midweek visit. Because vanlife and living a life by design, on purpose, to me means maximizing the days and times during the week as opposed to only seeking fun and adventure on weekends — you know, when the rest of humanity is out doing the same. Friends, weekday exploration is where it’s at. So- looking ahead, I crushed work and adulting and then punched out for a Midweek adventure..     Video of the Week: We NEED to talk about this IRONMAN “Update”         Closing: Thanks again for listening in this week.  Please be sure to follow us @303endurance and of course go to iTunes and give us a rating and a comment.  We'd really appreciate it! Stay tuned, train informed, and enjoy the endurance journey!

For our 50th episode we pulled out the big guns and landed Minnesota triathlon legend DKT (David Kennedy Thompson)! Coach Kris and Devon talk with DKT about OtillO and Odyssey swim/run racing, memories of his career and transitioning out of triathlon to "dad life". Enjoy!  Bumper music credits: Lazerbeak "Winging It" from the album "Luther".

Welcome to episode fifty-five of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We have one of the legends of the sport on the show this week. We are super stoked to share our interview with 5-time ÖTILLÖ World Champion Annika Ericsson. We loved having this conversation and think that you’ll enjoy listening to it.More on this important conversation later in the show.ShoutoutsThis week we’re shouting out a newish listener, Tad Derrick. He’s been going through our back catalog of shows and we really appreciated this feedback on the show. Hope to see you at a Swimrun at some point dude!Adventure Time/Training UpdatesWe’re going back out to Lake Sonoma soon with our suits on to literally test the waters so we’ll hopefully have one Swimrun loop course mapped out before exploring other parts of the lake for maybe a longer point-to-point style course.In training news, Chipper has been loving his Peloton treadmill and has been putting in some good work on that thing. Chris is still on his bullshit and putting in a lot of volume.Feats of EnduranceThe Feats are back! That means that everyone in our Strava Club is eligible to win a very prestigious weekly award (of a bumper sticker) and our enduring adoration. This week’s winner is Christian Gotz of Munich Germany. Last week he did not one, not two, but three frigid open water swims in the Karlsfelder Lake outside of Munich. We were definitely impressed! Keep up the good work Christian and try not to lose any appendages out there. This Week in Swimrun (Powered by Raceid.com)We have a few race updates to share this week.Breca Swimrun’s Jersey race is set for September 4, 2021. They’ve only opened up registration for the Sprint Course and plan to open the full course at a later date based on the progress of the UK vaccination programs and easing of restrictions for group events. This course looks awesome and we’re definitely going to make it out to that event at some point. Listeners can check out Breca Swimrun’s provisional 2021 race calendar for the rest of their events.Another race on our long bucket list, Swimrun Costa Brava, has announced its 2021 race date for April 24, 2021. If you’re in Spain or can travel to Spain we would definitely recommend this race just from the photos alone.That’s it for this week. Feel free to email us to tip us off to any events or Swimrun news that you’d like for us to share on the show.UpdatesWe urge everyone to check out Adam Skolnick’s new story in the New York Times about how a group of Nepalese Sherpas climbed K2, one of the most treacherous climbs in the world. Adam was our guest on Episode 28 of the show and an all-around awesome dude.We’ve been thinking about making some hats for our swag shop. Let us know if that’s something that you might be interested in since our wives are already flush with LTBz gear and we don’t think that they want 10 hats to wear. Send us a DM with a thumbs up or down vote. This Week’s InterviewAs we mentioned at the beginning of the show, we were super stoked to be able to chat with Annika Ericsson and share her story with our listeners. It’s safe to say that she’s in the pantheon of Swimrun legends and we really enjoyed getting to know her a bit in this interview. In this conversation, we chatted about her elite athletic background, how she competed in the Swedish Classics events, and ultimately found Swimrun. We discussed her first experience racing the ÖTILLÖ World Championship and how she fell in love with the race, and what it’s like to not only have won ÖTILLÖ 5 times in both the mixed and women’s category but also owns the record for the fastest Women’s finishing time with her partner Kristin Larsson set in 2016. Finally, we chatted about the importance of having a good race partner and how to train for something like the World Championship while balancing family, work, and life in general.We covered a lot of ground in this interview and really appreciate Annika taking the time to speak with us. You can follow Annika on Instagram here.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.

Welcome to episode fifty-three of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast!This is officially year two of the show and we have something really special this week. So special in fact that we’re afraid that we may have set the bar too high for ourselves with this one. On this show we have Co-founder and chief designer of Ark Sports, Daniel Sand. This is the guy that literally came up with the concept of a Swimrun wetsuit and revolutionized the sport when he was with Head Sports and then took it to the next level when he started Ark Sports and revolutionized the sport again with the introduction of the next generation of Swimrun suits.More on this cool conversation later in the show.ShoutoutsThis week we are shouting out our wives, Kristen and Susan, for their seemingly limitless (although there is a limit) support of us and our labor of love for the sport of Swimrun. As we embark on the second year of the show, there is literally no way that this show would be possible without them.Adventure Time/Training UpdatesWith the holidays past us, we are ready to buckle down and start making some progress on our plans for charting a cool Swimrun course at Lake Sonoma. We have maps, gels, hall passes, and other stuff lined up to make this happen. We’re also starting to plan a road trip to San Diego in March to spend a weekend training with SoCal crew of Andy, Mel, Kelsie, Sean, Phillip, and the rest. We hope that this will be first of many road trips taking the show (and the training) on the road.In other news, Chris joined Tower26 and is committed to making more gains in the pool to be able to keep up with Chipper. If you want to know why, check out Episode 32 with Tower26 Founder, Gerry Rodrigues and Episode 42 with Tower26 coaches Megan Melgaard and Jim Lubinsky.This Week in Swimrun (Powered by Raceid.com)We’ve got some Swimrun-related news to share this week.Ödyssey Swimrun has opened registration for Orcas Island, Casco Bay, and Austin. Register by January 14 to sign up at the lowest prices of the year. They also have a new race on the calendar for 2021: Swimrun Ludington in Michigan. Registration hasn’t opened for that event yet but we have two words that should inspire you to register when it does...SAND DUNES!For those of you looking for a truly epic event to race, Rockman Swimrun registration is open on Raceid.com. The race is on August 14th. If you haven’t seen the Youtube videos of this race, make sure that you are sitting down when you do. Check out Episode 26 with Rockman Race Director Thor Hesselberg to get even more stoked to take a trip to Norway in August.The registration window for the ÖTILLÖ World Championship is open. Go to their press release to get all the details on how to enter. Registration is open until January 20th so make sure that your race results are up to date and best of luck getting a spot on the starting line.Finally, we wanted to let everyone know that Swimrun NC had to move the date of their 2021 event from October 24th to November 7th due to park permit issues.That’s it for this week. Feel free to email us to tip us off to any events or Swimrun news that you’d like for us to share on the show.UpdatesWe’ve got some fun things in the works for 2021 including focusing on Swimrun teams in February, helping to promote the “All The Way: The Making of Swimrun Champions” movie in March, and hosting some  live podcasting while on the road at events (COVID permitting.)  We’ve added some new content to our website that folks should check out. Under our resources tab, you can now find a 2021 US Swimrun Race Calendar for all the races that we could find. (If we’re missing one, please let us know!)This Week’s InterviewAs we mentioned at the start of the show, this week’s interview is so good! Daniel Sand is a Co-Founder and Chief Designer at Ark Sports and is singularly responsible for the Swimrun wetsuit that we all take for granted. Daniel’s journey to revolutionize Swimrun started in 2014 when he started to design the first Swimrun-specific wetsuit for HEAD. In 2017, he revolutionized the Swimrun wetsuit again when he co-founded Ark Sports and created the Swimrun wetsuit design that is commonplace today.In this interview, we cover the history of the Swimrun-specific wetsuit, its innovation over the years, and Daniel’s role at the center of that. We talked about his rationale for leaving HEAD to start Ark Sports. We also broke down the design process behind some of the key Ark Sports wetsuits like the VIGG, ORNÖ, and UTÖ and, of course, the Keel pull buoy. We asked the tough questions about product durability and learned how Ark Sports is working on that. Finally, we talked about what the future holds for Swimrun equipment and Ark Sports.If we sound like Ark Sports fanboys during this interview it’s because we are. It's hard not to root for them. You can learn more about Ark Sports here.That’s it for this week’s show. 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Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  The Odyssey SwimRun is in the books.  It was our first team event, and our first ever tethered swim!   Covid restrictions has dampened our usual racing season.  That seems a little selfish, but we use races as life challenges.  Marathons, ultras, and Ironman races are ways to get out of your comfort zone.  You never know what will happen, but you know there will be challenges both in training and on race day.  The concept of SwimRun was inaugurated after a bet with two friends to swim island to island running in between.  It was called Otillo or island to island.  The original race covered 24 islands in Sweden.  Competitors carry their swim gear of paddles, and pull buoys, goggles and caps while wearing a wetsuit during the running portion.  The swim is done in shoes while being tethered to a race partner.  The race has caught on in other countries and the Odyssey SwimRun company odysseyswimrun.com has several races in the United States.  Winners are eligible for the World Championship in Sweden.   Michael and I decided to give it a go and signed up for the Austin event a year ago.  Covid hit and pools closed so our swimming came to a halt.  Many other races were canceled, but we got word a month ago that the Austin SwimRun was on.  So with less than 2000 yards of swim practice and no tether experience, we set out for the long course event that totaled over 13 miles of running and 6000 yards of swimming.   Today's podcast is my recount of the event.  Spoiler alert: we finished and had a great time.  Perhaps you will join us in another event.  If not at least check out our website to learn about optimal health and wellness through plant based nutrition and movement at doctordulaney.com Don't know how to cook plant based?  Grab our cookbook or get one for a friend: Plant Based Wellness Cookbook, the Doctor, the Dietitian, and the Diva.   https://www.amazon.com/Plant-based-Wellness-Cookbook-Generations-Cooking/dp/1733967702/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Q015YKRIZ3W9&dchild=1&keywords=the+doctor+and+the+diva&qid=1605094932&sprefix=doctor+diva%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1 Thanks for listening!  

Welcome to episode thirty-nine of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show we the Martin Scorsese of Swimrun hype films; the one and only Rasmus Lodenius. If you’ve ever been on YouTube at 2:30 am geeking out on Swimrun videos, there’s a good chance that you’ve been turned on to the sport by Rasmus and his team. We are super stoked for this interview and we’ll get to that later in the show.  Training UpdateSo we got back to training and had to hit the pause button yet again due to wildfires and poor air quality in Northern California. We are still going full steam ahead for Ödyssey Swimrun Austin on November 8, 2020, and managed to get some good Swimrun practices in before the smoke came back. We’re back to working out indoors until the skies clear…again. Shout OutsThis week we’re shouting out Piet from The Netherlands or as it’s called in Spanish, Los Países Bajos. He’s a fan of the show and was cool enough to fill us in about a Swimrun event in the Netherlands that took place over the weekend that he participated in. Thanks for the support Piet!Feats of Endurance Weekly AwardOur award this week goes out to the 2020 Mr. Löw Tide Böy Award Winner: Marcus Barton. He completed a 24-hour adventure race over the weekend. No big deal for him but it looked intense to us mere mortals. Make sure to check out our Strava Club to be a part of the love/kudos fest!This Week in SwimrunWe heard about a couple of Swimrun events this past weekend that looked pretty cool. (Programming Note: as more events start popping up, we’re going to have a harder time getting them all included in the show but we’ll do our best.)Swimrun Sport Nederland took place on Saturday. (Thanks to Piet again for telling us about the event) This was the third year of the event and sold out with 175 participants. While the race didn’t have a lot of elevation on the course, it looked like a fun time was had by all with three distance options to accommodate different skill levels. We although think that their race tag line was pretty good: “you swim in your shoes on and run in your wetsuit.” That pretty much sums up the sport!Epic Blue Swimrun Finale Ligure took place on Sunday. Located on the Italian Riviera on the Gulf of Genoa, Finale Ligure looked like an amazing place to host a race and the photos from the event didn’t disappoint and our bucket list of races to try just got longer.In more of bummer news, ÖTILLÖ Utö was canceled during race week due to their permit being unexpectedly pulled. Michael and Mats were as frustrated as the rest of us with the news but, as usual, the Swimrun community came through to still make the weekend special. Our friends at Wild Swimrun had a bunch of ladies on the island on Saturday to casually follow the route and the good folks at Envol Coaching have a large group out on Sunday on the course. Finally, everyone was able to get into the action to support some great causes with Ark Sports’ Dark Swimrun virtual race.We’re pretty sure that we may have missed some events. Send us an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com and tip us off if there’s are a race that you are doing and we’ll do our best to include it.LTBz UpdatesÖdyssey Swimrun Austin is just about a month away so make sure that you use the code LOWTIDEBOYZ and save 25% on your entry and join us in Texas for some Swimrunning, cliff jumps, and other fun stuff. Our friends at Precision Hydration have turned on our discount code again so make sure that you use the code LOWTIDEBOYZ to save 15% off your order. We swear by the stuff and don’t see that stopping anytime soon. If that wasn’t already awesome enough, PH has given our listeners a 15% off code for their The Science of Endurance Hydration Training Peaks online course. Use the code PODCAST15 and get your hydration education on! Finally, make sure to check out our interview with PH Co-founder Andy Blow to get your mind blown about proper hydration for Swimrun and life.Our new swag store is up and running. Head over to our website to pick up a shirt and some stickers. InterviewNow for this week’s interview with Rasmus Lodenius! It was really great to sit down with him and learn about his journey as a filmmaker and how he got hooked up with ÖTILLÖ to work on their race films. It was especially cool to get to peek behind the curtain to see how these race hype films get made since for so many of us these films are our first introduction to the sport of Swimrun.In the interview we chat about everything from his upbringing on the island of Utö, his experiences in film school, how he learned about Swimrun and ultimately started working with ÖTILLÖ, and finally his experience of his first Swimrun race as a participant at the 2020 ÖTILLÖ Final 15 event. We covered a lot of ground in this episode and really appreciated Rasmus taking the time to chat with us.Check out these videos on YouTube to see some of Rasmus’s best work (as curated by Rasmus):ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Cannes 2019 - The Force of NatureÖTILLÖ Swimrun Malta 2019 – The BreakwaterÖTILLÖ The Swimrun World Championship 2019 - SpeechlessÖTILLÖ – The Dream 2020ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Catalina 2020- Welcome to AmericaYou can follow Rasmus on Instagram and on his YouTube channel.That’s it for this week’s show. 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Welcome to episode thirty-four of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On the show this week we Herbert Krabel. Co-race director of Swimrun NC and Editor of Slowtwitch. This was a fun, wide-ranging interview that we will chat more about later. Training UpdateOur training plans went sideways this past week due to forest fires in Northern California. We’ve had to stay indoors because of the poor air quality so there wasn’t too much training action that wasn’t on something stationary.Our thoughts are with all the folks that have been evacuated from their homes (including Chris’s parents) and those working day and night to fight these fires and help those in need.Shout OutsThis week we’re giving prospective shoutouts to a bunch of current and former Ötillö World Champions that are plaining on swimming and running the entire Stockholm Archipelago in three days. That’s 150K of trail running and about 50K of swimming or basically one Ötillö World Championship each day. George Bjalkemo, Pontus Lindberg, Kristin Larsson, and Annica Ericsson are the four athletes doing this. We will try to get them on the show to talk about this feat and ask the key questions: What? Why? What?!Feats of Endurance Weekly AwardThis week’s award is going out to Trista and Amy of Team Adorkable. They’ve definitely been embodying the spirit of this award all Summer with their feats putting in some serious mileage including a “secret” 50-mile trail run on a 1.5-mile loop last week! Keep it up, ladies! This Week in SwimrunAs far as we could tell, there were three Swimrun events last weekend (August 22-23) including an Ötillö Merit Race in France. The photos looked great for all three events and definitely gave us some major FOMO. We would like to apologize in advance for butchering the pronunciations.Skatås Sjöar Swimrun on August 22nd featured a 10km and 15km events. This event took place just outside of Gothenburg and definitely looked like it had a cool community vibe from all the photos that we saw on Instagram.Immeln Swimrun in Immeln Sweden took place on August 22nd and featured a short (15km) and long (37km) course options. This race is put on by A to Be Events which we think is an awesome name for a Swimrun race company.Swimrunman Great Lakes of Laffrey by HEAD in Laffrey France took place on August 23rd. Nothing like some swimrunning in the French Alps! The event featured Sprint (14.75km), Classic (22.1km), and Vertical Ötillö Merit race (30.6km) distances. The merit race looked particularly intense with the race finishing with a run-up to the top of Alpe Du Grand Serre.If we missed any races or you want to tip us off to a future race that you want us to include, send us an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com and we’ll make sure to include it.LTBz UpdatesKeep sending in your submissions for our “International Swimrun Adventure Guide.” We got a bunch of entries and we’re almost ready to start putting something up on our site. As a reminder, If you have a great training route that you don’t want to keep secret you can head over to our website and fill out the form on our homepage.We’re going to have a couple of open water swim coaches from Tower 26 on the podcast in a few weeks and we’re going to this as an “Ask the Coaches” episode. Submit your open water swim questions to us via email or DM and we’ll get them asked on the show.We just launched our Swimrun Gear Guide! This guide covers everything you need to get started doing swimrun, well for the gear portion at least. InterviewIt’s safe to say there is no one who has spread the gospel about Swimrun in the United States and beyond as much as Herbert Krabel has over the years. He has down pretty much every type of endurance event that there is to do including being a pro mountain bike racer for a while. When he found Swimrun, he was instantly hooked. We had a great wide-ranging conversation and we think you’ll enjoy it.In this interview, we chat about Herbert’s athletic background, how he found triathlon, and then Swimrun. He recalled for us his first Swimrun race, Ötillö Engadin, and how that went. We spoke at length about Swimrun NC, his role as co-race director, and how that race has developed over the years. We also talk about the growth of Swimrun in the United States, what makes a good race, and what the future looks like.You can follow Herbert on Instagram and read his articles on Slowtwitch.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions, and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

Vivobarefoot ESC Tempest ReviewWelcome to Swimrun Gear Talk, co-hosted by our friends Annie and Brooke from the Swimrun Labs.In this episode, we break down the Vivobarefoot ESC Tempest Swimrun Shoe. Chris and Chipper have trained in the swimrun shoes for several weeks and they are ready to share their thoughts on the Tempest and get peppered with questions by the Swimrun Labs.(Note: Vivobarefoot was kind enough to send us a couple of pairs of shoes to demo and they have not asked us for an endorsement or paid us for this review.)(Second Note: if you want to learn more about Vivobarefoot and the genesis of the ESC Tempest, check out episode 23 of the podcast for our interview with Asher Clark, Co-founder of Vivobarefoot.)Previous Show Review UpdatesSalomon Amphib Shoe Mini ReviewIn the “Shoedown” episode we chatted about the Salomon Amphib shoe (not the S-Lab version) and Chris has recently have been using these shoes for urban Swimrun practices in San Francisco for several weeks and really liked them. In the Shoedown episode, it was brought up that traction was an issue with these shoes on trails but they have been working extremely well on pavement. Chris would definitely recommend these for more urban adventures.These shoes aren’t in production anymore in the current iteration but the new version is called the Amphib Bold Water Shoe and looks very similar to the version that Chris used.Ark Sports ORNÖ 02 Swimrun WetsuitIn our previous review about the Ark Sports ORNÖ 02 wetsuit, we chatted about durability being an issue since the suit is so thin. Recently Annie noticed that she was getting yet another hole in the armpit of the suit and had to fix it with Aquaseal + Neo Neoprene Contact Cement. At this point, she’s thinking that the armpit wear might be a problem if this suit is used too often.Gear Talk First Impressions ReportsArc’teryx Norvan SL Shoe ReviewAnnie recently picked up a pair of the Arc’teryx Norvan SL shoe at a rock-climbing store and loved them. The upper material is very similar to the Amphib uppers and allows for maximum drainage. The Norvan SL is a trail shoe so the tread had a great grip coming out the water and on trails. Annie now thinks that this shoe is a contender to become her everyday Swimrun shoe. Ark Sports VIGG Swimrun Wetsuit ReviewAs mentioned previously, Chris made an ill-advised late-night purchase and ordered the Ark Sports VIGG Swimrun Wetsuit. He used it for one Swimrun practice and it’s safe to say that he’s hooked. The suit is very light and uses the Running++ material in the legs, back and arms. Running in the suit was amazing. It felt more like running in swim skin than a wetsuit. Even though the suit is thin, the neckline kept water out and the suit was comfortable in relatively cold water (around 56-58 degrees Fahrenheit/13-15 Celsius) even without using arm sleeves. Note: the VIGG does not include removable arm sleeves. The Running++ material repelled/shed water as soon as he came out of the water. After observing the ORNÖ O2 and the VIGG closely, the Running++ material appeared to be a tighter weave that the Running+ and felt thinner. The seams on the VIGG look a bit sturdier than those on the ORNÖ as well. This might be due to all the Running++ material used. The jury is still out on durability but it looks like it might last with proper care.Overall, the suit was amazing and Chris now understands why Annie and Chipper want to use their Ark Sports suits in training despite the durability issues. The VIGG is a joy to Swimrun in and Chris plans to use it in training as long as the water temperature allows.The Main Event: The Vivobarefoot ECS Tempest Swimrun Shoe ReviewThe Tempest is the first style to launch as part of the “Extreme Survival Collection,” and is touted as “the best Swim Run shoe on the planet, for the amphibious athlete” on the Vivobarefoot website. The description of the shoe states that it was “[i]nspired by nature's aquatic animals and blended with modern technology, we created a lightweight organic cage to provide flexibility, drainage, and protection.” The sole was developed in collaboration with Michelin using a proprietary compound that provides grip on every surface. The shoe retails for $220.The shoe looks pretty revolutionary from top to bottom and has the following features:Sticky rubber outsole developed in collaboration with MichelinSpeed toggle for easy fasteningQuick draining mesh and recycled plastic PET ankle sock constructionBio-based Bloom EVA midsole gives additional flotation reduces heavy feet in the waterThere’s a lot to unpack here so let’s jump right into the review of the shoe.Swim ReviewThe shoe performed excellently on the swim. It was definitely a non-issue and didn’t require any mental energy while swimming. A great shoe for swimming. Period.Swimrun Transitions ReviewIn transition, the shoe performed well. The ankle sock construction isn’t tight around the ankle so some debris can enter the shoe but it wasn’t very noticeable. The shoe drains exceptionally well since the entire upper part of the shoe is basically all mesh. Chipper got scientific with the shoe and did the Swimrun Labs-prescribed water bucket test. He took the shoes and weighed them while dry, then he immersed them in water to soak for 20 minutes, weighed them afterward, waited two minutes, and then re-weighed them. (Note we had to two different measurements because Chipper used one black and one orange shoe for the test.) Here are his results for the Men’s size 11 shoe:Dry Weight:Orange shoe (342 grams per shoe)Black shoe (337 grams per shoe)Weight after the 20-minute soak:Orange shoe (426 grams)Black shoe (423 grams)Weight after 2-minute dry time:Orange shoe (415 grams)Black shoe (394 grams)Interestingly, the Black color version of the shoe appears to be slightly lighter than the coral color. We didn’t notice any performance impact but it was worth noting.The special Michelin compound of the sole lived up to the hype for us. We exited and entered water on sand, dirt, and slippery rocks and grip was never an issue. Same was true while running on pavement, sand, dirt, grass, train tracks and wood planks.Run ReviewA caveat to the run review is that this shoe is super minimal and it does take some getting used to. Chris didn’t do any of the recommended exposure to get accustomed to minimal shoes but Chipper went through the protocol as described by Vivobarefoot. All that being said, neither Chipper nor Chris were ready to totally commit to minimal-style running. Chipper could see himself racing a short Swimrun event in the shoe but Chris wasn’t into it. Training in these shoes will definitely happen. (Annie, Brooke and “science” recommend using a variety of shoes regularly of different types since this is the easiest way to prevent common running injuries.)One issue that both Chipper and Chris experienced on the run was that they got a blister on the pinky toe on the black shoe. The hot spot was probably due to where the top of front part of the shoe was creasing while running. Interestingly, there weren’t hot spots on the orange shoe.It’s too early to tell about the durability of the shoe. The shoe is really well crafted but there is a potential for some ripping on the mesh of the shoe because the materials are so specific. The material used in the upper to create some structure might also start peeling off after long-term use.Overall, the shoe performed really well on the run (blisters aside) and it was an ideal shoe…if you can run in them.Pull Buoy RankingsChipper(4.5 Pull Buoys)While Chipper thought that the shoe wasn’t necessarily for him, he thought that the Tempest was the best Swimrun shoe that he’s been exposed to. Yes, the shoe might be a bit more fragile and a bit expensive but the shoe is next level. If swimrunners are looking for the top of the line when it comes to Swimrun shoes, then this is the shoe for them.Chris(4 Pull Buoys)Despite his personal concerns with the shoe, Chris thought that the shoe was amazing and really appreciated the tech that was used to create a shoe that is specifically for swimrun. Vivobarefoot has set a high bar for shoes. He took some Buoy points away for the cost and for the break-in period required to really be able to race long distances in the shoe.Overall ImpressionsThe Vivobarefoot ESC Tempest is the most advanced Swimrun shoe in the world. It’s amazing to see the technology that was put into this shoe and how they executed something that is a game-changer for the sport. It is literally the best Swimrun shoe out there.That’s it for this week’s Swimrun Gear Talk show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.

A far ripartire le danze di Passione Triathlon ci pensano gli SwimRun Brothers, due triatleti avventurieri che amano fare fatica affrontando sfide epiche fino alla conquista della finish line.Renato Dell'Oro e Paolo Carminati!Vi aspettiamo, alle 18, in diretta con Dario Daddo Nardone, per vedere, sentire e gustarci i loro appassionanti racconti!La puntata n° 62 e tutte le altre 61 interviste già andate in onda di Passione Triathlon si possono guardare e ascoltare direttamente dalla pagina ufficiale:https://www.mondotriathlon.it/passione#renatodelloro #paolocarminati#swimrun #swimrunbros #swimrunbrothers#daddocè #mondotriathlon #ioTRIamo ❤️#triathlon #trilife #fczstyle#passionetriathlon

Welcome to episode thirty-one of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On the show this week we have our first repeat guest, Ötillö World Champion Fanny Kuhn. We chatted with her about her experience post-Catalina and how she dealt with the shelter in place restrictions in Barcelona. More on the interview later in the show.Training UpdateWe are still training for something—not sure what yet—but we had another Swimrun practice over the weekend and we’ll be doing another Swimrun adventure soon.ShoutoutsThis we’re shouting out Vicky. She’s in our Low Tide Boyz Strava Club and a fan of the show. She recently found out that she shares one of her favorite movies, The Big Blue, with Chris after listening to our interview with Journalist and Writer Adam Skolnick. Bonus shout out to the Ötillö Hype Video crew for their latest opus: the 2020 Engadin Recap Movie. If that doesn’t make you want to go to Silvaplana, then we don’t know what will. If you want to learn more about the Engadin course, check out our Course Preview episode to get all the details!Feats of Endurance Weekly AwardWe are giving our feats of endurance award this week to Neil Copper. He’s been putting in a ton of work so we wanted to give him the ole’ tip of the cap. By the way, we’ve finally ordered the bumper stickers! We’ll be reaching out to our past winners to get mailing address and get these in the mail for everybody.LTBz UpdatesCheck out our latest gear review on our newly re-named “Gear Talk” show with Swimrun Labs. This week we do a deep dive into the Ark Sports ORNÖ 02 Swimrun wetsuit. Check it out wherever you listen to your podcasts.Our new project, the International Swimrun Adventure Guide, is up and running and we got our first submission from all the way from Germany! If you have a great training route that you don’t want to keep secret you can head over to our website and fill out the form on our homepage and we’ll start compiling the entries and getting them listed on the site.In other news, we didn’t come up with any new projects this week! That’s a first for us.Fanny Kuhn InterviewOur guest this week is Fanny Kuhn. She’s the reigning Ötillö World Championship and one of our favorite humans. We previously chatted with her about her organization Wild Swimrun with her co-founder Mia and we’re stoked to have her back as our first repeat guest.In this interview, we wanted to chat with Fanny about how her life changed when she returned home to Barcelona after racing Ötillö Catalina and COVID-19 changed the course of everyone’s lives. She opened up about how she dealt with being in quarantine for three straight months, losing her world-class fitness and deciding to take time off from Swimrun (she had made the hard decision to not race the World Championship before it was cancelled.) We also talked about how she gained a new perspective for her training and maintaining balance in her life.This was a deep interview that touched on a lot of topics and it just confirmed to us how great we think Fanny is and why she’s such a great ambassador for Swimrun. You can follow Fanny on Instagram here and learn more about her organization Wild Swimrun here.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

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Welcome to episode twenty-eight of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!This week we have journalist and swimrunner, Adam Skolnick. We had a great chat with him about his super interesting life and his Swimrun origin story. More about Adam later in the show.Training UpdateTraining continues to go well. A lot of swimming happening lately and we’re ramping up to take on Nicolas Remires’s 3-hour Engadin swimrun workout. You can check out that workout at around minute 48 of our Engadin Course Preview show. That should be fun…and painful.For shout outs this week, we’re tipping the hat to our friend Ray who we convinced to come out to do a swimrun practice with us. We had a wetsuit for him and he was sold after the first transition.Feats of Endurance Weekly AwardFor this week’s Feats of Endurance, we congratulate Nancy and Denise from upstate New York that had a cool swimrun practice last weekend. Nancy also sent us a nice email with feedback for the show so thanks so much for that. We love hearing from our listeners. If you want to get in on the Feats of Endurance be sure to join the Low Tide Boyz Strava Club. LTBz UpdatesThe main update this week is that our second column in Triathlete Magazine, “What’s the Deal With the Swimrun Tether?” is out now. Check it out and give us a thumbs up if you liked it. We’re always on the hunt for ideas, so let us know your burning swimrun questions and we’ll answer them…or find smarter people than us to answer them.Vivobarefoot ECS Tempest ReviewWe also wanted to give a mini-review of the new Vivobarefoot ECS Tempest that that folks at Vivobarefoot sent over for us to try out. Check out our interview with Asher Clark if you want all the details about the Vivobarefoot Tempest. We thought that we would give everyone a short review and then plan to do something longer at some point. Our initial impressions of the shoe after testing them on a couple of swimrun practices are that they are definitely amazing swimrun shoes…with a caveat that we’ll talk about in a bit. The shoe fits true to size and were great in the water and on land. In the water, it felt like you weren’t wearing shoes and in transitions they didn’t collect sand or rocks. We ran with them on trails and road and they performed well on every surface. The main caveat for these shoes is that you need get comfortable with running in minimal shoes. If you’re already on that train, then we can’t recommend them enough. If you’re not on that train, you need to make sure that you take it easy as you transition to minimal shoes. Adam Skolnick InterviewNow for our interview with Adam Skolnick. He’s an award-winning independent journalist and author covering adventure sports, environmental issues, travel and human rights for The New York Times, Outside, Playboy and Lonely Planet. He’s traveled the world, contributed to 35 Lonely Planet travel guides and is the author of One Breath: Freediving, Death and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits. If that wasn’t enough... Adam was the ghost writer and narrator of David Goggins’ hit memoir and audiobook Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, which has sold over two million copies and counting worldwide. Notably for Swimrun, Adam wrote the New York Times article chronicling Rich Roll and the Ötillö World Championship in 2017 and the article about the inaugural Ötillö Catalina event earlier this year.We had a great conversation that hit on a lot of topics. Adam shared with us how he became a journalist and how he wrote his first book. We also chatted about how he met David Goggins and ended up ghostwriting the book that has sold millions of copies worldwide. We also discussed how Adam ended up writing the story for the New York Times about the 2017 Ötillö World Championship and how writing that article led him to sign up for the Experience distance at the Inaugural Ötillö Catalina in 2020. Finally, we chatted about Adam about becoming father in a few months and how plans to keep swimrunning.You can learn more about Adam on his website. You can also listen to Adam on the Rich Roll Podcast “Roll On” episodes twice a month.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

Welcome to episode twenty-five of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show, we have Andy Blow, the Co-founder of Precision Hydration. We did a major deep dive into hydration for Swimrun and chat about his quest to solve his own performance issues and how that led him to start PH. More on that later in the show. But we have to tell everyone that Andy was cool enough to set up a discount code for our listeners for 15% off online orders with the code LOWTIDEBOYZ. This code is good through the end of July so place an order and help make us look good while properly hydrating for your training and racing.We have dual shout outs this week! First, we wanted to give a shout out to Tim Fleming of the Endurance Performance Training Center in Mill Valley. As prep for our interview with Andy for this week’s show, he hooked us up with an appointment to get a legit/advanced sweat test. Tim conducted the test and was incredibly knowledgeable. We learned a ton and could have chatted with him for hours. We really appreciated all the time he gave us and we will definitely have him on the show at some point because he is a wealth of knowledge on all things endurance performance.Second, we wanted to give a special shout out to an entire country. The country of Japan has started listening to our Swimrun 101 episode this last week at a super high rate. Somehow the word got out and a bunch of swimrunners or soon to be swimrunners are going to be getting after it in Japan. Konnichiwa and Arigato!We wanted to remind everyone to join our Low Tide Boyz Strava Club. It’s been a fun way to see what everyone is up to training and racing-wise and we make a promise that every person in that group is guaranteed to get kudos from us. So if anyone really wants an extra two kudos for every workout plus the probability of funny comments from us, join up.Now for some exciting news, our pool has finally opened! (Queue the pearly gates music) We are excited to destroy our shoulders and build back up our swim fitness. We are loosely following a training plan from an article from Triathlete Magazine about returning to swimming after a long layoff. Speaking of Triathlete Magazine, make sure to check out our monthly column on all things Swimrun! If you have any suggestions for topics or have questions that you want to be answered, feel free to reach out to us.Now for this week’s interview! Andy Blow has a few top 10 Ironman and 70.3 finishes and an Xterra World Age Group title to his name. He has a degree in Sport and Exercise Science and was once the Team Sports Scientist for Benetton and Renault F1 teams. He raced his first Swimrun (the Ötillö World Championship) in 2014. He founded Precision Hydration in 2011 to help athletes solve their hydration issues. PH became a sponsor and official hydration partner for Ötillö in 2017.Andy’s draw to Swimrun was the idea of being able to race in pairs. After knee surgery and essentially backing away from triathlon, he asked his training partner Elliot if he wanted to check it out. They then reached out to Mats and Michael at Ötillö to get into the 2014 race. (They finished in the top 10) Part of the attraction to Swimrun for Andy was the wild west/infancy stage and the adventure.We chatted about how he started PH by basically trying to diagnose and solve his own fueling problems in races. The idea for the company took shape after helping a bunch of athletes with a lot of success. We also chatted about the misconceptions about hydration and how a lot of symptoms that athletes experience during and after events can be solved by taking proper amounts of sodium. We did a deep dive into how to calculate sweat rate and properly hydrate and how to unlock better race performances. We broke down the different theories around hydration and why hydration now can be much more individualized and effective. Andy explained to us why they designed their products to have three levels of sodium formulas—1500, 1000, 500—and how to determine which to use and when.Finally, we talked about how to properly hydrate endurance events generally (they have a great blog post on their website about this) and specifically for Swimrun. Since teams are limited in what they can carry onboard, properly using aid stations to make sure that sodium levels are kept at optimal levels. We closed out the conversation talking about how to properly recover sodium levels after workouts.Andy and the Low Tide Boyz encourage everyone to take a free sweat test on the PH website and reach out to them with questions at hello@precisionhydration.com. PH also provides free consultations to help individuals get their hydration strategy dialed in which is super cool! Don’t forget to use the discount code LOWTIDEBOYZ that’s good for 15% off through the end of July!That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

 Welcome to episode twenty-two of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show we have Erika Rosenbaum. She’s a key historical figure in the sport of Swimrun with two claims to fame: she coined the word swimrun and produced the first swimrun event (Swimrun Hellas) that wasn’t Ötillö in 2012. She’s an amazing human being and we really enjoyed chatting with her. We wanted to give a shout out this week to Iain from the UK. He’s given us great feedback on the show and explained the UK Swimrun scene to us. There are certainly some events that we’ll want to check out there in the future. Thanks for taking the time to write us Iain!We also just dropped another bonus swimrun gear review episode. We reviewed the ARK Keel swimrun pull buoy. Now for this week’s interview. After starting a family, Erika started running in 2007 to get back into shape. She started running and it turns out that she was good at it. She then turned to triathlon and raced her first Ironman distance event in 2010 after mastering the Olympic distance. (She has since raced 8 Ironman distance events) She’s a running coachShe raced her first swimrun race in 2011: Ötillö (The only swimrun event in the world.) And she just loved that race! She came home after a 3rd podium finish thinking of how this activity has to be available to all people, not only the long-distance athletes. So she said that this has to be a sport and it’s going be called “Swimrun.” (She has since raced the World Championship 5 times and finished third place three times!)First, she thought the sound of the word Swimrun was really corny, but every word she came up with was corny so she said Swimrun 100 times to herself so it would sound more normal. She then sent out invitations to Swimrun Hellas, made the course and started to bake. The first race was in June 2012 and many of the competitors from then are still racing. That race was officially the first swimrun event that wasn’t the Ötillö World Championship. More on Swimrun Hellas later in the show.She now races marathons and swimrun events with her daughter Maja and hopes to race the Ötillö World Championship with her one day.When she first heard about Ötillö she thought that it sounded impossible, so it was definitely the race for her. She instantly fell in love with the sport, the Stockholm Archipelago and being in nature. She also loved not having to have as much gear as triathlon.  At that race, she had the epiphany that this sport should be accessible to everyone and there should be shorter races for people to discover swimrun without having to commit to race 75km.After coining the name swimrun, Erika had thoughts about trademarking the name. Instead she had a conversation with Michael Lemmel and Mats Skott of Ötillö and she agreed when they asked her to use the name for their event. Other events also reached out to her to use the name and she said yes. She, in effect, gave a name to the sport and then shared it with the world so that the sport could grow. Now there are 1,500 swimrun events in the world.Erika is happy with how the sport has been growing and really appreciates the attention to every detail that Ötillö takes with each of their events. It’s been fun to see all the races popping up all over the world. Swimrun is such a great way to for people to exercise and be with nature. She now races swimrun events one or two times per year with her daughter.In 2012, when she started Swimrun Hellas, her goal was create a course that people could try out the sport and do “social sport.” Hellas is a national park near Stockholm with a marked course that people can go visit and train for swimrun. Her event sees World Championship winners racing alongside beginners and sharing the love for the sport with everyone. By creating the first short-course swimrun event, Erika was the catalyst for the evolution and growth of the sport that we all enjoy and love today.We encourage everyone to check out the Swimrun Hellas website, Erika’s Swimrun Family facebook page and follow Erika on Instagram.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

Tom Clifford interviews Kristen Jeno a coach, event director and SwimRun guru. Kristen has a long list of accolades for SwimRun as an athlete but she is also a SwimRun race director for SwimRun Lake James and race director of Swim the Loop 3.5 mile swim. Kristen has done the Otillo world championships, the 2016 SwimRun Georgia, 2016 SwimRun Casco Bay – 4th place female team, 2016 SwimRun Hanging Rock – 3rd place female team, 2017 SwimRun Casco Bay – 2nd place female team, 2017 SwimRun Hanging Rock – 1st place female team, 2018 SwimRun Hanging Rock – 1st place female team, 2019 Rockman SwimRun. Kristen and Tom discuss how to get into the sport, what it all entails, some tips on training, what its like to train with a partner, and equipment needed. Learn about SwimRun and maybe you'll want to add it to your bucket list for the journey and experience or to really race it and take it on as your new sport. You never know! EMBRACE THE CHALLENGE #IAMWITHOUTLIMITS --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wol-runners-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wol-runners-podcast/support

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Welcome to the first ever Low Tide Boyz swimrun gear review! This week we are reviewing the blueseventy Alliance Swimrun Wetsuit.blueseventy was cool enough to send us a couple of suits to put through the paces and they gave us their blessing to do an unbiased review based on our experience and, admittedly mediocre, athletic abilities. Check out the suit at blueseventy.com and remember to use the discount code SWIMRUN for 20% off anything in the store.The SuitOverall, the blueseventy Alliance swimrun wetsuit is a great suit. With a bunch of key swimrun features such as two internal pockets, front zipper, built-in tether loops, large back pocket and rubberized neoprene for durability, this suit is definitely versatile and durable. It comes with fully taped long sleeves that athletes can cut to their desired length. (We didn’t cut the suits for reasons we’ll explain later.) The blueseventy Alliance is available in men’s and women’s specific styles and retails for $270. This price point already makes this a very economical suit that is built to last. It comes in one colorway, black with orange elements. We weren’t huge fans of the orange but it is great for visibility in open water so we can’t knock it that much for that. The TestWe tested the suits while doing our swimrun trainings leading up to Ötillö Catalina in the Bay Area. The water temps were pretty chilly and in all, we spent about 3-4 hours in the suits putting it through the paces of swimming, running and transitions.The Swim Review The suit was great in the water. Given how cold the conditions were when we were testing the suits, we definitely appreciated the thicker neoprene of the Alliance. As mentioned above, because of the cold conditions we ended up not cutting the sleeves we were liking having the extra coverage. This is definitely a swimmer’s suit. Good buoyancy throughout the torso. The shoulder neoprene felt just right, not too thin and not too thick. The neck was comfortable and the zipper didn’t feel obtrusive in any way. As mentioned above, we were really appreciating the thickness in cold water but we were worried about potentially overheating if conditions were warmer.The Run ReviewWe felt that this was definitely a swimmer’s suit…when we were running. Given the thickness of the neoprene, we experienced some overheating on the runs and on one occasion we stopped to cab down because Chipper was “roasting.” We also experienced some hip impingement while running. We felt that the neoprene in the hip flexor region was a bit too thick for long running efforts and thought that this could lead to run fatigue. That being said, we did see teams at the Catalina race run in the suits no problem so this issue might be athlete-specific. Low Tide Boyz’z Rankings(We’re unveiling are new pull buoy ranking system for our gear reviews! 5 pull buoys being the best and 1 pull buoy being the worst.)Chipper: 3.5 Pull BuoysChipper though that the blueseventy Alliance swimrun wetsuit was good suit for certain races/ water temps but was worried about it in warmer races. It’s a good value swimrun wetsuit and its durability really makes this a perfect training suit. The suit could have used some exterior pockets in the thighs and more accessible areas for nutrition storage since the internal pockets we are bit tough to access without a lot of effort. Overall, he plans on training in the suit and maybe racing in it, if the weather conditions seem to indicate that the Alliance is the suit to use.Chris: 4 Pull BuoysChris gave the Alliance 4 pull buoys for mostly the same reasons as Chipper. For him, the value of the suit at $270 (or $216 with the 20% off discount code SWIMRUN) made it a great suit for beginners or folks that want to have a more cold weather suit in their stable of options. He wasn’t a fan of the orange on the suit but he’s a diva and everybody knows that. Finally, if getting cold during a swimrun—especially towards the end of the race—then this suit is a great choice. Overall ImpressionsOverall, we would definitely recommend folks checking out the blueseventy Alliance swimrun wetsuit. We are definitely stoked on the suit and plan on using it in training pretty regularly. Check out the suit at blueseventy.com and remember to use the discount code SWIMRUN for 20% off anything in the store.

Welcome to episode eighteen of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show we have Mr. Xterra (and Mr. Low Tide Boy for 2020) Marcus Barton. We had a great time chatting with him about his journey in swimrun and we think that you’ll really enjoy the interview! More on that in a bit.Shelter in place continues in California and we’re still exercising and did some endurance antics this week. Chris ran a marathon on Friday for no reason and Chipper ran 33 laps around his block to celebrate his 33rd birthday. Fun times!For shout outs this week we are tipping the hat to Bruno Frisch. He’s a Novato resident and stud athlete who’s been giving us great feedback on the show. You can find him on Instagram here.We also have a special announcement: we are going to start producing some bonus content for everyone in the form of swimrun-specific gear reviews. Our first review will be on the Blue Seventy Alliance wetsuit. The folks over there were cool enough to send us a couple of suits to try out and gave us their blessing to put out our opinions. Not only did they do that, they also created a discount code for all our fans for 20% off on their site. Just use the code SWIMRUN at checkout on their website!Now for this week’s interview. If you don’t know who Marcus Barton is, well you should. He’s a great ambassador for the sport and we had a great conversation chatting about his love for swimrun and his journey in the sport. Marcus started racing triathlon in 2007 and his first race was XTERRA Uwharrie. He was instantly hooked on XTERRA events. He was part of the XTERRA Ambassador team for 7 years and in 2016, he was bestowed with the honor of being named Mr. XTERRA. In 2014, one of his XTERRA racing buddies, Dan Kimball, started talking to him about this crazy race called Ötillö. He started training for to race Ötillö in 2015 and raced his first swimrun in July of that year at Swimrun Rockman. They went on to race the Ötillö World Championship later that year. Since then he's raced a ton of swimruns with Ötillö Catalina this year being his 25th swimrun race. Racing with a varity of partners, his results in swimrun are usually at the top with his teams' efforts earning them the Top Ranked team title in the 2019 US Swimrun Rankings. Although swimrun is his focus these days, he also enjoys adventure races, off-road triathlons and trail running. During the interview we decided to name Marcus “Mr. Low Tide Boy” for 2020. Not only has he been super supportive of our show and meme account but he’s opened a bunch of doors for us to be able to get interviews for the show. In all, it was great to hear from Marcus why he loves the sport of swimrun (spoiler alert: the connection with nature) and what he thinks needs to happen to grow the sport in the U.S. the right way.You can follow Marcus’s adventures at his blog or on facebook.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

Welcome to episode seventeen of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show we have Nate Helming. Nate is an endurance, strength and mobility coach and co-founder of The Run Experience. Lots of great training tips in this episode so be ready to take some notes. We learned this week that the shelter in place order for the Bay Area where we live is going to be extended through the end of the month of May. While we are bummed, we know that we are doing our part to slow the spread of the virus. As usual, we encourage everyone to listen to the medical and science experts about best practices and hopefully we will be past this and back to racing soon. For shout outs this week we wanted to give props to Brent Molsberry. His race report for Ötillö Catalina in an amazing read and we encourage everyone to check it out. Brent is also the Race Director for the Odyssey Swimrun Orcas Island race and it might surprise folks to read that Catalina was his first swimrun race!Now on to this week’s interview. We were fortunate to get some time on Nate’s busy schedule to chat about the importance of strength training and mobility for endurance athletes. Nate has been Chris’s triathlon and endurance coach for years and we think that everyone will get some benefit from listening to this episode.Nate has extensive running, triathlete and strength training experience and has channeled it all into his coaching. He believes that being fit means having the training that allows you to be a complete athlete. He preaches against sport specificity because training variety is what keeps athletes healthy and strong. After being injured and not being able to race the Ironman World Championship he realized that endurance athletes were slipping through the cracks with injuries because most endurance athletes were not focusing on cross-training and getting injured in their chosen sport.Nate recommends adding strength and mobility to any endurance training plan. With just four basic movements athletes can start easing into strength work with. These movements are the squat, the pushup, the lunge and (everyone’s favorite) the burpee. Just adding these movements 2-3 times per week in addition to their endurance sport specific training. These sessions can be as short as 20-30 minutes and you can just do body weight and focus on technique. Nate has a ton of videos on their Youtube page that explain all the movements and provide training tips.You can check out Nate and The Run Experience on their website or on Youtube. Finally, you can be a part of the “Together We Move” free daily programming on their app.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.

Welcome to episode sixteen of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show we have Mats Skott, co-founder of Ötillö. NBD! Real talk: if you would have asked us when we started this show in January that we’d be interviewing anyone at Ötillö, let alone one of the founders, we would have lol’d. Yet, here we are! More on our most journalistic interview later in the show.We’re still under a shelter at home order in California and trying to balance work, family and training. We’ve been at it for over a month at this point and we’re cautiously optimistic that we’ll be able to jump back in the pool soon. As usual, we encourage everyone to listen to the medical and science experts about best practices and hopefully we will be past this and back to racing soon. Until then, stay safe everyone!For shout outs this week we wanted to let everyone know about Riding Easy Records. Based in Hermosa Beach California, this independent record label that focuses on metal and hard rock were cool enough to let us use one of their songs for our intro and outro music. While their music might not be for everyone’s taste, we think that we can all agree that this is a great time to support local businesses and we thank the crew over there for letting us one of their tracks for the show.Now for this week’s interview. We are lucky to have Mats Skott, co-founder of Ötillö and basically the co-pioneer with Michael Lemmel of a new worldwide sport.Mats was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. His sports growing up were Cross-country skiing and orienteering on a national level. In 1995, he started racing in Adventure Races around the world until 2008. His best results being a second place finish in the World Championship 2004. In, 2006 Michael Lemmel and Mats started Ötillö. Neither of them were swimmers but when they heard about the idea from the “original four” and how to move in nature they loved it and they were tasked with organizing the first Swimrun race and named it ÖTILLÖ which means “island to island” in Swedish.We chatted with Mats about his athletic roots and how he eventually discovered adventure racing in 1995. These races are between 300-1000 kilometers long and you race with a mixed gender team of 4 or 5 people and moving as a team through nature non-stop to the finish line. These races includes running, hiking, kayaking, mountain biking, horseback riding and rock climbing. To make it even better, a team would get the map to follow only 2 days before the race start and teams would only have a general idea of what disciplines to train leading up to the event. These events could be 4-6 days long.We, of course, asked Mats about his version of the origin story of Ötillö and how Michael told him about the crazy bet and the “race” that took 2 days for the Original 4. (Now the race champions finish the race in around 8 hours.) Both Michael and Mats fell in love with the idea of how to move in nature. We also chatted about the first year of Ötillö and how their background in Adventure Racing really informed how they set up the race and shared some war stories about the early years and how they weren’t afraid to make changes to help grow the sport. Mats is really happy and proud how the sport has grown and folks are finding a way to move in nature. There was also a tactical decision to have the name “swimrun” which was invented by Erika Rosenbaum be free (read: not trademark) so that the sport could grow freely. This decision turned out to be the best way to make it a worldwide sport and show a new way to move through nature.We also chatted with Mats about his view of how the inaugural Ötillö Catalina went in their view. He was super happy with the race to say the least. It was great to put on a race in Two Harbors because it made the race feel like personal while having everything be as professional as possible. Mats favorite part is really about designing a great course that takes advantage of the challenges that nature gives you to make a unique race experience. Mats background in orienteering helps inform his ability to make the courses amazing. They may make some changes to course for the 2020 edition. Those changes will be announced soon!Fast forward to the current state of affairs in the world. Mats talked about how Ötillö has worked hard with their team to figure how to move forward with COVID-19 and the stress of trying to make good decisions so that Ötillö can survive this period and be able to put on races once we are passed this pandemic. Listeners can read Ötillö’s updated event policies and new 2020 race schedule here. Some of the major changes to the 2020 race schedule are Isle of Scilly and 1000 Lakes events had to be cancelled. Mats is planning (and hoping) that these events returns in 2021. The major adjustment for teams that are trying to qualify for the 2020 Ötillö World Championship race is that the World Series race Engadin in Switzerland (which was postponed for three weeks to July 25-26) will now have 24 qualifying slots for the championship race.In closing, we chatted about hoping that folks can get out to train for swimrun and enjoy nature again and then hopefully race in the future. Mats, for his part, is using this time to try to improve their existing events in every way that they can to move the sport forward once we are part the pandemic.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

Welcome to episode fifteen of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show we have the U.S.-based mixed team, the Boston Wet Sox! Bronwen and Greg are partners in swimrun and in life and we had a great time chatting with them about their journey in swimrun. More on that later.We’re still under a shelter at home order in California and trying to balance work, family and training has been a challenge. As usual, we encourage everyone to listen to the medical and science experts about best practices and hopefully we will be past this and back to racing soon. Until then, stay safe everyone!For shout outs this week we wanted to give props to Trista Mennen. She’s been a fan of the show for a while and gave us some great feedback for improving the show and that. Follow her on Instagram here. Now for the today’s interview. We caught up with the mixed team, The Boston Wet Sox. Bronwen and Greg Dierksen are a married couple living in Boston with their 4 year-old daughter, Gwen. The couple grew up on opposite coasts but met in college at Boston University where they were both on the swim team. They've been competing in Swimrun events since the inaugural Casco Bay Islands Swimrun in 2016. Their race resume includes two trips to the Ötillö World Championships, Ötillö World Series races at the Isles of Scilly and Catalina, as well as numerous North American races in North Carolina, Virginia, Maine, and Massachusetts. Their most recent challenge involves attempting to be more than mediocre employees, athletes, and parents inside a 940 square foot apartment during quarantine.We met them on Catalina for Otillo Catalina in what feels like 3 years ago…where they placed 3rd in the mixed division and got their slot for this year’s world championship.We has a wide ranging chatted about their journey in the sport and how they got hooked on swimrun at the Ötillö World Championship in 2017. They talked about how they have progressed in the sport and how they balance training with a family (spoiler alert: they train separately.) They shared tips on being good partners and they race strategies.You can follow Bronwen and Greg’s journey on Instagram.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

Welcome to episode fourteen of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show we chat with Nicolas Remirez of Envol Coaching about his love for the sport and training for swimrun. More on that later in the show!We will be going back to every other week show posting schedule but we want your feedback on what you want to be listening to. We can do gear reviews, deep dive on events, specific guests to interview, etc. Reach to us on social media or shoot us an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com.We’re still in the middle of the #coronapocalypse but training as much as we can while trying to follow the medical and scientific advice on the best way to get past this pandemic. Chris trespassed on some trails already and has been getting re-acquainted with his bike seat and Chipper is riding the Peloton and is being good about doing dry land workouts.This week’s shout out goes to the Run for Tacos swimrun team. They are two buddies with one living in Toronto and one in Tucson. They are big fans of the meme page and they are training for their first race at Odyssey Swimrun’s Orcas Island.Now on to our interview! Nicolas Remirez is a French multi-sports athlete and endurance sports coach in Stockholm, Sweden. He’s a stout athlete with an impressive resume, including racing the Ötillö World Championship 5 times, a ton of other swimrun events and triathlons, running and cycling events and most recently won Ötillö Catalina with his partner Francesc.Nicolas created Envol Coaching where he works athletes of all levels for endurance events including triathlon, 5 km runs to ultra-marathon, open water swimming, swimrun and cycling. He also started Team Envol which is an international swimrun team were athletes get training advice, community to ask questions and support at events. (There were 24 Team Envol members racing in Catalina.) In this interview we chatted with Nicolas about his endurance racing chops, his love for swimrun and his decision to go all in on the sport and start Envol Coaching and Team Envol. It was a great conversation with a lot of tangible tips for becoming a better swimrun racer both in training and on raceday.One thing that we really liked about Team Envol was are the values that they promote and expect from their team members to abide by, including promoting team spirit, to respect, protect and clean the environment, help develop the community of Team Envol swimrunners and share experiences/knowledge about swimrun. It really is a global team of folks training for their events while trying to lift up the sport as whole.We encourage everyone interested in training for Swimrun to check out Nicolas’s coaching platform at Envol Coaching and his group training group Team Envol. (Chris joined Team Envol and he’s been stoked! Well worth the price.) Nicolas is always happy to answer questions so reach out to him on facebook if you want to learn more.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined. 

Welcome to episode lucky thirteen of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show we chat with the Godfather of Swimrun in the U.S., Andy Hewitt. He put on the first swimrun event in the United States and was our first Patron on Patreon. (Spoiler alert: if you support us on Patreon you’ll likely be interviewed for the show!) More on the interview later in the show.We’re still under a shelter-in-place order and we learned this week that the order is being extended until the end of April. As mentioned previously on the show, we encourage everyone to follow the guidelines of the WHO and their local authorities on what to do. While our pools and parks are closed we are keeping busy with running and other dry land activities.Speaking of which, this week’s shout out goes to Drew Sapp. He’s Co-owner of Crew Racing and Rehab and he sent us some dry land workouts for bands after we posted up on IG that we didn’t know how to use them. Thanks for that Drew!This got us thinking that we should host a bunch of these “pools are closed” workouts on our site. If anyone else has some cool dry land workouts that they want to share, send us an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com and we’ll get that up on our site. In other news, our collab shirt fundraiser for the WILD Youth Initiative created by WILD Swimrun is still selling well! As a reminder, all proceeds from this apparel will go towards providing scholarships to help girls attend the WILD Swimrun camps. Have enough shirts (and/or pillows)? You can head over to lowtideboyz.com to donate to the WILD Youth Initiative on our homepage.Now for this week’s show! Andy Hewitt grew-up in San Diego. Rowed Crew at UC Berkeley. He then spent 28 years as an Infantry Officer in the Marine Corps where he participated in 7 wars throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. He did an 8-year assignment at the US State Department and spent time in Renewable Energy, Defense Contracting and worked for 10 years as a “low-grade” Hollywood actor. He’s been married for 31 years to a Super-Lawyer and has two sons. Athletically, Andy has completed 27 Marathons, 3 Ironman races, swam the English Channel, the Catalina Channel and swam around Manhattan. He has raced in 23 Swimrun events, including 5 Ötillö World Championships. He formed California Swimrun with Sean Durkin in 2015 and hosted the first race in United States on September 20th, 2015. Finally, it bears repeating that Andy was our first Patron on Patreon. In this interview we chatted about how he learned about Swimrun. How he pestered Mats and Michael to get into the World Championship with his friend Sean Durkin in 2015 and then hosted the first swimrun race in the U.S. 4 weeks later. We also chatted about how the sport is growing in the U.S. leading up to the first Ötillö race in California. We chatted about the genesis for the California Swimrun “Rules of Swimrun:”Tell everyone about swimrun!Greet everyone you see while runningStay with your teammate during runs and swimsDog in and out of the swims (Funny story about this one!)No complaining…everWe also chatted about the genesis of Ötillö Catalina and the role that Andy and California Swimrun played in getting that race to happen. The team of Sean, Natalie Foote and Andy worked really hard to help design the great course that we all raced. Finally, we chatted about Andy’s thoughts on how to best grow the sport in the U.S. while keeping the soul of the sport as it will inevitably grow in the U.S. Whether by supporting solo divisions to help introduce the sport to folks or showcasing local events, the future of the sport is about getting people to show up to the races. Andy feels that the team aspect of the sport is where the magic is. The biggest part is hosting swimrun events and the rest will take care of itself.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. 

Welcome to episode twelve of the Low Tide Boyz Podcast, a Swimrun Podcast!This week’s show should really have been episode number 2 for reasons that we’ll explain later but we are thrilled to have Amber Ferreira and Aryn Marsh of Team Better Tethered Together on the show. This is our last interview that we will be releasing that we recorded while we were in Catalina for Ötillö. More forthcoming.Our top story this week again, and pretty much the top story in the world is still COVID-19. As the World continues to deal with the pandemic and more shelter at home orders are made, here in the Bay Area they have now closed most parks to vehicular traffic and outright closed others because people can’t take to heart the concept of social distancing. We encourage everyone to stay safe and keep listening to the scientists and doctors advice about what to do.We wanted to send a shoutout to Dave Dammer this week for posting the IG photo with his Ark Keel Pull Buoy on his head and tagging us. We know it’s silly but these are tough times, might as well try to get some laughs in! Keep the posts coming!We’ve gotten a little more press courtesy of Nancy Heslin for Ötillö Swimrun Magazine. You can check out that story here if you want to learn a little bit more our origin story.Our collab shirt fundraiser for the WILD Youth Initiative created by WILD Swimrun is selling well! As a reminder, all proceeds from this apparel will go towards providing scholarships to help girls attend the WILD Swimrun camps. Have enough shirts (and/or pillows)? You can head over to lowtideboyz.com to donate to the WILD Youth Initiative on our homepage.Now for this week’s show. Amber and Aryn of team Better Tethered Together met up with us in Catalina for a pre-race interview. They have been big fans of the show and it was great to have them on. It was a pretty vivid interview so we wanted to issue this warning: THERE IS TALK ABOUT POOP ON THIS EPISODE. It’s all in the context of racing Swimrun but we still wanted to warn anyone that might get the willies when hearing about that topic. We encourage people to fast forward a bit once it comes up if you’re not into it. That being said, this interview is a great story about one of the things that we love about the sport, the partner aspect. We chat about their race experience, how they see the sport of swimrun in the U.S., and their hopes for the future of the sport. We hope that you enjoy the interview.Amber is a pro-triathlete that has raced triathlon professionally for eleven years, is an Ironman champion and has raced 70 Ironman events. Aryn is an elite swimmer that met Amber In New Hampshire and started swimming together soon after that. They knew right away that they wanted to train together and agreed to become a swimrun team. Aryn first learned about Odyssey Swimrun’s Casco Bay and raced the sprint race solo in 2018. They first raced together at Casco Bay in 2019.Their first race together was quite a story. They were leading the women’s race for three hours when their friendship and partnership as teammates was put to the test…the poop test, if you will. You’ll have to listen to the show to get the details but it’s a pretty amazing story of quick thinking, perseverance and the fighting spirit. It’s also about a lot of poop! They still managed to finish in third place.Despite the adversity that they faced at Casco Bay, they made it their goal to try to qualify for the Ötillö World Championship. They came to Catalina to try to podium and get their slot. (Spoiler alert: they qualified!) You can follow their journey to the World Championship at Better Tethered Together, Amber Ferreira and Aryn Marsh.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. 

Welcome to episode eleven of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!On this week’s show we chat with the legendary Jonas Colting. We were pretty star struck when we interviewed him while we were in Catalina for Ötillö but he was an awesome guest and we think that you’ll really enjoy the interview. More on this interview later in the show.Our top story this week, and pretty much the top story in the world is COVID-19. In the Bay Area, where we live, we’ve been instructed to shelter-in-place for the next three weeks and local gyms and pools have closed. In addition, a bunch of races have been getting canceled around the world. While this is always a huge letdown, be kind to your race directors and listen to the medical and public health experts and basically do what they say. We will get through this together.In other news, we’ve officially launched our collab shirt fundraiser for the WILD Youth Initiative created by WILD Swimrun. All proceeds from this apparel will go towards providing scholarships to help girls attend the WILD Swimrun camps. Have enough shirts (and/or pillows)? Head over to lowtideboyz.com to donate to the WILD Youth Initiative.Let me just start by saying that our guest today has his own Wikipedia page. We are honored and humbled to have had the one and only Jonas Colting on the show today.Jonas has won six World and European medals in triathlon and has been competing in the sport since 1991. He won the Ultraman World Championships in Hawaii twice. (For those that don’t know what that’s a 320 miles [515 kilometer for our metric system fans] three-day competition.) He’s also won the Ötillö world championship three times and is the only person who has done the race every year since its inception in 2006.Jonas launched his own wetsuit company, Colting Wetsuits, in 2016 and his brand has been innovating swimrun-specific gear since the beginning.We chatted with Jonas about the origins of swimrun, which interestingly the sport wasn’t even called that until about 6 years after the original Ötillö race took place. As mentioned above, Jonas has participated in every Ötillö World Championship. He told us the story of the original race and how the sport evolved into the Ötillö that we all know and love today. The first couple of years were pretty interesting as you will hear. The gear and style of the race has been pretty consistent since 2008. The race saw exponential growth every year and Jonas gives a lot of credit to Mats and Michael for their vision for what this sport could be.We chatted about the first race in Ötillö in the U.S. and Jonas thinks that giving endurance athletes a new extreme physical challenge and a change of pace for triathletes that might be tired of doing the same races over and over. Jonas came to Catalina to support Ötillö’s expansion to the U.S. and raced the World Series distance race.Jonas started developing his own wetsuit after not being satisfied with all the options out there. He cemented his idea to start his own brand in 2015 while he was doing a charity swim from Stockholm to Gothenburg (640K or 400 miles away!!!!) and raised over $100,000. During that swim he ended up mostly swimming without a wetsuit because nothing was working. He launched his own brand, Colting Wetsuits, in 2016.We talked about the future of the sport and the hope to keep some of the grassroots feeling about the sport, including how wild and crazy the sport is. We all agreed about the values of the sport to take care about the environment and the friendliness of everyone that competes in the sport made the sport really unique. Basically a love fest about swimrun and its future.You can follow Jonas Colting and Colting Wetsuits on Instagram.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. 

Welcome to episode ten of the Low Tide Boyz Podcast, a Swimrun Podcast!We’re stoked to have Mia Rohman and Fanny Kuhn on the show this week. Both our amazing athletes (Fanny is the reigning Ötillö World Champion) and they started an amazing organization called WILD Swimrun that we’re excited for you to learn more about. More on that later in the show. We’re a couple of weeks past Ötillö Catalina but we’re still reveling in that post-race glow. The folks at Ötillö recently released their race report and short film for the Catalina race and you can check those out here.We’re taking a break from swimrun to train up for the Lake Sonoma 50 miler next month but that doesn’t mean that we’re going to stop swimming. At least not this year. Chris (and Chipper will be following suit) finally broke up with the crappy pool and joined an outdoor 50m pool that is a major upgrade. Chris also recently joined Team Envol so that should be fun.So now to this week’s interview. We recorded this interview while we were in Catalina and we feel lucky to have been able to chat with Mia and Fanny about their journey in Swimrun and their organization, WILD Swimrun. WILD Swimrun is a place where you find everything you need to get out in nature and enjoy Swimrun. They specifically work to get more women and girls to try the sport. You’ll hear more about this in the interview but we encourage folks to check out their WILD Swimrun Club. The WILD Swimrun Club is for those who wish to compete and do it together with a group of women from around the globe. Folks can sign up and pay membership fee on their website. Part of the fee goes toward their youth initiatives that provide scholarships for teens to attend their super successful women-specific swimrun camps. Their next camp on June 2-7 in Mallorca Spain and all experience levels are welcome.We were definitely moved by their story and wanted to announce on the show that The Low Tide Boyz are going to host a fundraiser For the WILD Youth Initiative to help pay for scholarships for two teens (or more) to attend one of their camps. We’ll soon be launching a teespring store for folks that have been asking for Low Tide Boyz swag and proceeds from sales will go towards funding these scholarships. We’ll also be adding a donate button on our website. We thought that this would be a way for us to help support Mia and Fanny’s efforts and we hope that you’ll join us to help get more women and girls into the sport.Without further ado, enjoy our interview with the Co-founders of WILD Swimrun. (Note: we recorded this episode on the wharf in Avalon so we apologize if the sound is a little off)Fanny Kuhn was a collegiate swimmer and Swedish National Champion and after college she dabbled in triathlon before a friend asked her to do Ötillö Utö and they won the race! Mia started really swimming at age 38 and eventually did a swimrun in Costa Brava Spain and was hooked after that. Mia and Fanny met through a mutual friend two years ago and they both really wanted more women to experience the amazing sport of swimrun they chatted about setting up a swimrun camp for women. Their first camp sold out in 48 hours! So they hosted a second camp, that also sold out. They didn’t have a website, they just posted it on facebook. WILD Swimrun was born soon after that. (The name comes from the location of the first camp in Costa Brava which roughly translates to Wild Coast.) There’s now a WILD Swimrun Community that serves as a forum for women to share training tips and gear to help reduce the barrier to entry to the sport. They also have a WILD Swimrun Club that part of the membership fees go towards providing scholarships to get teens into the sport. Their main goal is to help the sport grow and inspire people to engage in the sport and support each other in the process.A new program that they’ve started is the WILD Youth Initiative that works to try to get young girls into the sport. They got a donation last year to provide scholarships for two teens to go to their main camp in Costa Brava. They hope to expand this program and hopefully have a camp specifically for youth in the future.Their next swimrun camp (that isn’t sold out yet) is in Mallorca on June 2-7th and they encourage all women, regardless of ability to sign up. They are excited that Ötillö is now in the US and see a bright future in the sport and hope that the community of Swimrun will continue to grow in the inclusive and welcoming way that it began. They hope to host a Swimrun camp in the US one day and help even more people enter the sport and experience nature.It was really great to have them on the this week’s show and we encourage everyone to follow them on facebook and Instagram and become part of their community.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Low Tide Boyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. 

Welcome to episode eight of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!This week’s show is all about Ötillö Catalina that happened this past weekend (Feb. 29-Mar. 1).We have something special this week and have two parts to this episode. The first part will be the Low Tide Boyz report and the second part will be the race report from a Swedish Team, Team ARKsouls Addnature, that finished in second place female division. So here we go! We had an amazing and busy weekend scheduled at Catalina. We were almost journalists. We recorded 4 great interviews that we will be releasing in the coming weeks. We met some great people, made new friends, connected faces to names and just had an amazing time. It’s hard to overstate how surreal it was to get so much positive feedback for the podcast and memes. It all started on the ferry ride to Catalina from Long Beach and really didn’t stop until we left. We tried to mention all the people that we connected with while we were there but we’re sure that we missed a bunch of folks. Overall, it was an amazing weekend and we can’t wait to back next year.Episode 8: The Löw Tide Böyz Ötillö Catalina Race ReportWe thought it would be helpful for folks that are thinking about doing the race next year to give a play by play of the World Series distance (31k or running and 7.7k of swimming) race. The course was very difficult and pretty much everything that you’d want in a swimrun race and nothing that you could find in a triathlon.Leg 1:  Two Harbors to Isthmus Harbor Beach (2.3 miles or 3.7 kilometers)This leg was a pretty hilly run right off of the bat.Leg 2:  Isthmus Harbor Beach to Big Fisherman Cove (1640 yards or 1500 meters) Nothing too tough about this. It definitely felt nice to get in the water after cooking on the run with the wetsuits on.  Leg 3:  Big Fisherman Cove to Ballast Point Beach (2.9m or 4.8k)This run was pretty straight forward. A little bit of a climb from the boat ramp but then it got very runnable.Leg 4:  Ballast Point Beach to Catalina Harbor Boat Ramp (440y or 400m)This was the shortest swim of the day.Leg 5:  Boat Ramp to Parsons Landing (5.3m or 9.5k) This was the hardest/longest run of the day. We dropped the suits as soon as we got out of the water knowing that we had a big climb ahead…which we pretty much just hiked/death marched up. (Shout out to the Swimrun Monks and Team Baywatch for the head’s up on this section) It was very steep for the first 2 miles. There was an aid station at the top of the climb (an aid station coming out of the water would have been nice.) Once we got to the top of the climb, we were pretty exposed and it got a bit chilly with the wind but it was nice to be able to run and then had a screaming downhill to get to the next swim at Parson’s Landing.Leg 6:  Parsons Landing Bay (765y or 700m) This was the hardest swim of the day. It was very exposed and there were 4-5’ waves going in and out. This was a leg were the true spirit of swimrun really shined. We quickly made a plan of attack, agreed on who would do what and went on to execute. The whole process probably took 30 seconds but it exemplified a lot of what we love about the sport, namely, seeing an obstacle, communicating on how to tackle it and then going out and doing it. Did we mention that this swim was hard?Leg 7:  Parsons to Emerald Bay (1.1m or 1.9k)This run was pretty chill and just what we needed after the washing machine-style swim that we just finished. This was about the half way point of the race with some very long swims coming up.Leg 8:  Emerald Bay to Howland’s Landing (1400y or 1300m)This swim was pretty straight forward but the water temperature was dropping a bit. Leg 9:  Howland’s to Big Geiger Cove (1.3m or 2.2k)This run was pretty uneventful. Just climbing out of the beach to a trail and then keep heading south towards the finish area. We ran this one easy since the biggest swim of the day was up next.Leg 10:  Big Geiger Cove to Lion’s Head Cove (1750y or 1600m)This swim wasn’t very technical but it was long. It was also our fastest swim of the day.Leg 11:  Lion’s to Fourth of July Cove (2.2m or 3.6k)We ran this swim pretty quickly, mostly to warm up but also because we were feeling pretty good. We passed several teams on this run. We saw our friend Christofer Sundberg from Ark Sports on the run so that also gave us a lift.Leg 12:  Fourth of July Cove to Isthmus Harbor Beach (875Y or 800m)This swim was fine but it was a little hard to sight. Luckily there was a watercraft that pointed us in the right direction. Leg 13:  Isthmus Harbor Beach to Big Fishermen Cove (3m or 4.9k)This was the last run of the day and we definitely knew that we had the race in the bag. We also saw our first wild animal of the day: a squirrel! (Read: we saw zero bison!)Leg 14:  Big Fishermen to Isthmus Harbor Beach (1530y or 1400m)We were both pretty toasted by this last swim and we just grinded it out to the beach. Chipper really carried the load to get us to the beach.Leg 15:  Beach to finish line (.2 miles)Crossing the finish line was a sweet as any race we’ve completed together.Overall, it was a great experience and we will be back! We worked well together and supported each other well and achieved the goal. Hats off to Ötillö for putting on an amazing event. One of our friends Marcus Barton made a video of the race that you can see here to get a great sense of the vibes of the day. You can check out the official event photos on Flickr. The Low Tide Boyz will be back next year!That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Low Tide Boyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com

Welcome to episode nine of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!Team ARKsouls Addnature Ötillö Race ReportThis week’s show is all about Ötillö Catalina that happened this past weekend (Feb. 29-Mar. 1).We have something special this week and have two parts to this episode. The first part will be the Low Tide Boyz report and the second part will be the race report from a Swedish Team, Team ARKsouls Addnature, that finished in second place female division. Now for an actual race report! (Note: This interview was reported a couple of hours after the race on the beach in Avalon and we were pretty tired but it was great to get their view on the World Series race.) (Note 2: Our guests were extremely humble so it was hard to get some straight answers from them.)We interviewed Isabella Hedberg and Helen Wikmar of Team ARKsouls Addnature.Isabella and Helen are a top international women’s team out of Sweden and have been competing together for about a year. They’ve competed in many swimrun events together, including the Ötillö World Championships in 2019. They got 3rd place FYI. They were the 2nd Place Women’s team at the first ever Ötillö Catalina. They thought that the race went well (obviously). There were highs and lows but they have a tactic that they use at all their races to pace and try to get stronger and stronger as the race goes on. They kept passing teams throughout the race and passed the third place team with about 500m left in the last swim.Unlike a lot of swimrun events that they’ve raced in Europe where they are usually alone for long periods, there were a lot of teams bunched up and more competitive than they were used to. There was way less chitchat on the course as well.They felt that the course was well suited for their strengths. The Parsons Landing Bay swim was what they thought was the most interesting swim. Helen admitted that she was a bit scared going into those waves. Overall, they had a great race and would recommend this race to anyone. While Catalina was a great race, they felt that it was hard to compare to other Ötillö events because every race is so different. It was great to get the international perspective from Isabella and Helen. You can follow them on Instagram here and here.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Low Tide Boyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. 

Welcome to episode seven of the Low Tide Boyz,a Swimrun Podcast!We are beyond thrilled to have Christofer Sundberg, a swimrunner and Co-founder of Ark Sports on the show this week. More on this later!We’re just a few days away from the Ötillö Catalina race and we’re ready for some fun! Our training went as well as could be expected but we’re definitely stoked to finally race an Ötillö event and meet so many people that have become fans of the show.We also wanted to give a special shout out to @westcoastswimrun, @swimrunlabs and @this_is_trista for sharing DIY pro-tips for pull buoys and swim paddles. We love getting and sharing this content so tag us and we’ll make sure to spread the word.Now back to this week’s interview! This is the first time that we’ve had a gear and apparel manufacturer on the show and we think that you’ll enjoy this interview about Christopher’s personal journey and how swimrun literally changed his life for the better. He worked in the video game space since 92 and started his own company, Avalanche Studios in 2003. He co-founded Ark Sports with Dennis Blomberg and Daniel Sand in 2017. Ark Sports is a title sponsor of Ötillö and they just recently announced their entrance into the U.S. market. You can read the press release here. After a near-drowning accident as a child and a slew of swimming schools later, Christofer signed up for a swimrun event in 2014 and was hooked on the sport ever since. It was only a few years later that he co-founded Ark Sports. As swimrun became his obsession, he learned that Dennis and Daniel were leaving Head Swimming in Sweden and they started getting their heads together in 2017 with the idea of why there wasn’t any swimrun equipment being manufacturered in Sweden using feedback from the athletes. After they developed their first prototype suits and the two teams that wore the new suits won the World Championship that year! The men’s team of Jesper Svensson and Daniel Hansson won AND broke the world record and the women’s team of Kristin Larsson and Annika Ericsson won by over 45 minutes over the next women’s team. Overnight the Ark Sports became “a company.”Every product that Ark Sports goes through many levels of iteration and they are working to try to be as environmentally-friendly as they can, including the use of Yamamoto limestone-based neoprene. There is still a long way to go but Ark is constantly looking into new materials that could work for swimrun. For example, the Ark Pontoon pull buoy and hand paddles are made from recycled plastic and manufactured in Sweden.When Ark got the opportunity to become a partner of the Ötillö Series, things really took off for the brand. Now they offer a wetsuit rental program at every race in the series where folks can rent a suit and then buy one at a reduced price if they end up loving the suit. This is a great way to reduce the barrier to entry to the sport. (Note: the rental program at the Catalina race is fully subscribed!)Looking to the future, Christofer wants to grow Ark Sports to take on triathlon and the OCR markets and position the brand to grow both in endurance sports and with lifestyle products. A lot of people want to be associated with the brand and their personal touch when they meet with athletes has developed a lot of trust with their users and it’s become a cool brand to be wearing. (We agree!)If you are going to be in Catalina for the race, make sure to stop by to meet the Ark Sports crew and check out their line of products and pick up a pull buoy or three.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Low Tide Boyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. 

Welcome to episode six of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!We are releasing another episode this week to give our listeners yet another Ötillö Catalina course preview and some more deep diving into swimrun-specific race gear. On this week’s show we chat with the Huntington Beach-based swimrun team Kawika and Blake, A.K.A. Team Baywatch, to discuss the world series course and all things gear with two veterans of the sport. Before getting into the interview, we want to give a special shoutout to our first Patron on Patreon, Andy Hewitt of California Swimrun. He’s basically the Godfather of swimrun in the U.S. and it means the world to us to have both his blessing and support for two average dads that are trying to help grow the sport. We look forward to interviewing him soon for the show.Now right to this week’s special episode! We are stoked to have Team Baywatch on the show this week. Not only are they super experienced and have raced a ton together, they are also total gear heads and share all their wealth of knowledge with our listeners. As if that wasn’t enough, they have been working with Andy Hewitt and the Ötillö folks to test out the Catalina course and have previewed the course several times already and they’ll share there knowledge with us.Kawika found swimrun in 2016 and was hooked after his first race in San Diego. His first partner at that race was not hooked. Kawika then asked his friend Blake to partner up and the rest was history. Their first race together was the California Swimrun in 2017 and then signed up for Odyssey Swimrun’s Casco Bay long course event the same year. Since then they have competed at a ton of Swimrun races in the States and internationally and raced the Ötillö World Championships in 2019.They chat about the Ötillö Catalina course on the show and provide a much of gems of wisdom for folks racing the World Series distance. They also chatted a lot about swimrun-specific gear. Everything from what type of swimcap to don to what shoes have worked best for them and everything in between.Besides dropping serious gear knowledge, Kawika and Blake gave us a series of “pro-tips” that were so good that we needed to list them for everyone:Wear goggles that you can easily grab and clear during the swim while wearing swim paddles.Make sure you test out whatever swimrun wetsuit you plan on racing in to make sure that it doesn’t cause hot spots or chaffing.Use 4 inch wide KT or Rocktape on your neck to help prevent chaffing from the wetsuit.Timing chips can cause some chaffing so wearing tall compression socks can help with that.We really appreciate Kawika and Blake for sharing their experiences with for our listeners and we look forward to having them back on the show in the future.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Low Tide Boyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. 

Welcome to episode four of the Low Tide Boyz, a swimrun podcast!On this week’s show we chat about finding a swimrun partner. We’ve received a lot of requests for this show from our fans so…here it is. Since swimrun is primarily a team sport, we thought that it would be a to try to cover all the details around finding a partner since the sport is so young in the US.As you know by now, there’s are three team categories for swimrun events: Women’s, Men’s and Mixed. (Some races will also have solo categories.)There are several initial considerations in selecting a swimrun partner. These include the following:Overall endurance/fitnessSimilar swim/running pacesComplementary personalitiesSimilar training/race goalsAbility to train togetherBeing ready for adventureThe take home message being that finding the right partner will be give and take of a lot of factors and your team’s ability to work together towards a common goal (whether that goal is qualifying for a World Championship, just having a great adventure or something in between) will be determined by how well you communicate your goals with your partner. Talking with your partner (or prospective partner) about your goals will be the best way to have your first experience in the sport be a positive one. Given that the races are all challenging in their own ways, finding someone that is up for the challenge/adversity will help ensure that you’ll have a great race, regardless of your finishing time.So where can you find a partner if you’re the only person that you know that knows about swimrun? We think that there are several sources that make the most sense to access. These include your current workout buddies, swim/running/tri clubs, masters programs and gym/boot camps. It’s likely that someone else may have heard about the sport and just needed the impetus to get into the sport. There are also some great online resources to learn about the sport and find a partner. Otillo and Odyssey Swimrum have some great videos that feature their events and the sports beautifully. There are also several Facebook groups, online forums and Instagram accounts  where folks can go to look for partners and discover events in their area. Finally, races and race directors are great resources to find partners.Swimrun Facebook Groups:Swimrun International CommunityOFFICIAL Swimrun Forum - World of Swimrun (WoS)The Swimrun ExperienceIt’s really hard to overstate how welcoming the sport of swimrun is. There are swimrun groups popping up all over the US as well as new races. We encourage everyone to find and support your local race. This will be the best way to help grow the sport and maybe find your perfect race partner! That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Low Tide Boyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. 

Welcome to episode three of the Low Tide Boyz, a swimrun podcast!On this week’s show we chat about ramping up our training for Catalina and our swim build workout plan that was written by this show’s special guest, Michael Olzinski. More about him later.We started swimming at a great outdoor Olympic-sized pool that is a huge upgrade from our current crappy 25 yard pool at our crappy gym. Long course swimming has been a great addition to our training given that swimrun is all about swimming long. We’ve started dialing up the swim volume and have been putting in some diabolical sets, curtesy of today’s guest!We’ve gotten some great feedback about our Swimrun 101 episode so thank you for that. It was also brought to our attention that we didn’t talk about socks and what to wear under a wetsuit. For both of these it comes down to personal preference and we recommend testing whatever you’re going to use before the race. We are lucky to have Michael Olzinski on the show this week. He’s a multisport coach with Purple Patch Fitness. He’s a stout athlete in his own right, has a ton of coaching certifications and he’s joining us to chat about swimrun training. Mike first heard about swimrun when some of Purple Patch’s international athletes started asking for training plans to their races.We chatted with Mike about how to best train for swimrun, focusing on the Otillo Catalina course…since that’s what we have coming up. Acknowledging that training for these events are really an experiment in training and while there are some analogies to events like super league triathlon, where there are multiple short sets of swimming, biking and running. The overarching idea though is that swimrun athletes have to be just that, athletes. As much as swimrun is a swimming and running sport, there’s a lot of room for strength training to handle the impact on your legs and shoulders from all the transitions. This is especially true for newer athletes to the sport. Mike also recommends combining running and swimming often and mix it up to develop the adaptation for transitioning back and forth.Courses like Otillo’s Catalina World Series race be aerobic event but it will have a lot of spikes and drops in effort levels and, as such, training should have a lot of fartleks thrown in to simulate the spikes in effort that athletes will experience during a race. For swim workouts, Mike is a big fan of doing deck ups at the pool. These are great for getting the body adapted to transitioning from swimming to running. Mike also recommends that during swimming sets, that it’s not necessary to do all your swims with paddles and buoy. Use paddles and buoy mostly for key sets in the water. Adding an ankle strap is also great. Mike recommends trying some fartlek swimming in open water and using swim strokes to count off the sets, such as 30 hard and 30 recovery, then 20 hard and 30 recovery and so forth. Finally, Mike recommends doing a lot of strength and core work to help with maintaining proper posture during long endurance efforts in the water and on land. Mike thinks that everyone should be doing deadlifts. Full stop!You can find Mike on Instagram, on the Purple Patch platform and at the Nth Degree Athletic Club.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Low Tide Boyz, please be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast player. We are on Apple Podcast, Spotify and Google Podcast. You can also follow along on Instagram and Twitter. You can also support us on Patreon, if you are so inclined. If you want to drop us a line, email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. 

He is his bio from his Site- https://www.precisionhydration.com/pages/about-us I slightly younger days I was an elite level triathlete and have a few top-10 Ironman and 70.3 finishes to my name. I also won an Xterra World Age Group title back in the year 2000. Knee surgery forced me out of competitive triathlon a few years ago, but I still compete for fun at events like Coast to Coast New Zealand and OtillO. I mainly get away with this because my incredibly supportive wife Lucy (and 2 kids) agree to pretend that these trips are in fact family holidays. I’ve got a degree in Sport and Exercise Science and was once the Team Sports Scientist for Benetton and Renault F1 teams. I learnt about hydration and electrolyte replenishment the hard way, by getting things very wrong and ending up in the medical tent of more than one hot endurance event. It took a lot of frustrating trial and error to get to the bottom of my hydration problems. But it was worth it, as Precision Hydration was essentially born out of this struggle. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/executiveathletes/support

This week we go through recent endurance sports news including the first Otillo race in the US, the new seaweed water packaging used at the London Marathon and Kipchoge's new attempt at a sub-2 hour marathon. We discuss the weekend's results from Gulf Coast 70.3, Asia-Pacific 70.3 Championships and Pays d'Aix as well as recent events in the Giro d'Italia. These episodes will aim to fill the gaps between episodes with Macca and will focus on news and endurance sports results. For more information about MX Endurance: http://www.mxendurance.com   Or check the team out on Social Media:  Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TeamMaccax/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mxendurance Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teammaccax/   You can also find Tim's podcast 'Think Fit' here: https://goo.gl/sp5q4q 

This week I’m returning to the Legends of British Triathlon with another guest who was very prominent in the triathlon scene back in the mid to late 80’s.  Bernie Shrosbree started out in the Royal Marines and began his sporting career as a runner, then a cross country skier and biathlete.  A silly military bet saw him participating in his first triathlon in 1982 and Bernie quickly showed some talent at the sport, becaming overall British Triathlon champion in 1989.  Following this and his retirement from the military, he enjoyed a successful career as a fitness coach and mentor working with some very high profile athletes in a number of sports from Motor Rallying, Formula 1, Rowing and Mountain Biking.  Even though he has just turned 60 he retains a passion for the outdoors and the mountain life.  Later this year he is participating in the world famous swim-run event OTILLO with his daughter.  In this great conversation you’ll hear Bernie and I discuss a lot of topics so pay attention as we chat about: Taking part in forerunner of Arch to Arc Being a failed athlete (aka triathlete) Arthur Lydiard and his influence on Bernie’s athletic career Why a Norwegian skier told him “you look like you are skiing with your poles up your arse” Working with Colin McRae, Carlos Sainz, Jenson Button, James Cracknell and Jurgen Grobler Adapting to different cultures to become a better coach Why you should focus on yourself and not what others do, to improve as an athlete Technology and why it does Bernie’s head in Want to be a better older athlete? Hit the gym. Efficiency and why it’s the key to better performance For more information please go to www.SimonWardTriathlonCoach.com, or www.TheTriathlonCoach.com, or email Beth@TheTriathlonCoach.com. 

Joe talks to friend and colleague Otillo Page about film, fear, mortality, travel, big decisions, identity, and the ocean. A veritable chat safari for your listening pleasure.

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W 27 odcinku Tricast FM Filip Szołowski i Jędrzej Maćkowski przedstawią kulisy Pucharu Europy w Triathlonie, który odbył się w Olsztynie. Powiedzą też kilka słów o rozpoczętym sezonie triathlonowym w Polsce, a także przypomną o nawadnianiu w te ciepłe dni, a także odpowiedzą na pytanie czy i jak trenować w upale. Ponadto gościem odcinka będzie Wojtek Ptak z NU Complements Goswimrun.pl Team, który jest częścią pierwszego polskiego zespołu zakwalifikowanego na Mistrzostwa Świata OtillO 2018. Wojtek opowie o swoich początkach w swimrunie, planach na ten sezon oraz o tym jak udało im się wraz z Jackiem Śliwińskim wywalczyć bezpośrednie kwalifikacje na Mistrzostwa podczas wyścigu na chorwackim Hwarze. Przy okazji swimrunu - słów kilka o rywalizacji triathlonistów podczas zbliżających się zawodów swimrunowych w Stężycy, czyli o pojedynku bracia Ławiccy kontra bracia Najmowicz. Odpowiemy też sobie na pytanie, czy najszybszy polski team swimrunowy jest w stanie zagrozić triathlonowym zawodowcom. Zapraszamy!

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Dan Kimball has a passion for endurance events. We chat on this podcast about how he just finished an amazing event called UltraTri Sweden. www.ultratri.se We talk about how Dan got his start in endurance sports and what the road he travelled all the way to UltraTri which I should mention he won. He found OtillO through a book that listed the top endurance races in the world, which lead him to Rockman and back to OtillO which he raced with Marcus Barton who told their OtillO story earlier on the podcast. He has a friend in Norway who partners with him on some of these events named Bjorn Norman. Dan is a part of the Timex Factory Team and has been lucky enough to race on Team USA several times. Dan works full time and has a busy family life and we talk about how he manages to keep it all together while training for endurance events. We talk about coaching and resources. Dan says he's fascinated with becoming a swimmer and what is his favorite of the 3 sports right now. Dan trains with Rock Hill Masters in South Carolina and trains with Cheryl Reinke (and he says great things about her in the interview). UltraTri is unique. A very small race and Dan was one of 7 participants this year. We talk about how you get into such a race and what the course was. This is a 3-day race that goes across all of Sweden. The first day is a Swim and Bike. Day 2 is all Biking and Day 3 is Run - Swim - Run. The total distances are 12k of swimming, 520 km of biking and 93km of running. We talk about the course and nutrition and challenges and support throughout the three days. Dan won this year's UltraTri in Sweden. This is a great story.  Thank you Dan for being a guest on the Mile after Mile Podcast. I am sure the listeners will agree with me when I say I can't wait to see what you do next. Please be sure to visit www.amysaysso.com if you're curious about the host Amy's adventures.

Episode 27 of the Mile after Mile Podcast is sponsored by my good friends at TriVillage. Be sure to check them out for all your swim, bike and run needs (and wants) be sure to tell them that the Mile after Mile Podcast sent you. Marcus fell in love with multisport through Xterra offroad events but last year he tackled OtillO a SwimRun event in Sweden. OtillO is a point to point race that transverses 26 islands in Sweden. They call this SwimRun. We talk about how this works. Marcus also was kind enough to tip me off that when speaking of SwimRun they put it all together in one word because I am a SwimRun novice. You race SwimRun as a 2-person team and Marcus's partner was Dan who had raced it the year before also. To best understand the race here is a link to Marcus's blog and race report . The photos are spectacular. Swim Run is a bit of a phenomenon in Sweden and Norway but there are 3 races coming to the US this year. Marcus says that the toughest thing was going from swim to run to swim to run to swim to run. Although you'll hear from the interview that I was sort of obsessed with the equipment needed and the general concept of swimming in shoes and running in a wetsuit. Did you know there are special SwimRun wetsuits? Me neither. Rockman SwimRun Innov-8 shoes Gu Energy Roctane OtillO is a long race. When you add it all up it's 6 miles of swimming and 42 miles of running. WOW! There are 120 teams. So 240 racers. The teams stay within 10 meters of each other. Marcus and I talk about how the course was marked and what the terrain was like, what the support stations were like. The locals were really welcoming and supportive of the racers. We talk about how his skin held up to all the friction from running and swimming and then running again. Body Glide, Tri Glide, Toe Socks Marcus and Dan were the first team from the US to finish and it sure sounds like a fantastic finish line. Definitely listen to the interview to hear about who meets you at the finish. Of course, as is fitting to any event that started as a drunken bet - there is beer at the finish. Casco Bay SwimRun SwimRun NC www.swimrunnc.com SwimRun VA Here's how you can keep up with Marcus Barton www.speedylizard.com Episode 27 of the Mile after Mile Podcast is sponsored by TriVillage. You can always check up on what the Mile after Mile host Amy is up to at AmySaysSo.com