Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast

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 ment...

Welcome to episode 121 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got our first race report of 2022 to share with everyone this week! We just got back from Swimrun Lake James in North Carolina and we’re super stoked to share all the details of our latest Swimrun adventure. (Spoiler alert: we had a blast!) It was great to meet so many Swimrunners at the LTBz/Wild Swimrun shakeout and at the pr...

Welcome to episode 120 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This episode is the latest installment in our ad hoc series: Swimrun 201-Advanced Topics in Swimrun. In this show, we discuss what to do when things go south/sideways/bad during a race. We’re joined by Senior Sports Scientist Abby Coleman from Precision Fuel and Hydration who shares with us the latest and greatest information on the...

Welcome to episode 119 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! On the podcast this week we have Swimrunner, Endurance Coach at TOT Endurance , ÖTILLÖ Broadcaster, and our friend, Ville Engberg. We first met him in the DMs during last year’s live coverage of ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship and have kept in touch since then. If you’re super stoked–or even just run-of-the-mill stoked–on Swim...

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 th...

Welcome to episode 117 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We have a super random episode for everyone this week. We’ve gone deep into the LTBz vault and found a one-off podcast that we recorded after racing our second Swimrun ever back in 2018. We’re talking about SwimrunUSA’s (now Ödyssey Swimrun) Casco Bay a.k.a., “Cole Classic.” This is a peek back in time to the primordial origins of LT...

Welcome to episode 116 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We have a great show for everyone this week. Joining us in Studio G are brothers Lars and Jonas Ekman, A.K.A., Team Bröderna Bäver (The Beaver Brothers.) We’ve known about this team since we first started watching Rasmus’s ÖTILLÖ hype movies and noticed these two tall, fast and generously mustachioed guys that we perennially on the p...

Welcome to episode 115 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week’s episode is one for the books! Friend of the pod, Bill Lankford (from Team Mr. and Mrs. B ,) suggested that we do an episode helping “older” folks get into endurance events and Swimrunning in particular. We couldn’t think of a better person to ask to come on the show than the legendary endurance Coach Joe Friel . This is a...

Welcome to episode 114 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week’s episode is a good one. For the first time on the show, we have a Mother/Daughter duo joining us to talk about how that works! We are stoked to have Brooke and Samantha Fallon, A.K.A., The Fearless Fallons, on the podcast to share their Swimrun journey with all of us. But first...  Training Update Swimrun Lake James is now...

Welcome to episode 113 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! In this special episode, we are sharing our course preview for Swimrun Lake James . This race has been on our bucket list for a while and we are super stoked to be racing it this year. We are joined in the episode by race director Kristen Jeno , Purple Patch coach/race director John Stevens , and Mr. Swimrun himself Marcus Barton . S...

Welcome to episode 112 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We conclude this year’s Partners Month with the amazing Women’s team of Jenny Ramstedt and Diane Sadik, A.K.A., Team Kraken Swimrun. They are two of the most experienced Swimrunners out there and it was great to finally have them on the show to chat about their enduring Swimrun partnership, ÖTILLÖ, and, of course, fika . But first......

Welcome to episode 111 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Way back in early 2020 (Episode 4!) we released our Swimrun 101: Partners episode. For Partners month 2022 we thought that it would be fun to do a redux of that episode since we feel like we are so much more experienced–dare we say wiser–after two-plus years of doing the show and picking people's brains all along. We re-listened to t...

Welcome to episode 110 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Partners Month continues this week with our friends John Brandershort and Addison Nuding, A.K.A. The Kanchō Bōyz. They are a team based in Colorado and one that we can directly credit their origination to our constant efforts, i.e., nagging. Their first event was Orcas Island long course and that should tell you all you need to know...

Welcome to episode 109 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Welcome to the second annual “Partners Month!” For the entire month of February we will be sharing conversations with Swimrun teams from all over the “world” (Europe and the U.S.) to highlight one of our favorite features of the sport of Swimrun…the partner part.  Our first conversation this month is with the wife and husband duo, Ch...

Welcome to episode 108 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Back on the show this week is Purple Patch Senior Coach Mike Olzinski. He was our guest all the way back in Episode 3 and we’re stoked to chat about strength training for Swimrunners. His first show is still on our top 10 list of most downloaded episodes and we thought, who better to talk to us about how to get strong/limber for the...

Welcome to episode 107 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! One the show this week we have a Bay Area legend and a man that is very well known to an entire generation of endurance athletes. Kevin Burns runs San Francisco Sports Massage and Performance and has gotten countless athletes (and even NFL teams) ready to compete. We have both been on Kevin’s massage table and he’s the first person w...

Welcome to episode 106 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This episode is the latest installment in our ad hoc series: Swimrun 201-Advanced Topics in Swimrun. In this show, we discuss in detail “Swim Paddle Hieroglyphics” wherein we break down why athletes should be writing legs and distances on their swim paddles before their Swimrun events and we share some of our theories for what to wri...

Welcome to episode 105 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re kicking off 2022 with an amazing guest. On the show this week we have the uber talented endurance athlete Marika Wagner. We’re huge fans of her feats of endurance and we’re super stoked to start off the third year of the podcast with her on the show.   But first...  Training Update It’s back to training this week and somehow we...

Welcome to episode 104 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a mind blowing episode this week! On the show we have Thomas Ogander, the mastermind behind the One Water Race , who joins us to share the story of, what is sure to be, one of the toughest endurance events in the world. Make sure you’re sitting down for this one! But first...  Training Update This is the final “our off-seas...

Welcome to episode 103 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Welcome to the second edition of our annual LTBz Fireside Chat. In this episode, we look back at our year and discuss the state of the show, our racing journey, and look forward to what’s coming up in 2022. Huge thank you to all our listeners, Patreon supporters, sponsors, and friends and family for pushing us to try to produce the b...

Welcome to episode 102 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we have the 3-time ÖTILLÖ World Champion Adriel Young on the show. For those who don’t know Adriel, he’s a Swimrunner whose legend is being written as we speak…and also happens to be one of the nicest guys in the sport. We caught up with him at the start of his holiday and had a great chat. But first...  Training Update The...

Welcome to Gear Talk: The Löw Tide Böyz and Swimrun Labs review show! In this episode of Gear Talk, the gang is back to chat about one of the best topics in Swimrun: Pull Buoys! We’re super stoked to review the newest addition to the Keel family, Ark Sports Keel s . Before we get into that, we have some gear updates. Gear Updates Chris and Chipper tested the Ark Sports UTÖ suit and had nothing but...

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 app...

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 Mi...

Welcome to episode ninety-nine of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we have a Portland, Maine local legend, Burcay Gurcan on the show. He’s a Portland Maine institution and we chatted with him about all things Portland/Casco Bay, water polo (yes, water polo,) and how he’s single-handedly gotten so many people into Swimrun. We got a bunch of requests to get him on the show and we’re...