Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast

Welcome to episode seventy-nine of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week’s show is all about swimming. We were super lucky to be able to chat with Gemma Hollis of PushGlideKick . She’s a swim stroke and mechanics expert and we pick her brain on all things swimming for Swimrun. Get your notepads out for this one. More on this interview later in the show. Training Update We’re stuffing as...

Welcome to episode seventy-eight of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! (It’s also episode 101 of total podcast content!) So it is fitting that we have what we think is one of our best shows ever, maybe even the best show. This week we have Bonnie Tsui on the show. She is the author of Why We Swim (an amazing book about swimming, water, and life that we’ll talk more about later), a New York Tim...

Welcome to Gear Talk with our friends Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs . In this episode, we have another wetsuit review. This week we do a deep dive on the brand new Ark Sports ORNÖ X Swimrun Wetsuit . This suit was just released a few weeks back and we were lucky enough to get 4 suits sent to us to test by our friends at Ark Sports . Our complete review is coming later in the show. Gear Update...

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...

Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay Course Preview Welcome to episode seventy-six of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast ! On this week’s show we have a super comprehensive course preview for Ödyssey Swimrun’s Casco Bay race. We raced Casco Bay in 2018 and we’re super stoked to be going back this year to race the long course again. We will be focusing on the long course in this show but the short course f...

Welcome to episode seventy-five of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we head to “The Shire” (New Hampshire, not Tolkein’s Middle Earth) to chat with Keith Lundquist and Kanoa King of Team Keith and the Unicorn . These guys are one of the up-and-coming American teams and we’re super stoked to introduce them to our listeners. More on this interview later in the show. Training Update T...

Welcome to episode seventy-four of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we have the Founder of Synergy Wetsuits , Stefan Laursen. Get ready to learn about Stefan’s fascinating background, his ambitious Swimrun program, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the research and development process for making their new Swimrun wetsuits. More on this interview later in the show. Training Update...

Welcome to Gear Talk with our friends Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs . In this episode, we break down the new Synergy Swimrun Wetsuit . At $200 this suit is an intriguing entry-level suit that looks and, more importantly, performs great. We would like to thank Synergy for sending us four of their new suits for us to test out. Our complete review is coming later in the show. Gear Updates Annie...

Welcome to episode seventy-three of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we have Jennifer Devers and Bridgit Phillips on the show. They are a Swimrun team out of North Carolina with one of the best team names that we’ve seen in a while: Team Phyllis Hold My Shower Beer.  More on this interview later in the show. Training Update We got redemption on last week’s irony fest and got in our...

Welcome to episode seventy-two of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We got something pretty awesome for you in this show. Unless you were living under a rock that didn’t have wifi access this past weekend, then you probably heard about the EX Swimrun ’s Ark Supersprint event. This was a first of its kind event in the sport and we have the race director mastermind behind this event, Nicholas R...

Welcome to Gear Talk with our friends Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs . In this installment we talk about one of our favorite topics: pull buoys! And not just any pull buoys, but the NU Orza Swimrun Pull Buoy . He had a lot of thoughts on this one and can’t wait to share them below. Gear Updates Chris and Chipper tested out the Ark Sports KORP wetsuits in open water at their first Swimrun pract...

Welcome to episode seventy-one of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This episode is the latest installment in our ad hoc series: Swimrun 201-Advanced Topics in Swimrun. On this show we discuss in detail the concept of “Heads Up Racing.” Prepare for some knowledge bombs, but first.... Training Update Chris was out of town for work this past weekend so we didn’t get a Swimrun practice in but ou...

Welcome to episode seventy of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re headed back to the U.K. this week (North Wales to be exact) to chat with Anna Naylor, founder of Smoc Smoc . Don’t know what Smoc Smoc is, well you’re about to get an education! More on this interview later in the show. Training Update We did our first Swimrun practice of the year on Saturday!  Went to our usual stomping gr...

Welcome to episode sixty-nine of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We got something new for everyone. On this episode, we welcome Marcus Barton and Lee Greene of Team Swaggy Zaddys for a special guest race report from Swimrun Lake James . It was  almost too much fun to chat with Marcus and Lee but somehow we managed to get through it and share a cool race report from a couple of great ambassa...

Welcome to Gear Talk! As always, this show is co-hosted by our friends Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs . In this installment of Gear Talk, we review one of the hottest new pieces of Swimrun Tech on the market: Frank Paddle ’s carbon fiber swim paddles. The founder of Frank Paddle, Fredrik Bengtsson , was cool enough to send us a medium and a large pair of paddles to check out and--spoiler alert...

Welcome to episode sixty-eight of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show, we’re taking another trip across the pond to Southern England to chat with Vinicius Vecchiatti and Sarah King of Söuthsea Swimrun . It was great to hear about how they are sharing their love for Swimrun and building community in Portsmouth, England.  More on this interview later in the show. It’s Race Wee...

Welcome to episode sixty-seven of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! On the show this week we have the one and only Aaron Palaian from Ödyssey Swimrun . He has a super interesting back story and we discuss everything from his roots in endurance sports to Orcas and Bears in Alaska to driving cross country flying the Swimrun flag and so much more.  More on this interview later in the show. Train...

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 go...

Ark Sports KORP Wetsuit Review Welcome to Gear Talk! As always, this show is co-hosted by our friends Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs . In this episode we do a deep dive into the Ark Sports KORP Wetsuit . This suit has gotten a lot of attention lately due to Ark deeply discounting the suit by 50% for a week that caused the corner of the internet that cares about Swimrun to freak out. We know th...

Welcome to episode sixty-five of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! In this episode, we chat with the race director of Swimrun Lake James , Kristen Jeno. This year’s race is coming up on April 24th and we have the origin story and a mini-course preview for everyone to listen to. More on this interview later in the show. Shoutouts We have a major shoutout this week to our friends G Flo and Tobi...

Welcome to episode sixty-four of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Welcome to the inaugural LTBz Go To the Movies episode where we review the film All the Way: The Making of Swimrun Champions. This film chronicles the journey of George Bjälkemo and Pontus Lindberg as they prepare for the ÖTILLÖ World Championship . But this film is so much more than that, it’s really a window into the sport o...

Welcome to episode sixty-three of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! In this episode, we head to the Gold Coast of Australia to chat with Ty Dowks from Burleigh Swim Run . It was great to interview Ty about his event and celebrate the 11th edition that took place earlier this year. More on this interview later in the show. Shoutouts This week we have not one, but two shoutouts! First, we’d lik...

Welcome to Gear Talk: The Löw Tide Böyz and Swimrun Labs swimrun gear review show! In this episode we discuss one of our favorite topics: Pull Buoys. We do a deep dive into the new Ark Sports Keel + and break it all down. Before we get into that, we have some gear updates. Gear Updates Annie dusted the cobwebs off of her old Finis Swim Snorkel and has started using it in the pool again to mixed re...

Welcome to episode sixty-two of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We know that we always say that we’re always super stoked about our guests but it’s just true. This week is no exception. On the show this week we have Carl Eneroth, the filmmaker behind the forthcoming documentary All the Way: The Making of Swimrun Champions . This film chronicles the journey of George Bjälkemo and Pontus Lind...

Welcome to episode sixty-one of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re super stoked about this week’s guest! We are headed to South America for the first time to check out the Swimrun scene in Brazil with Fabio Iskandarian. He’s the founder of Hero Swimrun and chief Swimrun Evangelist in the Rio de Janeiro area. It was great to interview him for the show and it really reaffirmed our theory t...