Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast

Welcome to this bonus episode of the Löw Tide Böyz, a Swimrun Podcast! A few weeks ago, we dropped our deep dive course preview of the Ödyssey Swimrun Austin race coming up on November 8th. That episode has been listened to over 500 times and it appears that folks are getting a lot of value from it…which we love.  Given that this is a first-year race, there are a lot of gaps in our review. Fortuit...

Welcome to episode forty-one of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we have Ben and Rhian Martin of Team Precision Hydration UK. You can probably guess where they are based out of by this point but what you might not know is that they were the number 1 ranked mixed team in the Ötillö World Series in 2017 and 2018. They’ve traveled all over Europe to race and they share their wealth of...

Welcome to episode forty of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we have coaches Lauren and Matt Hurley from Black Sheep Endurance Project on the show. Besides being super accomplished athletes in their own right, they are also leading the way in training athletes for multisport and Swimrun. Get your notepads ready because this show is packed with great info. More on the interview late...

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...

Welcome to Gear Talk with Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs . In this episode, we do a deep dive into Swim Paddles for Swimrun. If you’re new to Swimrun you’ve probably seen photos or videos of races with folks wearing giant paddles, and other swimrun gear , as part of the race kit. We discuss why paddles are so ubiquitous in Swimrun, how to minimize your risk of injury in using paddles, and we h...

Welcome to episode thirty-eight of the Löw Tide Böyz, a Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a super-comprehensive course preview for you this week. We’re doing a deep dive to give you as much information as possible for Ödyssey Swimrun Austin happening on November 8, 2020. This is our second attempt at this type of show and we tweaked the format a little bit to take into account that this will be the first...

Welcome to episode thirty-seven of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show, we have Jon Littlewood from Swimrun Club. He’s a Swimrunner out of the UK that is doing some really cool stuff for the sport. More on his interview later in the show.   Training Update Our training plans were ramping up for Ödyssey Swimrun Austin on November 8, 2020, but wildfires on the West Coast have p...

Welcome to Gear Talk with Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs . On this episode, we answer a question that we got from several of our listeners: what GPS Wearable should I get for swimrun? We discuss everything that should be considered in choosing a GPS watch and share our personal favorites. But first… Gear Updates/First Impressions Annie ordered the  Aquasphere Classic Pullbuoy that was mentione...

Welcome to episode thirty-six of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On the show this week we are talking with George Bjälkemo and Pontus Lindberg of Kraken Swimrun to chat about their epic 3-day Swimrun Adventure covering the entire Stockholm Archipelago. Yes, you heard that right. A total distance of 242km while traversing 79 islands in just 42 hours! George and Pontus are also the reigning Öt...

Welcome to episode thirty-five of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On the show this week we are going across the pond to Europe to learn about the Swimrun scene in Portugal with Bruno Safara of Swimrun Portugal . This was a fun one! More about the interview later in the show.  Training Update Our training plans are still sideways due to forest fires in Northern California and the terrible air...

Welcome to another episode of Gear Talk with Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs. In this episode, we break down the different parts of the Swimrun kit with an emphasis on keeping it under a budget of $350 for those interested in getting into the sport of Swimrun but want to dip your toe in and not go full cannonball. We’ll talk more about that later in the show. Gear Updates/First Impressions Anni...

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 Update Our training plans went sideways this past week due to forest fires in Northern California. We’ve had to stay indoors because of the poor...

Welcome to episode thirty-three of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On the show this week we have Team Cali Swimrun Girls. Caroline Wolek and Kelsie Pearson are a Swimrun team out of Southern California and part of the California Swimrun crew with Andy Hewitt , Sean Durkin, The Swimrun Monks , and others. More about this interview later in the show. Training Update We didn’t do a Swimrun prac...

Vivobarefoot ESC Tempest Review Welcome 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: Vivobarefo...

Welcome to episode thirty-two of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! One the show this week we have Gerry Rodrigues, Founder of Tower 26 , and Emma-Kate Lidbury . Former Pro Triathlete and Editor at Triathlete Magazine , to talk about their new book: Triathlon Swimming: Master Open Water Swimming with the Tower 26 Method . We do a deep dive into the book and their swimming methodology later in t...

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 Update We are still training for something—not sure what yet—but...

Welcome to the (newly named) Gear Talk: The Löw Tide Böyz and Swimrun Labs review show! In this episode, we do a deep dive into the Ark Sports ORNÖ 02 Swimrun wetsuit. We’ve talked about Ark Sports a lot on Gear Talk and we’re stoked to take a closer look at the ORNÖ 02 suit. Both Chipper and Annie have used the ORNÖ 02 in training and racing so we get their perspective on the suit while Brooke an...

Welcome to episode thirty of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! We have the one and only Mario Fraioli on the show this week. He’s an Olympic level running coach, host of the morning shakeout podcast/newsletter, and the last member of the Marin County Holy Coaching Trinity of to be interviewed for the show. ( Mike Olzinski and Nate Helming are the other two members of that crew.) More on Mario...

Welcome to episode twenty-nine of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! In honor of Ötillö Engadin happening this week, our guest is Johan Carlsson , a member of last year’s winning Otillo Engadin men’s team ( Team Simployer ). We chatted about his story, mental toughness and, of course, Swimrun. More on Johan later in the show! Training Update Well we did Nicolas Remires ’ 3-hour Engadin key swim...

Orca Swimrun Wetsuits Review Welcome to the fifth Löw Tide Böyz swimrun gear review show! This review is once again co-hosted by our friends Annie and Brooke from the Swimrun Labs . This episode is all about Orca Swimrun Wetsuits and Accessories. Brooke and Chris have used several Orca suits so they review while Chipper and Annie ask the questions. It’s good stuff so let’s get right to it. Orca ha...

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 Update Training continues to go well. A lot of swimming happening lately and we’re ramping up to take on Nicolas Remires’s 3-hour...

Welcome to episode twenty-seven of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s guest doesn’t need much of an introduction. Within Swimrun circles if you just say the name “Desirée” and everybody knows who you are talking about. Hailing for Stockholm Sweden, she is the reigning two-time Otillo Swimrun World Champion (2018 & 2019) with her partner and friend of the show Fanny Kuhn (she was...

Welcome to the fourth Low Tide Boyz swimrun gear review show! This review is once again co-hosted by our friends at Swimrun Labs and this is going to be a regular thing going forward to we’re very happy about that. Like our swimrun shoe Shoedown episode , this episode covers that nebulous category of Swimrun gear that goes beneath your Swimrun gear. Think undershirts, bras, undies, nothing, and so...

Welcome to episode twenty-six of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show we have Thor Hesselberg, endurance athlete and race director of Rockman Swimrun . We have a fun chat with him about the Swimrun scene in Norway and talk about his truly epic race. More on that later. We wanted to give everyone a quick reminder that we have some discount codes from former guests that are stil...

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 di...