Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast

Welcome to our third Low Tide Boyz swimrun gear review show! This review is co-hosted by our friends at Swimrun Labs and we’re super stoked to have them back for another episode. This show is all about swimrun shoes! Instead of doing a specific review of a product this week, we thought it would be helpful to take a big picture look at Swimrun shoes and all the considerations that should go into se...

Welcome to episode twenty-four of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got something completely new this week! For this week’s show we’re doing a deep dive into Ötillö’s Engadin World Series race. We thought that since this was the first major race to happen after shelter in place orders have lifted that it would be cool to test out a new format for race previews. We definitely couldn’t hav...

Welcome to episode twenty-three of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show, we have Asher Clark, the Co-founder of Vivobarefoot . We will be talking about the origin story of the company and do deep dive into the new Vivobarefoot ECS Tempest Swimrun shoe . (We also talked about surfing, which is awesome!) More on that later in the show. We added another thing to the list of “thin...

  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...

Welcome to our second Low Tide Boyz swrimrun gear review show! This week we are reviewing the Ark Sports Keel Pull Buoy . This review was co-hosted by our friends at Swimrun Labs and we think that you will enjoy this review as we left no stone unturned for this one. We first learned about the Keel while researching swimrun brands to interview for show and quickly became obsessed with this pull buo...

  Welcome to episode twenty one of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show we have Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs . We had a great chat with them about their journey in the sport and their review website. Training was interesting this week. Chipper remains sane and Chris ran from his house to a coffee shop 37 miles away hitting all the main peaks of Marin County. You can chec...

Welcome to episode twenty of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show we have the CEO of blueseventy , John Duquette. We had a great conversation about the brand and their expansion into swimrun. For shout outs this week we are saying hi to Sossi! She’s a Bay Area swimmer and former triathlete that is a big fan of the show. She recently reached out to Chris to let him know that th...

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 t...

Welcome to episode nineteen of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show we have Lars Finanger of Ödyssey Swimrun . This might be one of our favorite shows so far. (Every other show is tied for second place!)  We’re still under shelter in place and still training for life at this point. We’ve also committed for some reason to grow our hair out. Chris has already been on that train...

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 thi...

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 en...

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 un...

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...

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, speci...

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 unde...

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...

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 t...

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...

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 plac...

Welcome to episode nine of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast! Team ARKsouls Addnature Ötillö Race Report 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 ARKsou...

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...

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...

Welcome to episode five of the Low Tide Boyz, a swimrun Podcast ! On this week’s show we chat with the San Diego-based swimrun team Sean and Phillip A.K.A., The Swimrun Monks.  But first…we wanted to thank everyone that’s been listening to the show and reaching out with questions and feedback. It has been great to see and even though there are people way more experienced than us we’ll keep trying...

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 ar...

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 c...