Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast

Welcome to episode 144 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show we welcome back the co-founder of Wild Swimrun and all around amazing human being, Maria Rohman. Hard to believe that the last time we had Mia on was all the way back in episode 10 but she’s back to share all the latest news at Wild Swimrun and her thoughts on how to inspire the next generation of Swimrunners. But...

Welcome to episode 143 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! On this episode we are doing something new and starting a four part series to do a proper recap of this year’s inaugural One Water Race . If you don’t know what we’re talking about, the One Water Race is a 250km (200km of running and 50km of swimming) adventure race across the entire Stockholm Archipelago. Joining us for Part I we we...

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 u...

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....

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 t...

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 w...

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...

Welcome to episode 138 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show we welcome endurance legend Gordo Byrn. Gordo is a coach, stud endurance athlete and happens to be the only American to ever win ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship . He won the event in 2010 with partner, and fellow endurance legend, Jonas Colting , and we go into all the details of their epic day on the Archi...

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 U...

Welcome to episode 136 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! In this show we catch up with Rick Mann and Kris Corbett, A.K.A., Team We Be Family. We’ve been following Rick’s endurance exploits on Strava for years and learned that he was racing this year’s ÖTILLÖ Engadin with his niece Kris. We’ve been wanting to get this team on the show and figured we might as well get a race report for an ad...

Welcome to episode 135 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we have the final edition of our “Countdown to ÖTILLÖ” show where we discuss our journey to the start line of the 2022 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship . In our quest to leave no stone unturned, we have Helen Wikmar , CEO of ARK Sports to talk about all things gear (one of our favorite topics) for the big day.  But fi...

Welcome to Gear Talk with our friends Annie and Brooke from Swimrun Labs . In this episode, the gang catches up after several months since the last show and go through their various gear choices for Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay and the Folsom Swimrun .  Since this was the first show in a while there was a lot of new gear that was discussed, including the new Ark Sports UTÖ Air , KORP , and VIGG suits...

Welcome to episode 134 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Right on the heels of last week’s Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay race report show…we have another race report for this past weekend’s TBF Racing ’s Folsom Swimrun. This was our 10th Swimrun and our first with our collective families present to share in the experience. We went in with zero expectations for this inaugural Swimrun and we exp...

Welcome to episode 133 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got our second race report of 2022 to share with everyone this week! We just got back from Portland Maine after racing the sixth edition of Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay and we’re super stoked to share all the details of our third pilgrimage to the original U.S. Swimrun. It was a great weekend from the moment we arrived and it was...

Welcome to episode 132 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we have the latest installment in our Swimrun 101 series. In this episode, we are discussing our “official” LTBz top 5 tips for new Swimrunners entering the sport. We get these questions a lot and since we are on a mission to get as many people into the sport as possible, we thought that we would lay out our best thinking o...

Welcome to episode 131 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This is the fourth and penultimate edition of our “Countdown to ÖTILLÖ” show where we discuss our journey to the start line of the 2022 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship . It’s hard to believe that we are just two months away from the big day. Joining us on this episode to talk about all things ÖTILLÖ is returning guest, Jonas C...

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 Update Training has been interesting this week. Chipper h...

Welcome to episode 129 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We have a fun one this week! Fresh off of the heels of the EX SWIMRUN ’s ARK SUPERSPRINT and EX22 events we have Race Director Nicholas Roman back on the show to chat about these trailblazing races. It is becoming an annual tradition to have Nicholas on the show and we’re here for it! But first... Training Update Ödyssey Swimrun Casc...

Welcome to episode 128 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We have a great show for everyone this week! Joining us in Studio G are Liza Dunham and Mike Schiepke, a.k.a., Team Cali-Coed. We first met Liza and Mike in Catalina in 2020 and kept seeing them at the races. We’ve wanted to have them on the podcast for a while and we’re super stoked to share our conversation. But first... Training U...

Welcome to this bonus episode of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swiun Podcast! Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay is coming up in a few weeks and we wanted to share an addendum to our 2021 Casco Bay Course Preview episode. As some of you may know, the Casco Bay course changes every year or so and we wanted to make sure that everyone had the latest and greatest intel going into this year’s edition. In this addendum,...

Welcome to episode 127 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swiun Podcast! This week we have another installment in our Swimrun 101 series. In this edition, we are opening up the LTBz mailbag and answering the most recurring questions that we get in our emails and DMs. Enjoy! The LTBz Mailbag Are wetsuits required at every Swimrun? Yup. As far as we know, every Swimrun requires a wetsuit. Swimskins won’t cut...

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 Pad...

Welcome to episode 125 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We are stoked to have Gilles LaFleuriel, founder of TSR Swimrun on the show this week. Gilles does an amazing job calculating The Salamander Rankings and creates a lot of super-niche Swimrun content. As purveyors of super-niche Swimrun content ourselves, Gilles is a kindred spirit and we know that you will enjoy our conversation with...

Welcome to episode 124 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got something new for everyone this week. Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay is roughly eight weeks away and we thought it would be cool to do a show where we give everyone that’s on the fence about trying Swimrun (or help anyone that trying to convince their friends to try Swimrun) a road map for prepping for this year’s Casco Bay shor...

Welcome to episode 123 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We have a great show for everyone this week. Joining us in Studio G is John Yelland, one of the founders of Mad Hatter Sports and organizer of the upcoming Hokey Cokey Swimrun taking place on May 21st in Cornwall, UK. This was a great interview filled with lots of laughs, a feel-good origin story, and, of course, Swimrun content. But...