Welcome to episode 231 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week. Joining us to talk about their experience on the ÖTILLÖ Whistler course are Lars Finanger and Marcus Barton. They recently went up to scope out the course (and make some changes) and we brought them on to share all the fresh intel with all of you. Get your notepads out for this one.

Welcome to episode 230 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Gear Talk is back! In this episode we do a deep dive into the FORM Smart Swim 1 and 2 Goggles. FORM was cool enough to support the show last month and send us pairs of their new Smart Swim 2 goggles. Since we had already purchased the Smart Swim 1 goggles we sent a pair up to Annie for her to test in “the lab.” We break down this amazing piece of training (and racing) tech and share our pull buoy rankings.

Welcome to episode 229 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a brand new show format for everyone this week. This “Yet To Be Named Show Format” is definitely not going to be called “Coaches Corner” but definitely features our first guest, Coach Liz Gilden. She’s a former pro triathlete, a fellow Swimrun kool-aid drinker and half of Team #batmansparents, the official meteorologist of The Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast, and endurance coach. In this show we pepper her with all...

Welcome to episode 228 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a new addition to our Swimrun 101 Series this week. In this episode we discuss the state of the Swimrun shoe in 2024, share our thoughts in choosing the right Swimrun shoe for your next race, and give our rankings on the current shoes that are out there.

Welcome to episode 227 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re stoked to welcome back to show our friend and legendary adventure racer Rob Preston. His team is gearing up to defend their One Water Race title and we checked with him on what it’s like to race a Swimrun that only takes a few hours, what it’s like to swim 70kms, and other such mind blowing topics.

Welcome to episode 226 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! You’ve asked…and we’ve (tried) to answer all your Swimrun questions in an As Us Anything-style format. We got Swimrun training, gear, and life questions on deck thanks to all the great questions that the fans submitted and we had a blast recording this show! For those interested in not just listening but also watching us talk, you can check out our conversation on the LTBz YouTube Channel. Thank you again to everyone that sent...

Welcome to episode 225 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got something for all you gear freaks out there this week! Joining us to have a deliciously niche chat about all things carbon fiber paddles is our friend and fellow obsessed Swimruner, Hugh Bowman. We’ve been fans of these paddles for years, talked about them incessantly, and in prep for this show, have pretty much tried all the paddles available now! So join us as we geek out on this particular piece of the Swimrun kit.

Welcome to episode 224 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We've got a great course preview for everyone this week. Joining us from Cape Cod to talk about Swimrun Cape Cod are New England Endurance Events Race Directors Kathleen Wheeler and Andy Scherding. This event is taking place on Sept. 21st in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and it’s going to be awesome! You don’t have to take our word for it, just listen to our conversation with Kathleen and Andy later in the show!

Welcome to episode 223 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got another “feel good” episode for everyone this week. Joining us from the U.K. are Jono Hey and Rob Bell, A.K.A., Team Ripped Club London. These guys have a great origin story and we had a blast chatting with them about all things Swimrun, as we are wont to do.

Welcome to episode 222 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re super stoked for this week’s episode for a couple of reasons. First, we survived April Fool’s Day. Second, FORM Swim is sponsoring the show all month long. And last, but not least, we have 3x Olympian and Head of Coaching Science at FORM Swim, Brian Johns on the show this week to talk about all about the Smart Goggle.

Welcome to episode 221 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great “feel good” episode for everyone this week. Joining us from Stockholm is our friend Henrik Forssell, a.k.a., The Swimrun Pappa. It was great to have him on the podcast to chat about all things Swimrun and his remarkable Swimrun streak.

Welcome to episode 220 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re super stoked to share another course preview episode this week. Joining us to discuss all things ÖTILLÖ Whistler is Race Director Dale Tiessen. We are very excited for another Swimrun in our time zone and can’t wait to share all the details on what is sure to be a magical Swimrun experience.

Welcome to episode 219 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week! Joining us from England to talk about the inaugural Studland Swimrun is race director David Trehane. This race is a labor of love by someone who loves Swimrun as much as we do. We do a deep dive on the newest event to hit the U.K. Swimrun calendar with a course overview/tourism bureau advertisement and so much more.

Welcome to episode 218 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re trying something new this week and will be sharing all the Swimrun events taking place (and our annotated thoughts) on this year’s US race calendar. There are a ton of races happening and we’re here for it! Obviously you should sign up for as many races as you can.

Welcome to episode 217 of the show. Partners month 2024 concludes this week with Chipper and Chris pontificating about our top 5 tips for the best Team Swimrun Experience Ever! We’ve combed our deep archive of show guests and will share our favorite wisdom nuggets on the whole partners thing…our favorite aspect of Swimrun. Be sure to check out our previous partners Swimrun 101 episodes 4 and 111.

Welcome to episode 216 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Partners month 2024 continues this week with a new team formed for one righteous purpose: to race this year’s edition of ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship. Joining us in Studio G this week are our dear friends Addison Nuding and Phil Saenkov, A.K.A. Team “TBD.” In this conversation we chatted about how the team came together, how they are planning on training from afar, and what their goals are for the experience. We talk a...

Welcome to episode 215 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We have an awesome show for everyone this week. Joining us to share their ÖTILLÖ story is Anna and Ben, A.K.A., The Kalamanders. Their unique journey to and at the 2023 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship is as inspiring as it was awesome. We totally loved this conversation and know that you will too!

Welcome to episode 214 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Happy Swimrun Christmas everybody! Fresh off the news that they qualified for the 2024 ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun Championship we welcome to the show our friends Pete and Jarett, A.K.A., Team MamaaBoyz. We had a fun conversation about their brief but epic Swimrun journey and we got their thoughts on the additional epicness that this year will hold in store for them.

Welcome to episode 213 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! In this episode we are kicking off our fourth annual Partners Month where we feature one of our favorite parts of Swimrun: the partner aspect. Kicking things off this year is the father and son duo of Team Feel The Byrn, A.K.A. Axel and Gordo Byrn. If the name Gordo sounds familiar, well it should! We spoke with Gordo back in Episode 138 and he is a wealth of knowledge on all things endurance training…and parenting. This was an...

Welcome to episode 212 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! In this week’s episode we dive into our long bucket list of Swimrun events that we want to participate in and take you with us (figuratively) to the Gulf of Morbihan and present to you the award winning Swimrun Troll Enez. Co-race directors Laura, Renan, and Jocelyn join to tell us all about this amazing event.

Welcome to episode 211 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! In this episode, we head across the pond to Wales for a proper chin wag with We Swimrun Founder, Mike Alexander. We met Mike in Sweden last year and hit it off right away while engaged in an exchange of laurels (We swim caps for LTBz buffs). We knew that we wanted to get him on the show and although it took us almost 4 months to make it happen…make it happen we did! This was a great chat and we can’t wait to share it with all of...

Welcome to episode 210 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got the whole gang together for the 2nd Annual Gear Talk Gear awards! We came with some new unique/funky categories this year. On a more somber note, this will also be the last show where Brooke joins us as she is moving on to other interests. Please join us in thanking her for her participation in Gear Talk over the last three years.

Welcome to episode 209 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It’s a new year and we’re stoked to kick it off with one of our favorite humans and Swimrunner extraordinaire, Fanny Kuhn. If you aren’t familiar with Fanny, she is a two-time Swimrun World Champion, Co-founder of Wild Swimrun, and is basically Swimrun royalty. We can’t think of a better guest to start year 4 of the podcast.

Welcome to episode 205 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Welcome to our final show for 2023. This week we have another installment in our Swimrun 101 series, this one on gear maintenance. We get a lot of gear questions (we love them, keep them coming) and a good amount are about how to maintain gear. So we thought we’d put something out there with our best thinking on how to look after your Swimrun kit.

Welcome to episode 207 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This is our fourth annual “Fireside Chat” where we take a look back at 2023 and look forward to what’s next. This year has been another epic one on so many levels and we are filled with gratitude for the love and support of our families, friends, Patreon members, brand sponsors, and fans of the show. Our brand of super niche content will continue unabated in 2024.