One Water Race Recap: Part IV w/Team 4

Welcome to episode 151 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!

On this week’s show we have the final installment of our four-part series recapping the inaugural One Water Race. Joining us for this episode is the winning team comprised of Swimrun royalty Kristen Larsson, Daniel Hansson, and Adriel Young. We get into all the details about what it took to win the inaugural event so you won’t want to miss that.

But first...

Training Update

The training update is that there is no training update! We’re enjoying some unstructured time off from training and it’s glorious.

Shoutouts

Our shoutout this week goes to Katie Tobin. She sent us a DM that she’s loving the podcast and we’re loving that she’s loving the podcast. She’s planning on making her Swimrun debut in 2023 and is looking for a female to partner with at events. If Nicolas Remires can’t work his magic, we’ll humbly try to help.

Feats of Endurance

This week’s winner is Rococo who posted a coastal Swimrun workout on the Brittany Coast in France over the weekend. It looked like a cool route for sure!

Make sure to sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for stuff.

This Week in Swimrun

We’ve got a short one for everyone this week.

Ever dreamed about racing a tropical Swimrun on an island off of the coast of Africa? Well if you haven’t, now you will! Swimrun Réunion took place over the weekend and the island and the event looked magical. Congrats to everyone that raced!

While it’s a bummer that Swimrun season is practically over in the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere is like “hold my beer.” Over the weekend, Torpedo Swimrun hosted their Cape Swimrun event in South Africa. Dubbed “Africa’s Original Ocean Swimrun” this event looked intense but super fun!

In other news, Wild Swimrun recently announced that their first camp for 2023 will be on the beautiful island of Mallorca. The camp will take place from March 23-26. We expect this camp to fill up fast so head over to their website to sign up!

That is it for this week. Feel free to reach out and let us know if there’s anything that you’d like for us to mention on the show.

Show Business

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One Water Race Part IV: Team 4-Sweden and Australia

What an honor to get Kristen, Daniel, and Adriel on the same show! The only one missing was the team’s boat driver (and OG Swimrunner himself) Johan Hasselmark who couldn’t make it at the last minute. At this point, anyone who listens to this show enough knows that Team 4 won the inaugural race but there is so much more to the story than the 47 hours that it took them to traverse the entire Stockholm Archipelago. In this interview, we chatted about their preparations, trepidations, and aspirations going into the race and got a flavor of their epic race experience. This was an eye opening conversation about how some of the best Swimrunners in the world conquered this grueling event. Enjoy!

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Thanks for listening and see you out there!

- Chip and Chris