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Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast

We are the Löw Tide Böyz (Chipper and Chris), a Swimrun team based in Northern California and we"re on a mission to help grow the sport of Swimrun in the United States while striving to make it as accessible, inclusive, and diverse as possible. On our podcast we share our love for the new-ish sport of Swimrun and interview race directors, athletes, and other cool people in the space all the while chronicling our own training and racing adventures and having as much fun as possible in the

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00:54:10

Chris Wright's One Water Race Recap

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2026/10/01

Welcome to episode 352 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!The 2026 One Water Race is done, and we have been wanting to talk about it since the live stream ended. We obsess over this race, have zero interest in racing it, and love watching it unfold. Joining us is Chris Wright of Team USA France, who raced the inaugural edition in 2022 and finished this year on his third start, touching the Landsort lighthouse at 2:30 in the morning with the whole One Water crew still cheering.Chris takes us

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00:55:27

Throwback Mixtape: Taking on Big Challenges w/Susie...

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2026/09/24

Welcome to episode 351 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!This week we pull another gem from the vault for our Throwback Mixtape series, rolling back to Ep 240, "Taking on Big Challenges w/Susie Moonan," recorded about a year ago on the eve of her One Water Race, one of the longest and toughest swimrun-style adventure races in the world. Coming off ÖTILLÖ this conversation felt like the right one to bring back, whether ÖTILLÖ is your someday goal or you are staring down your own big challenge

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00:19:30

Swimrun 201: 5 Tips for After Your A-Race

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2026/09/17

Welcome to episode 350 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!You just wrapped your A-race for the season. Maybe it was ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Championship, maybe it was your local A-race, and now you are standing there wondering what to do with yourself. We get this question a lot, and after our own trip to the World Champs, we figured it was time to lay out exactly what we do once the race is over.This is another edition of our ad hoc Swimrun 201 series, where we get into the more advanced corners

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01:06:32

ÖTILLÖ the Swimrun World Championship Race Report 2026

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2026/09/10

Welcome to episode 349 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!The 20th edition of ÖTILLÖ, the Swimrun World Championship, is in the books, and this one lives up to every bit of hype. A headwind held on for the entire day, conditions that longtime competitors and former world champions called the hardest they had ever seen, similar in difficulty to the famous 2017 edition but with the wind working against instead of with the field. We walk through the proper pig swim, a hip flexor lockup that left

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01:10:10

Countdown to Ötillö: 0 Months and Ötillo Preview w/...

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2026/09/03

Welcome to episode 348 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!The final countdown. Zero months and only days away from the 20th edition of the ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Championship. This is the last stop in our countdown series before we head to Sweden. We check in with hows the body, hows the mind and the hay already in the barn, and we share how we have been leaning on old race reports and course breakdowns to settle the nerves. Then we welcome back our friend Dominik Leu, ÖTILLÖ race director, for

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01:08:53

Throwback Mixtape: Team Mr and Mrs B

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2026/08/27

Welcome to episode 347 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We're throwing it back all the way to 2022 for our ninth installment of the Löw Tide Böyz Throwback Mixtape. This one comes from our second annual Partners Month, and re-listening to it gave us all the warm and fuzzies all over again. Chrissy and Bill Lankford, known to the community as Team Mr and Mrs B, join us to talk about swimrun as both life partners and race partners. They found the sport through the Toadman World Series, a set

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01:12:33

Jen Schnell is Super Stoked on Swimrun

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2026/08/20

Welcome to episode 346 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!This week we welcome Jen Schnell, a Bay Area swimrunner and designer who came into the sport from eight years of competitive triathlon. Jen first heard about swimrun on the Rich Roll Podcast, carved out space to try it, and got hooked right away with a solo race at Folsom. From there she raced Whistler solo, found her first partner in Kayla Kobelin at Austin, and this year has raced her way into the Ötillö Elite Program through the

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01:00:30

ÖTILLÖ Casco Bay Race Report 2026

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2026/08/13

Welcome to episode 345 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We just got home from Portland, Maine after racing the 10th edition of ÖTILLÖ Casco Bay, our sixth time toeing the line at this race. This week we break down the whole day, leg by leg, the same way we always do after a big race, sitting down fresh with our honest take. This was a hard Casco year. A high tide pushed our total swimming up to around 9,000 yards, close to the 10,000 yards we will cover at the ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World

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01:07:51

Countdown to Ötillö: One Month Out

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2026/08/06

Welcome to episode 344 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We are one month out from Ötillö, the 20th anniversary of the Swimrun World Championship, and it is starting to feel real. We open with our own check-in on where our bodies and heads are at heading into Casco Bay, which serves as our final dress rehearsal before Worlds, plus everything we have planned for our Löw Tide Böyz weekend in Portland, Maine including a morning fika, the Envol shakeout clinic, and our post race party. Then we

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00:34:50

Folsom Swimrun 2026 Race Report: The Dynasty Continues

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2026/07/30

Welcome to episode 343 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!This week we are back with our third race report of 2026, fresh off Folsom Swimrun long course, a race some version of the Löw Tide Böyz has done every single year for five years running. Spoiler alert, the dynasty continues with another overall team win, but with ÖTILLÖ Casco Bay two weeks away, we treated this one as a B race and a tune up. The Novato swim community showed out in force. Sarah and Robin, who share a Masters pool with

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00:58:40

Throwback Mixtape #7: Casco Bay Race Report 2021

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2026/07/23

Welcome to episode 342 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!With ÖTILLÖ Casco Bay celebrating its 10th anniversary in just a few weeks, we are digging back into the vault for this one. This is our race report from the 2021 edition, originally Episode 84 from August 2021, and re-listening to it took us right back to race morning on Peaks Island. This was our second time racing Casco Bay after debuting there in 2018, and it came after a full training block with a coach for the first time. We talk

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00:26:05

Top 5 Tips to be Race Day Ready

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2026/07/16

Welcome to episode 341 of the **Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!** Race season is picking up, with Folsom Swimrun just a couple weeks out, Casco Bay marking its 10th edition, and ÖTILLÖ, the Swimrun World Championship, coming up later this year. With so many new folks joining the sport, we wanted to put together the newest edition of our Swimrun 101 series, five tips to be race day ready, straight from over 25 swimruns worth of trial and error. Being race ready starts well before you get to the

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01:21:48

Countdown to Ötillö: 2 Months Out

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2026/07/09

Welcome to episode 340 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We are two months out from the 20th edition of ÖTILLÖ, the Swimrun World Championship, and this month's Countdown to ÖTILLÖ check-in is all about communication. Before we get into it we run through how the body and mind are holding up, including our tune up races at Folsom Swimrun and the tenth anniversary of Ötillö Casco Bay, and we share some news about a stop we're making at Precision Fuel and Hydration headquarters in the UK on our

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00:31:09

Bellingham Swimrun Race Report 2026

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2026/07/02

Welcome to episode 339 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We just got back from Bellingham, Washington with the full race report from our third edition of Swimrun Bellingham at Lake Padden Park. This was race two of the 2026 season on the road to ÖTILLÖ, and true to a six-year tradition, we are sitting down to break it all down. Chris came into this one carrying some extra weight after losing his father just a few weeks before the race, and there is something to be said for what it means

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01:00:08

Throwback Mixtape #6: Gear Talk Ark Vigg

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2026/06/25

Welcome to episode 338 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week we are climbing back into the swimrun hot tub for a throwback mixtape, and we are pulling out a fan favorite. We are rolling the original gear talk on the Ark Vigg and Vigg Air, the suit Chris has loved since his first swimrun in 2020 and has not stopped talking about since. This one comes straight from the vault, originally Episode 188 from August 10, 2023. The crew starts with gear updates, Ark prototype goggles, new

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00:49:08

The Dutch Swimrun Scene

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2026/06/18

Welcome to episode 337 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We're going across the pond this week, and not to Sweden for once. We met Bart Vandervaal on the ferry to Sandhamn at ÖTILLÖ last year and immediately started asking about his shoes. Nine months later, Bart and his co-race director Henk de Bock are on the show to tell us about the Dutch swimrun scene and the first ever Dutch Swimrun Championship.Bart and Henk have been organizing Het Rondje Eilanden, a 6.5-kilometer island circuit

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00:27:24

Countdown to Ötillö: 3 Months Out

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2026/06/11

Welcome to episode 336 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!Three months out from the ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Championship, and we are bringing you our most-requested episode type: the full day-by-day travel guide for race week in Sweden. We have done this race a handful of times and we get the same DMs every single year, so we decided to just answer everything in one shot. Where to stay, how to get from the airport, whether you actually need cash (you don't), what goes in your drop bag, and yes,

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00:48:14

Ötillö Orcas Island Race Report 2026

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2026/06/04

Welcome to episode 335 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!We just got back from Ötillö Orcas Island and this is our first swimrun race report of 2026. Five years after our first time racing on the island, we returned to a redesigned course, a stacked field, and a weekend that delivered from the moment we stepped off the ferry. This is episode 335 and it is a big one. The weekend kicked off with a FIKA shakeout co-hosted with Wild Swimrun and the newly launched Wild Onez podcast. The turnout

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01:26:23

Throwback Mix Tape: Orcas Island Race Report 2021

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2026/05/28

Welcome to episode 334 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!It is race week at Orcas Island, and we are going back to the vault. Episode 334 is Throwback Mixtape number five — a re-release of our 2021 Orcas Island race report from Episode 91. This race is one of the chapters in the book of the LTBz. Chipper showed up banged up from a fall, bonked hard somewhere in the middle of the course, and spent the better part of four hours getting dragged around one of the most brutal swimrun courses in

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01:13:03

Brian Johns Head of Coaching Science at FORM

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2026/05/21

Welcome to episode 333 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!Triple threes. We are officially in taper mode for Ötillö Orcas Island, and we brought back one of our favorite guests to help us make the most of what is left in the build. Brian Johns is Head of Coaching Science at FORM Swim and a three-time Canadian Olympian. He is also the brains behind the FORM training plans that Chris has been running almost exclusively for two years with excellent results — including some very generous feedback

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