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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 process.
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- 6 days ago58 min
Throwback Mixtape #7: Casco Bay Race Report 2021
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 about the shark sighting email that hit every athlete's inbox before the start, the flooded bog crossing on Peaks Island, and the moment we realized we could hang with the lead pack in the water for the first time in our swimrun careers. We get into the tide strategy that turned a short swim into a sandbar crossing, the technical scramble across Vail Island with the Swimrun Monks and Beacon Blake, and the five mile push to Big Chebeague where we caught the Monks off guard. We finished in five hours and ten minutes, good for 10th place men's teams and 11th overall, a huge jump from our six hour and eighteen minute finish in 2018. We also cover the very first Löw Tide Böyz post-race party at Lone Pine Brewery, where close to 30 people showed up to swap war stories, and the goggle karma moment that closed out our day on the best possible note. Enjoy! That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the **Löw Tide Böyz**, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on **Apple Podcasts**, **Spotify**, and on **YouTube**. Check out our **website** for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page **@thelowtideboyz** on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at **lowtideboyz@gmail.com**. Finally, you can support our efforts on **Patreon**...if you feel so inclined. Thanks for listening and see you out there! Chip and Chris
- 1 weeks ago26 min
Top 5 Tips to be Race Day Ready
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 start line. Our first tip is studying the course and terrain ahead of time, pulling up the maps, understanding the legs, and knowing what kind of day you are signing up for so you are not cramming the night before. From there we walk through the day before the race, covering travel logistics, staying off your feet, dialing in a nutrition strategy, and using that time to connect with your race partner about goals and expectations. We also get into checking your kit early instead of at ten o'clock the night before, thinking through your fueling plan piece by piece, and building a morning of routine that takes the guesswork out of race day, from what you eat to when you get your coffee in. From there we cover the final minutes before the gun goes off, including warmup timing, when to take your last gel, and how to get your headspace right so you can run your own race instead of getting caught up in everyone else's. We close with a bonus tip, embrace the swimrun community. Show up to the shakeouts, the clinics, the post race parties, and talk to people. It is one of the smallest, friendliest communities in endurance sports, and connecting with it is one of the easiest ways to show up prepared. Enjoy! ~~~ That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the **Löw Tide Böyz**, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on **Apple Podcasts**, **Spotify**, and on **YouTube**. Check out our **website** for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page **@thelowtideboyz** on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at **lowtideboyz@gmail.com**. Finally, you can support our efforts on **Patreon**...if you feel so inclined. Thanks for listening and see you out there! Chip and Chris
- 2 weeks ago1h 21m
Countdown to Ötillö: 2 Months Out
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 way to Sweden. We welcome back Dr. Yael Schonbrun, a clinical psychologist and assistant professor at Brown University and cohost of Psychologists Off the Clock. Yael was last on the show in 2023 and she's back to talk about her new book, Why Don't You Understand Me?, which digs into why we so often think we understand each other better than we actually do, and it turns out we make an appearance in it. We talk through the overconfidence glitch that makes us assume we understand people, the difference between perspective taking and perspective getting, and we come clean about the confirmation bias that got us disqualified at Bellingham Swimrun this year. Yael gives real advice for setting communication ground rules with a swimrun partner, working through mismatched goals, and why validating each other before trying to solve a problem changes the whole conversation. We also get into values goals versus outcome goals, positive regard, and how the same tools that keep us on course in a race can help with the harder conversations off it, including the ones we'd rather avoid at the Thanksgiving table. This episode is brought to you by Precision Fuel and Hydration, who we have been working with since 2020. If you have questions about fueling or hydration, check out their site for free education content or book a call with one of their coaches. Enjoy! ~~~ That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon...if you feel so inclined. Thanks for listening and see you out there! Chip and Chris
- 3 weeks ago31 min
Bellingham Swimrun Race Report 2026
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 to show up for each other in moments like that. Race 26 together. These local races matter not for the result but for exactly this kind of thing, and getting out on course at Lake Padden is its own reward. Brent and Quest Races put on a beautiful event again, and the venue is as good as swimrun gets. On the race itself: Chris decided to lead most of the swims for the first time, which opened up some interesting territory heading toward ÖTILLÖ and alternating swim leads later in the season. We cover the gear setup (Ark Vigg wetsuits, Adidas Terrex shoes, arm sleeves, Frank Paddles LTBz Edition), the Precision Fuel & Hydration fueling breakdown from race day, and the small navigation adventure near the end that turned into a bonus loop and, honestly, a turning point for how we finished. The last run came in at sub-eight-minute miles two-plus hours in. We crossed in around 2:25 as the first place men's long course team (one of one, but somebody has to be there) and first overall team on the day. Also, shout-out to the guy in the black beanie who told us we looked badass on the trail. We needed that. Next up is Folsom Swimrun, one of the only swimruns in California and one we have been doing since it started. Come out and join us at Black Miners Bar. And if you are hearing about Swimrun Bellingham for the first time, go put it on next year's calendar. The Pacific Northwest is building something real. Enjoy! ~~~ That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on ApplePodcasts, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon...if you feel so inclined. Thanks for listening and see you out there! Chip and Chris
- Jun 25, 20261h 0m
Throwback Mixtape #6: Gear Talk Ark Vigg
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 flip-flops, and Stasher bags as a solution for organizing electrolyte tabs, before getting into the full Vigg breakdown. We get into what makes the Vigg and Vigg Air work, the Yamamoto limestone neoprene, the glide skin coating, and the seal on the sleeveless Vigg Air that designer Daniel Sand and his team in Sweden spent so much time dialing in. We talk through who this suit fits best, why it makes more sense as a second suit than a first, the back venting, the pocket setup, and where the fit and sizing can get tricky depending on body type. Chris also reads an original poem he wrote about the Vigg, because eight months without talking about this suit was apparently too long to go without writing one. Final ratings, a Casco Bay tangent, and plenty of love for a suit that has earned its place in the quiver. Enjoy! ~~~ That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the **Löw Tide Böyz**, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on **Apple Podcasts**, **Spotify**, and on **YouTube**. Check out our **website** for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page **@thelowtideboyz** on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at **lowtideboyz@gmail.com**. Finally, you can support our efforts on **Patreon**...if you feel so inclined. Thanks for listening and see you out there! Chip and Chris
- Jun 18, 202649 min
The Dutch Swimrun Scene
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 race in Vinkeveen just south of Amsterdam, for 15 years. The race predates the word swimrun in the Netherlands, and for years athletes did it in Speedos and surf shoes with no wetsuits, no pull buoys, and no idea there was a global sport building around the same idea. This year, to celebrate the race's 15th edition, they're running the championship as three consecutive loops of the course, 19 kilometers total, in pairs, with 750 participants across all distance categories. The race is on Saturday, July 18th. The classic single loop (6.5K) is filling up fast, but the Dutch Championships distance (3 loops, 19K) still has spots. You can find registration and race info at hetrondjeeilanden.nl. We dig into how the Dutch swimrun community organized itself from the ground up through WhatsApp groups and international race travel, what makes Vinkeveen's clear water and 12-island layout such a natural fit for the sport, and what the race weekend actually looks like: camping on the island, hot tubs, live music, and a party culture that fits right in with the swimrun ethos. If you're a Dutch swimrunner or just curious about connecting with the community over there, the WhatsApp community lives at swimrun.group with channels organized by region and a main hub called the SwimRun Huiskamer, which translates to SwimRun Living Room. Signal groups are also linked there for the WhatsApp-averse. Henk shares his own path to the ÖTILLÖ World Series this year, and Bart recounts what it was like to race ÖTILLÖ Stockholm for the first time last year on a foot injury, getting towed to the finish by his partner. Bart and his partner Sander Berk also chronicled the whole journey on their Substack, From Zero till Ötillö, at from0tillotillo.substack.com. The first 30 weekly training blogs have English translations, and the blog has since expanded with writers covering swimrun across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, including race coverage from ÖTILLÖ events. We also get into the broader Dutch swimrun landscape, including the Backyard Ultra Swimrun happening just north of Amsterdam on June 20th at Het Twiske. Athletes do a 5K loop every hour with short swims and runs mixed in, up to a 10-hour max. Find details and registration at swimrun.amsterdam. And if the Dutch race scene has you wanting to plan a European summer, check the show notes for all the links. On our end, we're two weeks out from Quest Swimrun Bellingham at Lake Padden and heading into the thick of our training block. After Bellingham comes Folsom Swimrun, then the 10th anniversary of ÖTILLÖ Casco Bay, and then ÖTILLÖ World Series in September. The list is long. The stoke is real.
- Jun 11, 202627 min
Countdown to Ötillö: 3 Months Out
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, how many fikas you can realistically fit into a single trip. We walk you through the whole week, starting from arrival at Arlanda and the Arlanda Express into Stockholm, through choosing between city center or Sigtuna, getting to Djurönaset and entering the race bubble, the ferry to Sandhamn on race morning, and finally what happens after you cross the finish line at Utö. We make the case for staying Monday night so you catch the post-race breakfast, which genuinely might be one of the best parts of the whole experience. We also check in on where our training is. Chip wrapped up a recovery week after ÖTILLÖ Orcas Island and jumped into a new block with a 4500-yard Monday swim thanks to Coach Liz, plus a new HYROX event on the calendar to keep the strength routine honest. Chris is officially starting his build, has been using the mental performance app from Dr. Erin Ayala's recent episode, and is treating strength as cumulative rather than all-or-nothing. Before the travel guide, we spend some time on gut training, which is something we are actively working on as part of our ÖTILLÖ prep. We break down how to establish your baseline carb intake, how to ramp it up incrementally, and the two practical tips we actually use in our own training: the 20-minute timer on the watch and grabbing an extra gel at every aid station. If you are planning on being out there for eight, ten, or thirteen hours, this stuff matters. Precision Fuel & Hydration has a free race planner tool with ÖTILLÖ loaded in, and their sports science team offers free one-on-one calls if you want to talk through your fueling plan specifically. Finally, keep an eye out for our Löw Tide Böyz Fika Meetup announcement. We will be hosting it again in Stockholm on Saturday, and last year we took over a pretty solid chunk of the cafe. You won't want to miss it. Enjoy! That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz**, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and on YouTube. Check out our website for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page @thelowtideboyz on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon...if you feel so inclined. Thanks for listening and see you out there! -Chip and Chris
- Jun 4, 202648 min
Ötillö Orcas Island Race Report 2026
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 was great, the energy was high, and ARK Sports set up shop and had one of their best sales days on record. Our buddy Tommy joined us as crew and camera and kept the whole operation running smoothly. By the time race morning arrived, we were ready. On the course, we cover everything: the technical singletrack, the cold open water swims, how we managed gear and nutrition over six and a half hours, and the moments where the partnership that makes swimrun what it is really showed up. This was our 25th swimrun together as a team, and the race reminded us exactly why we keep coming back. We also talk about why we think Ötillö Orcas Island is pound for pound the toughest swimrun in the United States, what the race confirmed about where our fitness is heading into the ÖTILLÖ World Championship, and what is next on the calendar including Bellingham Swimrun at the end of June and our sixth Ötillö Casco Bay for the 10th anniversary race. This episode is sponsored by FORM Swim. We have been using FORM goggles for years and they keep getting better. Head to formswim.com to check out their full lineup including the new Smart Swim 2 LT at a great price point. Enjoy! ~~~ That's it for this week's show. If you are enjoying the **Löw Tide Böyz**, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star rating and review since that's the best way for people to discover the show and the sport of Swimrun. You can find us on **Apple Podcasts**, **Spotify**, and on **YouTube**. Check out our **website** for Swimrun resources including gear guides, tips, how-to videos and so much more. Also make sure to check out our meme page **@thelowtideboyz** on Instagram. If you have any suggestions for the show or questions for us, send us a dm or an email at **lowtideboyz@gmail.com**. Finally, you can support our efforts on **Patreon**...if you feel so inclined. Thanks for listening and see you out there! Chip and Chris
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