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 process.
Episodes
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...
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...
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 t...
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...
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
j...
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 Augu...
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 be...
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 ...
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...
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 fo...
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...
This month is Orcas Island month, and we are kicking it off with someone who is, safe to say, super stoked on swimrun. Julia Dinesen is a multi-discipline endurance athlete from British Columbia who found the sport via an Ötillö Instagram ad, signed up for the World Series distance at Whistler on her first ever attempt, and has been hooked ever since.
Before we get to Julia, we share a few tips for getting the most out of your swim...
Welcome to episode 331 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!
Four months out from the 20th anniversary of Ötillö, the Swimrun World Championship, and we are leaving no stone unturned. The physical training is building nicely. Chris just finished the London Marathon in 3:37 and downing 90 grams of carbs per hour, and Chipper has been stacking consistent weeks. Orcas Swimrun is at the end of the month. The build is very much on.
...
Welcome to episode 330 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast.
A few weeks ago we did our in memoriam for Max Andersson. This week we are going back to the vault to share our first solo conversation with him, originally recorded on June 30th, 2022 — just a few months before he and Hugo Torment would go on to win every single ÖTILLÖ World Series race that year, set a course record of 7 hours and 1 minute at the World Champio...
Welcome to episode 329 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!
You have done a few swimruns. You have the basic kit sorted. Now you are starting to notice the fiddly bits. Episode 329 is our Swimrun 201 breakdown of all of them — the advanced topics that come up once you have done a couple of races and started asking better questions.
We go deep on tether management, kangaroo top organization, gel storage for races of every...
Welcome to episode 328 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast.
On April 6th, Max Andersson — two-time Ötillö World Champion, Otillo World Championship course record holder, and one of the most beloved people in swimrun — died tragically in an avalanche in Norway. He was in his mid-thirties.
This episode is our attempt to honor him. We talk about what Max meant to the sport, share our own memories of time spent with hi...
Swimrun Shoes 101: Everything from the Knees Down | Episode 327
Welcome to episode 327 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!
The most popular gear question we get is about shoes. Do you need a special swimrun shoe? Are you going to get blisters running in wet socks? We are busting every myth in this one.
Episode 327 is a full Swimrun 101 breakdown of everything from the knees down — shoes, socks, laces, modifications, how...
Welcome to episode 326 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!
The Countdown to Ötillö series is back. With five months to go until the 20th anniversary of the Swimrun World Championship, we are kicking off a monthly series tracking our build all the way to September. This one is packed.
First, super intern Dave Damer joins us to break down the 2026 Ötillö start list. 199 teams, 24 countries, and nearly half the field doing Ötill...
Welcome to episode 325 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!
We’ve got a great show for everyone this week! We’re going back into the vault for our Throwback Mixtape series with a conversation from 2020 with the one and only Erika Rosenbaum. Not only is she an amazing Swimrunner, she launched the “short course” Swimrun movement, and if that wasn’t enough, she literally coined the name “Swimru...
Welcome to episode 324 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!
Get your note pads out for this one! Our friend and race director Brent Molsberry is on the show this week to share a course preview for the 2026 edition of ÖTILLÖ Orcas Island. This show is a must listen/watch for anyone racing the event, whether it’s your first Swimrun or your thirty-third. We discuss how to get to Orcas Island, share a leg by leg breakdown fo...
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