John Stevens

Welcome to episode forty-six of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast!This week we have John Stevens on the show. He’s a coach with Purple Patch Fitness, Assistant Race Director with Ödyssey Swimrun, endurance adventurer, and a stud Swimrunner in his own right. We had a really great chat with him and look forward to sharing that with you later in the show.Training Update/NEW SEGMENT ALERTNo update this week because it’s the off-season!! We still plan on training and stuff but we will be pretty unstructured outside of continuing to swim on a regular basis. Our goal is to not eat our way through the holidays but that’s still TBD.In other news, we are starting to plan an epic Swimrun adventure in Northern California and will be documenting the journey in a new segment called “Adventure Time” where we will keep you all informed on our progress. This adventure could be epic or an epic fail but either way, strap in for the ride! ShoutoutsThis week we’re shouting out all of our listeners that use CastBox to listen to our podcast. We’ve never heard of this app but here’s a tip of the hat to the 1.48% of our listeners that use that app!Feats of EnduranceWe’re going to put a pause on this segment until 2021 but we will still be keeping tabs with kudos to everyone in our Strava Club and look forward to following everyone’s training and adventures. On that note, if you’re planning Swimrun adventures, let us know! With no races happening, this will be a fun way to keep folks engaged in the sport that really doesn’t require events in order to take place.This Week in Swimrun (Powered by Raceid.com)With COVID cases on the rise in Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere, there were no events this weekend and it’s looking like Swimrun Austin may end up being the last race of the year. While this is a bummer, we urge all our listeners to exercise caution, listen to the scientists, wear masks, engage in social distancing, and stay safe. We will get through this. UpdatesOur latest column in Triathlete Magazine, The Swimrun Pull Buoy – A Love Story, is out on the digital newsstands. Check it out and let us know if you share our love for all things pull buoy. This Week’s InterviewAs mentioned above, we have John Stevens on the show this week. He’s a close to a household name (among U.S. Swimrunners) as you can get. He’s raced almost every Ödyssey Swimrun event (in addition to being an assistant race director) as well as ÖTILLÖ events including the World Championship. In this interview, we touched on a bunch of topics. John gave us his mini-race director report of how Ödyssey Swimrun Austin went. We chatted about his origin story and how he found Swimrun. We also talked about his newfound enjoyment of endurance adventures. Finally, we peppered him with questions for swim training during the offseason.There was a lot of good stuff in this interview and we think that you’ll enjoy it.Listeners can follow John on Instagram and sign up for coaching through Purple Patch Fitness.That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a review. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram. Email us at [email protected] with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.