Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast
by Low Tide Boyz
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
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ÖtillÖ Austin Race Report 2026
Welcome to episode 358 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This is our last race report of 2026, and it's ÖTILLÖ Austin. Chris just got back from Texas and Chip is on a work trip in Las Vegas, so we recorded this one from two different places. Austin gave us rain, clouds, and the highest...
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In the PF&H Labs with Emily Arrell and Dr. Lindsey Hunt
Welcome to episode 357 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! What happens when two swimrunners pull on their wetsuits and run for an hour on a treadmill in a heat lab? This week we find out. On our way to ÖTILLÖ, we stop at Precision Fuel & Hydration headquarters for a day and a half of sweat...
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Mixtape: Helen Ostet WILD Swimrun
Welcome to episode 356 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! With ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Austin coming up and a big crew of Wildies heading to Texas, we reach back into the vault for the tenth installment of our Throwback Mixtape series. This one originally ran as episode 276 in April 2025. It's our...
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LTBz Mailbag #2
Welcome to episode 355 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! The mailbag is back! We get questions in our DMs, in our inbox, and in person at races, and when the same ones keep coming up, it's time for another round of our Swimrun 101 series. We answer these with 30-plus swimruns under our...
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Fika with Coach Liz: Postpartum Training, Training Plans & AI Coaching
Welcome to episode 354 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We sit down for another fika with Coach Liz, a swimrun coach who works with swimrunners and returned to the ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Championship this year with her partner Jacob. We shared a good stretch of the course with them in...
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Swimrun Cape Cod Race Report
Welcome to episode 353 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We have another race report for you, and this one is a first. Chris just did his first ever solo swimrun at Swimrun Cape Cod, and we sit down a day and a half after he gets home to talk about it. Chris has never been shy about…
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Chris Wright's One Water Race Recap
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...
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Throwback Mixtape: Taking on Big Challenges w/Susie Moonan
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...
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Swimrun 201: 5 Tips for After Your A-Race
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…
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ÖTILLÖ the Swimrun World Championship Race Report 2026
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…
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Countdown to Ötillö: 0 Months and Ötillo Preview w/ Dominik Leu
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…
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Throwback Mixtape: Team Mr and Mrs B
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…
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Jen Schnell is Super Stoked on Swimrun
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…
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ÖTILLÖ Casco Bay Race Report 2026
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,...
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Countdown to Ötillö: One Month Out
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…
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Folsom Swimrun 2026 Race Report: The Dynasty Continues
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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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Throwback Mix Tape: Orcas Island Race Report 2021
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…
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Brian Johns Head of Coaching Science at FORM
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...
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Julia Dinesen is Super Stoked on Swimrun!
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...
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Countdown to Ötillö: 4 Months Out
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…
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Throwback Mixtape: Max Andersson
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...
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Swimrun 201: Mastering the Swimrun Minutiae
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...
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In Memoriam: Max Andersson
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.…
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Swimrun Shoes 101: Everything from the Knees Down
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…
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Countdown to Ötillö: 5 Months Out
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,...
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Throwback Mixtape #3: Erika Rosenbaum
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...
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ÖTILLÖ Orcas Island 2026 Course Preview
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...
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Pro Triathlete Eric Lagerstrom
Welcome to episode 323 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Joining us this week is pro triathlete (and Swimrunner) Eric Lagerstrom. He made his Swimrun debut last year at ÖTILLÖ USA Orcas Island and kicked off their “charity chaser” fundraiser with Eric starting 15 minutes after the start…
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HYROX Las Vegas 2026 Race Report
Welcome to episode 322 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got our first race report of the year this week! Chipper and his wife Kristen raced HYROX Las Vegas as a team a few weekends ago and they are here to share all the sights (six-pack abs), sounds (DJ music all day), and…
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Throwback Mixtape 2: Team Better Tethered Together
Welcome to episode 321 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re back this week with our second installment in our new series: Throwback Mixtape. In this episode we go all the way back to 2020 to re-share our conversation with Amber and Erin A.K.A., Team Better Tethered Together. Now six...
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Team Party Pace
Welcome to episode 320 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Partners Month continues this week! Joining us on the podcast is mixed team Sarah and Hugh, A.K.A., Team Party Pace. (An all-time great team name!) These teammates from afar have put together some impressive performances including...
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Team Wild VerMamas
Welcome to episode 313 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Our 5th annual Partners Month continues this week with a great show for everyone! Joining us from The Green Mountain State (Vermont) is Team Wild VerMamas, A.K.A., Amanda and Fiona. This team has burst onto the Swimrun scene with…
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Team Girlz Just Wånna Häve Buoyz
Welcome to episode 318 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve reached February and that means that it’s time for our 5th Annual Partners Month!!! We aren’t shy about saying that one of our favorite things about Swimrun is the partner aspect and we’re stoked to kick off this year’s…
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Throwback Mixtape 1: Team Swimrun Labs
Welcome to episode 317 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got something new (sort of) for everyone this week! We’re kicking off our new monthly series, called Throwback Mixtape, where we share some of our favorite conversations from our 6+ years of podcasting. We’re kicking things…
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Swimrun 101 (redux)
Welcome to episode 316 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! On this week’s show we enter the “way back machine” to revisit our original Swimrun 101 episode. (Episode 2 for anyone that’s counting) This is one of our most downloaded episodes to date and we thought that it was a good time to...
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Celebrating 10 Years of Casco Bay w/Lars Finanger
Welcome to episode 315 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week. Joining us to celebrate the 10th edition of the Casco Bay Swimrun and share the oral history of the event is our friend and race director Lars Finanger. In this conversation we look back...
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Pro Surfer and Author Kyle Thiermann
Welcome to episode 314 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! Our annual show kickoff is still going strong with this week’s guest. Joining us to talk about Swimrun, surfing, podcasting, and writing is pro surfer and author Kyle Thiermann. We talk about his first Swimrun experience at ÖTILLÖ...
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The Kebab League
Welcome to episode 313 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It’s our first show of 2026 and as per tradition, we are kicking off the year with a banger of an episode. Joining us in ringing in the new (Swimrun) year are the reigning ÖTILLÖ World Champions Arnaud de Lustrac and Jérôme Gueguen,...
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6th Annual LTBz Fireside Chat
Welcome to episode 312 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It’s time for our annual tradition to close out the year with a look back at our experiences and look forward to what will be “THE YEAR OF SWIMRUN!” in 2026. We’ve had a lot of new experiences this year and are grateful to end our...
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ÖTILLÖ Training w/Ulrika Ericksson
Welcome to episode 311 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got yet another great one this week! Joining us to discuss the new ÖTILLÖ Swimrun personal coaching option is head coach, former world champion, and all around amazing athlete Ulrika Ericksson. If that name sounds familiar, we...
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CIM 2025 Race Report
Welcome to episode 310 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! It’s finally time for our last race report of the year! Chipper raced the California International Marathon this past weekend and he shares all the feels from his first proper marathon in years. And by “proper” we mean actually...
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From Couch to One Water Race w/Vincent Meyer
Welcome to episode 309 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’ve got a great one for everyone this week. Joining us to share what was one of the best Swimrun stories of the year is Vincent Meyer. He was a late (like really late) substitute for this year’s One Water Race and his story of how...
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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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