Episode Details

Welcome to episode forty-five of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast!

We’ve got a special episode this week. We just finished racing Ödyssey Swimrun Austin on Sunday, November 8th and we’ll be sharing our race report from our weekend in Texas. We were super stoked to be able to race and hope that you enjoy our thoughts on how that whole thing went. (Spoiler alert: Stoke level is still super high!)

Initial Thoughts

It was a stressful week with the election, COVID, travel, and a race on the horizon. We felt better once we got to Texas and we were really happy with our performance on race day. Sure, we could have trained harder…but we probably would be saying that regardless of how hard we trained. Regardless of our level of fitness, we managed to put together a strong performance and that only a small part of what was an amazing weekend.

Getting to Texas/Pre-race Meeting

Getting to Pace Bend Park from AUS was pretty easy (Chipper picked Chris up from the airport on Saturday afternoon) and we managed to show up only slightly late to the mandatory pre-race meeting.

Shout outs to folks that we connected with this weekend: (We’re really sorry if we missed anyone)

Drew and Michael

Brooke and Samantha

Adrian

Trevor AKA The Copper Paladin

Trista and Amy (Who brought us a giant donut from Round Rock Donuts)

Mel

Jenny

Bob

Rick (from Florida)

Chase

Chris

Matt

Melissa

Gemma

Kristen (RD at Swimrun Lake James in April 2021)

Lee Green LIKE THE COLOR (Chris’s new bestie)

The entire Odyssey team!

It was also great to see previous guests of the show as well:

Bronwen and Greg AKA The Boston Wet Sox

Andy Hewitt

Blake and Beek AKA Team Envol Baywatch

Sean and Phillip AKA The Swimrun Monks

Marcus Barton

John Stevens (he had a cameo on Gear Talk. Future full episode with John coming soon!)

Lars Finanger, Race Director for Ödyssey

It was really great to see everyone and we really appreciated all the kind words from folks saying that they listened to the podcast and found it helpful in their race prep. 

That night we put into practice a lot of the advice that we had learned from previous guests of the show and made our plans for the race. The main things that we wanted to put into practice on race day were: having a detailed plan for nutrition, hydration, and when to cab down (Team Precision Hydration UK and The Boston Wet Sox); focusing on technique especially fast transitions in and out of the water and at energy station (Andy Hewitt and Nicolas Remires); stay mentally engaged in the race and problem solve quickly (Mario Fraioli, Johan Carlsson, and Oscar Olsson); and Swim straight (