About this episode
Welcome to episode fifty-seven of the Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast! We’re officially in February and this month we are kicking off a series of interviews all about partners. This month we will be featuring teams from all over the world to chat about one of the funnest aspects of Swimrun. This week we are chatting with Toby and G Flo of Team Max Mockermann from Germany. They have been supportive of the show since we started out and we were super stoked to finally get to sit down and chat with them. More with Toby and G Flo later in the show. Shoutouts This week we’re shouting Henrick Forssell. We’ve been connected with him on the internets and he regaled us with stories about Helas Frostbite Swimrun and his plans to host a fun monthly swimrun for folks in Stockholm all year. Keep up the great work! Adventure Time/Training Updates We are still training at our own speeds but we’re starting to turn the screws a bit in the pool so we should have sore lats for the foreseeable future. Other than that, Chris is ramping up for some long runs and Chipper is putting in a ton of HIIT work. Feats of Endurance This week’s Feats of Endurance honoree is Alexis Humeau in Paris, France. He low-key threw down a 55km point-to-point run from Sarzeau to Vannes in Eastern France over the weekend. An impressive feat for sure...and the course looked Swimrunnable too! Make sure to join us on Strava and cheer on your fellow Swimrunners as they train all over the world. This Week in Swimrun (Powered by Raceid.com ) We have a few race updates to share this week. Congratulations to everyone that qualified for the ÖTILLÖ World Championship! This is no small feat with a record amount of submissions for entry for the race that started it all. We look forward to cheering you all on from afar (and maybe from near) on September 6th. Swimrun Lake James , happening on April 24th, is officially sold out for both the short and long course distances. They do have a waitlist going, so sign up for that if you’re interested in racing. On a side note, they have the teams list on their site and some of the team names are 100% solid gold. Here’s a sample of what the race directors will be dealing with: Hold My Paddles While I Poop, Phyllis Hold My Shower Beer, Still Unsure Why We’re Doing This, Traveling Dingleberries, Vodka Juniors, and While our Bikes Gently Weep. If you’re listening and part of one of these teams, send us a message and we’ll put some stickers in the mail for you. The race date of October 3, 2021 has been set for Ödyssey Swimrun Lubington and registration is officially open with super early bird pricing that’s good through February 14th. The course looks dope but don’t take our word for it. You can check out the Short and Long Course maps on their website. We have a correction from last week’s edition: we mentioned that Hero Swimrun was an ÖTILLÖ qualifier. It was a qualifier in 2020 but it’s not one this year. That’s it for this week. Feel free to email us to tip us off to any events or Swimrun news that you’d like for us to share on the show. Updates We’ve narrowed down the options for our forthcoming hats and will be posting the mockups up on IG for folks to vote on what they like best. We’re super stoked to report that we’ve passed 25,000 total downloads this week. When we started the show, we always hoped that people would listen but to think that we would also get so much support and encouragement from our listeners has been amazing. To celebrate this milestone, we’ve come up with some new stickers for everyone to slap on their cars, bikes, water bottles, etc. These “Super Stoked on Swimrun” stickers are free for everyone who wants one. Just drop us a message on IG or send us an email with your address and we’ll put one in the mail for you. This Week’s Interview To kick-off partner’s month, we have Toby and G Flo all the way from Germany. We first learned about Team Max Mockermann when we started the show but we realized what we were dealing with when they posted a video of them running and trying to swim in the snow the day before ÖTILLÖ Engadin last year. We knew then and there that we wanted to have them on the show. In this interview, we chat about how they met and decided to team up, how they train for Swimrun when they live in different parts of Germany, and how they are doing their part to build up the Swimrun community where they are. They also have their own podcast that they record while they are training on Zwift ...so there’s that! This was a really fun interview and we think that everyone will enjoy it. You can follow Team Max Mockermann’s exploits on Instagram and check out their podcast (it’s in German.) 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 five-star review. 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