About this episode
Welcome to episode 114 of the Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast! This week’s episode is a good one. For the first time on the show, we have a Mother/Daughter duo joining us to talk about how that works! We are stoked to have Brooke and Samantha Fallon, A.K.A., The Fearless Fallons, on the podcast to share their Swimrun journey with all of us. But first... Training Update Swimrun Lake James is now only 6 weeks away! Open water swims are coming soon but until then, make sure to check out our course preview episode if you’re racing Lake James or are just curious about what we’ve gotten ourselves into. Shoutouts We’ve got multiple shoutouts this week! A big shoutout to the previous guests of the show Lolo Armstrong of Team Run for Tacos for running his first marathon over the weekend. Super stoked for you dude! Another big shoutout goes out to our favorite journalist Adam Skolnick for completing the 4x4x48 Goggins Challenge for the second year in a row. Bonus shoutout to Adam’s wife April for completing the challenge as well. Strong work! Feats of Endurance This week’s winner is Ignacio Eduardo Duarte Harriet for posting a nuts 77 mile, 8,000ft of elevation bike ride from Caracas, Venezuela. The elevation profile from that ride looked totally bonkers so strong work there! We have a bonus winner this week as well. Special kudos to our friend Derek Rosner for posting a run from Chris’s hometown in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (For those just tuning in, any workout posted from Puerto Rico is an automatic winner for this segment.) Join in on the fun and sign up for our LTBz Strava Club and join Swimrunners from around the world as they train for Swimruns, life, and stuff. This Week in Swimrun Welcome to the LTBz news desk. Race season is almost upon us in the United States and now is a good time to put one or four Ödyssey Swimrun events on your race calendar. Need an additional incentive? Use the code “LOWTIDEBOYZ” at checkout to save 15% off of your registration. Swimrun Lake James , taking place on April 23rd in Lake James, North Carolina is super close to selling out so if you are waiting until the last minute to sign up…now is your time! See you there! By the way, if you happen to be in North Carolina this weekend…DM Marcus Barton for deetz on a low-key Swimrun training that he and fellow Swimrunners are doing on the course. Over in Europe, Swimrun Portugal’s Azores Islands Swimrun is taking place in a few weeks on March 22nd. The race looks amazing so if anyone is racing it, let us know how it went. If you’re not familiar with the French Swimrun Man series, well you really should be. Their races look as picturesque as they are intense. Case in point, their first event of the year, the Gorges du Verdon Swimrun taking place on May 1st offers four distances, including a kids Swimrun (cool!), a “Classic” 28km Swimrun (sounds doable), a “Half” 47km Swimrun (that’s the half?!), and an “ Ultra ” 66km Swimrun…that’s also an ÖTILLÖ Merit Race . (We’d hope so at that distance!) That is it for this week. Feel free to reach out and let us know if there’s anything that you’d like for us to mention on the show. Updates The Catalina Swimrun Adventure is almost here! The fun starts on Friday, March 18th with a beach clean up group activity, followed by a longer Swimrun on Saturday starting at 11am from Avalon and on Sunday the 20th, a shorter Swimrun, followed by brunch, and then an afternoon trail run. Reach out to us for more details and RSVP on Facebook . We have a new LTBz supporter to announce!! The awesome folks at Precision Fuel and Hydration are taking us under their wing this year to help us prepare for ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship . Everyone that has listened to the show knows how big of fans we are of PFH products since we did our first Sweat Test a few years ago and we are super stoked to get their support this year. If that wasn’t enough, PFH has set up the discount code that’s good for 15% off of your first order. Help make us look good and use the code LOWTIDE22 at checkout. Team Fearless Fallons It was great to catch up properly with Brooke and Samantha. We loved how they found Swimrun and decided to team up to race together. In this conversation we talked about their athletic roots, how they prepare for races while Samantha is in college, and why Swimrun is awesome. We loved this conversation and know that you will as well. Enjoy! That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz , be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player and leave us a five-star review. You can find us on Apple Podcast , Spotify , Google Podcast , and on YouTube . You can also follow our meme page on Instagram . Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback and/or suggestions. Finally, you can support our efforts on Patreon …if you feel so inclined. Thanks for listening and see you out there! - Chip and Chris