DO NOT do a Swimrun Race Before Watching This Video! 

You should invite Jonas Colting for an interview. He has attended all Ö till ö-races since the start. Also has around 6 medals from the European and World championships (triathlon). He also has his own wet-suit-brand. And finally, he knows details about how Swimrun started here in Sweden. 😎

Great episode! Love the info in this one . !!!

After 7 years of triathlons I was feeling burnt out. Did my first swimrun in 2017 and loved it. It’s a little less structured but because you have a partner you have a team aspect to it. You don’t want to let them down and feed off of each other through the highs and lows in a long course race. You’re miserable at times, but it feels incredible once you cross the finish line and can’t wait for the next race. Casco Bay Maine has a great race and is more of a traditional Otillo style race. Low Tide Boyz have good podcast and tons of information about swimruns

Awesome video Taren. This looks fantastic fun.

Great video mate. 👍 Thanks. I saw some guys swim run training at the lake today and ended up here. 🏊‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Great video! Truly helpful ! Thanks a ton!

Hi, I've been following your channel for a long time and everything in your videos has always been spectacular. The sessions are great, the quality is fantastic... this channel is absolutely brilliant and you helped me a lot with the majority of my curiosities about swimming, thank you so much, I appreciate everything you do on RU-vid, good job! Anyway, I would like to make a suggestion (if it's not a problem for you): I'm convinced that you can add a really funny video on your channel to show us some of the funniest things happened while swimming or even during other water activities, I was thinking of something like a "oops and bloopers" compilation. For example, you could gather all of the times where you or your swimmer friends get recorded on video during ops time... like a pee time! Once, my uncle, who is a swimmer too, told me “oh that’s a buoy, I mean, my ocean toilet, hang on!” while we were swimming in the ocean and it was soooo hilarious and funny that I almost died 😊. He always tells me there are 2 types of swimmers, divers and surfers: those who pee in the water and those who lie. If you want, you could also include those "releasing" moments as small clips in the future videos just to keep having a bit of humor on your channel, you can use both old and new clips, what do you think? Yeah… I know, it could sound weird for your right now, but, in my opinion, it's the funniest thing about divers and swimmers, believe me. When a swimmer pees in the water (even if it’s a pool), I think they demonstrate to be someone who is not afraid of consequences or to be judged and they just enjoy the moment, no matter what happens. And if you can't tell when someone else does it, well, you could ask them to do a particular sign before they do it, I think it's something that can come out great! I'd be so so happy to watch it, let me know, have a wonderful day!

Great info, Taren!!

Though I've not taken the opportunity to do one yet, I've paid attention long enough to see how it's already developed. The introduction of the specialist wetsuits is genius, but I do like the idea of the thrifty element to the rest of your kit (even drilling holes into their shoes), it really adds to the adventure nature. Need to get on the swimrun train as if I'm honest with myself, I suck on the bike so this might suit me better.

Love this idea

This is your best video since the 300 FTP series videos. I would have liked more footage of your actual swimrun and less dialogue.

Looks like a blast!! 3k swimming?! I’ll need to put some pool work in. Yikes!!!

ÖtillÖ litterally means "island to island". It's pronounced like three emphasises: the first and last "Ö" like the first syllable in "earn" and the middle one like the last syllable in until

I’m 60 this coming year and I’m gonna give it a go!

Only found out that this exists because I'm looking at wetsuits for triathlons. This sounds like an awesome sport. I live right next to a park/lake area, so it sounds only natural to try this out. Never would have even thought about going swimming with running shoes (but I have bouy bag that I sometimes use to bring my running shoes along).

Only problem with Roka wetsuit is it doesn’t have adequate flotation in thighs. Orca RS line have 9mm thighs to keep hips/shoes up.

Hey Taren I signed up for Atlanta 70.3 do you have any recommendations on where to stay

I think Swim Run has a real chance to become popular. There are so many ocean, lake and river parks across North America where these events could potentially become as popular as ultras have in the past 3 decades.

What type of shoe would you recommend?

I see you wearing the Torrens 2 from HOKA, we're they good during swimming and running?

Hi, I have done quite a lot of swimrun in the pass bevor I started with triathlon here in Germany and never seen someone toed to someone and just a few how used paddles and or pullbouys 🙈 is that a thing in Kanada/north America? That getting toed with a friend seems interesting and fun would like to try that out 😉

Taren if you are ever in the San Francisco Bay Area and want to have another fun swimrun let us know!

"Pull - boy"

I found if your paddles are not muchbigger than you hand you don’t blow you arms also if your shoes float you don’t need a pull boy less is best try with and without pullboy times were no different

Swimrun is so janky, but its hilarious absurdity actually looks kind of fun 🤣

Tethering is optional btw.

Thought it was Swedish special forces training regime?

ok però la corsa devi farla nell'acqua, sennò stai semplicemente facendo un Aquathlon ripetuto e senza cambiarti...

Could you imagine if they have a video game and run, he will do another video but he wiil be fat and playing pac-man? E-sport for next Olympic games.

You don’t need paddles for the sprint races. Timing difference is marginal.

Swimrun sounds pretty stupid. Could be lots of fun though!

Also did you wear a wetsuit