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Today I am doffing my armor and diving into vulnerable territory. All in the name of speaking to a question that will likely plague every swimrun duo who sticks with the sport for a race or two: In a sport that is built around the performance of a team, what happens when your swimrun partner is …
What happens when your swimrun partner is injured? Notes from the bench.Read More
One of the most unique aspects of swimrun is that you do it with a partner. Racing with a partner takes you outside of your own head, your individual triumphs and tribulations, and into a shared experience. When you share the experience with somebody else, it becomes emotional. Michael Lemmel (Co-founder of ÖTILLÖ) And while …
The Swimrun Partner: Through Sea and Forest ‘Til Finish Do We PartRead More
So, how is swimrun different from triathlon, you ask? I often find myself trying to explain swimrun to people who’ve never heard of the sport in a trailing description of details that are often quite perplexing to the listener: “You swim, run, swim, run…and you run in your wetsuit and swim in your running shoes…oh, …
You’ve made it! You’ve heard about this new amphibious sport and thought, “What the heck is this all about? Do people really run in a wetsuit? Tethered to another person? Swim in their shoes? You’re kidding, right?” Well, your curiosity, affinity for adventure with a dash of crazy, and a quick internet search have led …
The history of swimrun shares a line with many hairbrained adventure tales, and begins in 2002 with a drunken bet. Okay, so we haven’t verified whether the four Swedish friends were drunk, but the “Original 4” of swimrun (Anders Malm, Janne Lindberg, Matt and Jesper Andersson) were likely in a somewhat altered mental state to …
