When I first heard about the ÖTILLÖ Sprint races, I didn’t think it was a good fit for me. First, sprint in my mind translates to a fast short race. Second, I thought the Sprint swimruns were an [...]
It has been a year in which weather has been very prominent at each race. In Hvar it was the wind and the currents, at Utö it was the fear of the cold water, at the Isles of Scilly it was the [...]
Maja Tesch is a 28-year-old who wasn’t interested in sports until her twenties, but during the last few years has been making up for lost time. This summer, together with Christofer Johansson, [...]
When you have weather conditions like at ÖTILLÖ WC this year, your logistic plans are totally screwed. So you adapt to nature and improvise, using the experience you’ve gained from 8 years of [...]
World Champions 2015 and power couple Staffan Björklund and Marika Wagner had a tough last year but came back strong in 2017 to win overall the Rockman swimrun in Norway. Then in September at the [...]
Magnus Ormestad started Husky Podcast five years ago with a focus on the outdoors. He’s now launched Husky International in English, which includes his latest interview with ultra-endurance [...]
It all started one Saturday morning in 2012, when Chris Floden, Chairman of HEAD SWIMMING Nordic CBM, based in Nacka, Sweden, called his HEAD colleague Stefan Sponer to chat about the possibility [...]
In June 2017, Sylvain Scoccia, 55, and friends Julien Galmach Sophie and Hervé Lancien embarked upon a 240 km swimrun between Théoule sur Mer and Marseille in France, carrying everything on their [...]
Dr Simon Donato started the ÖTILLÖ merit race Amphibious Challenge swimrun a few years ago. But in his day job, Adventure Science, the Canadian pairs super fit adventure athletes with researchers [...]
When deciding where to host Western Australia’s inaugural Swimrun, we wanted a place that captures the sport’s core elements, a wild but beautiful environment where people could challenge [...]
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