Beginner’s Guide to Swimrun Races
Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast
Taren Gesell
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🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
SwimRun is an emerging endurance sport, where athletes race in pairs, tethered together, alternating between swimming and running (while wearing a wetsuit and running shoes the whole time!)
Nicolas is a SwimRun specialist and endurance coach, founding the Envol SwimRun team. On the podcast this week, Jamie and Nicholas discuss everything a beginner needs to know about SwimRun.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up Motivators, Taryn here. Today's podcast guest is Nicholas Ramirez. |
| 0:05.3 | Nicholas is a swim run athlete. He is one of the most decorated swim run athletes in the world. |
| 0:12.9 | And if you don't know what swim run is, well, you're not alone. Swim run is a very emerging sport, but a really cool sport. |
| 0:19.9 | Basically, it's going from one point to another, |
| 0:22.8 | might be a 15K total race course. It might be a 45 or 50K total race course, but in between |
| 0:30.0 | there are random distances of swims and random distances of runs. You go from swimming to |
| 0:36.3 | running to running to swimming. You swim in your |
| 0:39.2 | run shoes and you run in your swim run wetsuit. And I've done a swim run day with a pal, not a race, |
| 0:47.7 | but just a day where we went out and we went from one point to another, breaking it up into |
| 0:52.1 | swims and runs. And it was so much fun. This is a sport |
| 0:55.7 | that everyone should try. If you want to get away from doing nothing but structured training |
| 1:01.3 | all the time and you really just want to go on an adventure, swim run is super fun. Because it satisfies |
| 1:07.5 | that sense of adventure that we all want while sort of taking the absolute |
| 1:13.2 | competitive drive down a notch because it's so silly that you go from swimming to running |
| 1:19.5 | and running to swimming makes it so much more fun. In a lot of cases, most of the swim run races |
| 1:25.1 | are actually done with a partner as well where you're tethered to a partner |
| 1:28.4 | and that aspect of being in it together also makes it really fun now with swim run being very new |
| 1:36.2 | we wanted to get nicholas onto the podcast to talk about the basics of swim run what's the |
| 1:41.3 | difference between a triathlon or run training plan and what a swim run training plan would look like what's the gear you need for a swim run. What's the difference between a triathlon or a run training plan and what a swim |
| 1:45.4 | run training plan? What's the gear you need for a swim run training plan? How do you actually |
| 1:50.4 | get used to tethering off to somebody and how do you swim with somebody while you're tethered off? |
| 1:55.0 | And we got Nicholas on because, A, he's one of the most decorated swim run athletes in the world, |
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