Rasmus Lodenius
Welcome to episode thirty-nine of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!
On this week’s show we the Martin Scorsese of Swimrun hype films; the one and only Rasmus Lodenius. If you’ve ever been on YouTube at 2:30 am geeking out on Swimrun videos, there’s a good chance that you’ve been turned on to the sport by Rasmus and his team. We are super stoked for this interview and we’ll get to that later in the show.
Training Update
So we got back to training and had to hit the pause button yet again due to wildfires and poor air quality in Northern California. We are still going full steam ahead for Ödyssey Swimrun Austin on November 8, 2020, and managed to get some good Swimrun practices in before the smoke came back. We’re back to working out indoors until the skies clear…again.
Shout Outs
This week we’re shouting out Piet from The Netherlands or as it’s called in Spanish, Los Países Bajos. He’s a fan of the show and was cool enough to fill us in about a Swimrun event in the Netherlands that took place over the weekend that he participated in. Thanks for the support Piet!
Feats of Endurance Weekly Award
Our award this week goes out to the 2020 Mr. Löw Tide Böy Award Winner: Marcus Barton. He completed a 24-hour adventure race over the weekend. No big deal for him but it looked intense to us mere mortals.
Make sure to check out our Strava Club to be a part of the love/kudos fest!
This Week in Swimrun
We heard about a couple of Swimrun events this past weekend that looked pretty cool. (Programming Note: as more events start popping up, we’re going to have a harder time getting them all included in the show but we’ll do our best.)
Swimrun Sport Nederland took place on Saturday. (Thanks to Piet again for telling us about the event) This was the third year of the event and sold out with 175 participants. While the race didn’t have a lot of elevation on the course, it looked like a fun time was had by all with three distance options to accommodate different skill levels. We although think that their race tag line was pretty good: “you swim in your shoes on and run in your wetsuit.” That pretty much sums up the sport!
Epic Blue Swimrun Finale Ligure took place on Sunday. Located on the Italian Riviera on the Gulf of Genoa, Finale Ligure looked like an amazing place to host a race and the photos from the event didn’t disappoint and our bucket list of races to try just got longer.
In more of bummer news, ÖTILLÖ Utö was canceled during race week due to their permit being unexpectedly pulled. Michael and Mats were as frustrated as the rest of us with the news but, as usual, the Swimrun community came through to still make the weekend special. Our friends at Wild Swimrun had a bunch of ladies on the island on Saturday to casually follow the route and the good folks at Envol Coaching have a large group out on Sunday on the course. Finally, everyone was able to get into the action to support some great causes with Ark Sports’ Dark Swimrun virtual race.
We’re pretty sure that we may have missed some events. Send us an email at lowtideboyz@gmail.com and tip us off if there’s are a race that you are doing and we’ll do our best to include it.
LTBz Updates
Ödyssey Swimrun Austin is just about a month away so make sure that you use the code LOWTIDEBOYZ and save 25% on your entry and join us in Texas for some Swimrunning, cliff jumps, and other fun stuff.
Our friends at Precision Hydration have turned on our discount code again so make sure that you use the code LOWTIDEBOYZ to save 15% off your order. We swear by the stuff and don’t see that stopping anytime soon. If that wasn’t already awesome enough, PH has given our listeners a 15% off code for their The Science of Endurance Hydration Training Peaks online course. Use the code PODCAST15 and get your hydration education on! Finally, make sure to check out our interview with PH Co-founder Andy Blow to get your mind blown about proper hydration for Swimrun and life.
Our new swag store is up and running. Head over to our website to pick up a shirt and some stickers.
Interview
Now for this week’s interview with Rasmus Lodenius!
It was really great to sit down with him and learn about his journey as a filmmaker and how he got hooked up with ÖTILLÖ to work on their race films. It was especially cool to get to peek behind the curtain to see how these race hype films get made since for so many of us these films are our first introduction to the sport of Swimrun.
In the interview we chat about everything from his upbringing on the island of Utö, his experiences in film school, how he learned about Swimrun and ultimately started working with ÖTILLÖ, and finally his experience of his first Swimrun race as a participant at the 2020 ÖTILLÖ Final 15 event. We covered a lot of ground in this episode and really appreciated Rasmus taking the time to chat with us.
Check out these videos on YouTube to see some of Rasmus’s best work (as curated by Rasmus):
ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Cannes 2019 - The Force of Nature
ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Malta 2019 – The Breakwater
ÖTILLÖ The Swimrun World Championship 2019 - Speechless
ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Catalina 2020- Welcome to America
You can follow Rasmus on Instagram and on his YouTube channel.
That’s it for this week’s show. If you are enjoying the Löw Tide Böyz, please be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast player. You can find us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google Podcast. You can also follow our meme page on Instagram and on Twitter. Email us at lowtideboyz@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions, and/or meme suggestions. Finally, you can also support us on Patreon…if you feel so inclined.