Löw Tide Böyz, a Swimrun Podcast

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Germany

Swimrun in Nürnberg

Name: Florian G.

City, State, and County for your training course: Nürnberg

Give us a brief description of the course and what you like about it.: Urban Swimrunning in the city of Nürnberg

Any important details that swimrunners should know about?: SwimRunning in the Citycenter is obviously the best thing you can do to sightsee a new town

What is the total distance of your course?: 15 K

Share with us any Strava, Garmin Connect or other gps links of your course: The planed tour is on komoot 
https://www.komoot.de/tour/r230560934?ref=atd

Part of it is on Strava:
https://strava.app.link/lNblMLrzA8

Please include anything else that we forgot to ask: This will be a tremendous tour, I have to do it Asap... 
Be aware of the river, it's not really dangerous because it's rover speed is quite low...
Swimming in the river and lakes is not really allowed, but as we won't expect thousands of swimrunners , nobody will care...


Swimrun in Speyer

Name: Tobias R

City, State, and County for your training course: Speyer, Germany

Give us a brief description of the course and what you like about it.: It’s a flat one-way swimrun course with 9 swim and 10 run segments, totaling 23km run and 4km swim, starting at the historic dome of Speyer and from there north through all lakes along the route. The first swim segment goes through the yacht harbor Speyer, then directly followed by a swimming segment in the Rhine, Germanies largest river with a flow of up to 10m/sec. Each of the lakes is very unique. Between the lakes lots of trail running through forests and fields. The finish is at the train station Limburgerhof with a direct rail connection back to Speyer. Along the course are >10+ beer gardens.🍺

Any important details that swimrunners should know about?: Trin ticket back to Speyer is approx 4 Euros.

What is the total distance of your course?: 24k run plus 4k swim

Share with us any Strava, Garmin Connect or other gps links of your course: https://www.komoot.de/tour/r245683926?ref=atd

Please include anything else that we forgot to ask: I'm happy to guide you if time allows.