Ödyssey Swimrun Orcas Island Race Report

<p>Welcome to episode ninety-one of the<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/"> Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>We’ve got a special episode for everyone this week! We just got back from the “PNW” after racing <a href="https://www.odysseyswimrun.com/orcas">Ödyssey Swimrun’s Orcas Island</a> Long Course on September 26th and we’ve got one hell of a race report to share chronicling all the highs and lows and highs of us racing this epic Swimrun.</p><p><strong>Initial Thoughts</strong></p><p>We’ve been looking forward to racing Orcas Island since it was first announced four years ago and we were finally going to take it on and we were super stoked to take on the challenge.</p><p><strong>Orcas Island was Pretty Cool</strong></p><p>We rented an awesome house that was literally across the street from the start/finish line and we brought with us an LTBz flag that we had made for the occasion and must have been seen by almost every participant since they ran by our house on the way to the finish line.</p><p>We co-hosted a shakeout Swimrun on the Saturday before the race and it was awesome to see so many people come out for that. We basically just ran around Cascade Lake to do a couple of swims and play at the cliff jump section of the run course. It was super fun on a beautiful day. All the credit for the shakeout goes to Trista and Amy of <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/team-adorkable">Team Adorkable</a> for coming up with the idea, getting the fika, and just being awesome ambassadors for the sport. The event was co-sponsored by <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/christofer-sundberg-cofounder-ark-sports">Ark Sports</a>, <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/wild-swimrun">Wild Swimrun</a>, and Ödyssey.  </p><p><strong>Race Day</strong></p><p>The race was everything that we had hoped it would be: beautiful and brutal. We wouldn’t say that we set the course on fire but we kept moving forward and dug deep to get through the course. </p><p>We finished the race in 6:33 which was good enough for 4th Pl