Claudia Glass, Co-Founder of Swijin

<p>Welcome to episode 180 of the<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/"> Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>We’ve got an inspiring episode for everyone this week. We are joined by Claudia Glass,  the co-founder of <a href="https://swijin.com/en-us">Swijin</a>, to chat about her new company that is taking the Swimrun world by storm. But that’s not even the best part! Claudia had a dream, chased it, and is achieving it while doing right by everyone that is involved in it. It’s truly a great story and we can’t wait to share it with all of you!</p><p>But first…</p><p>Training Update</p><p>The Swimrun rust has been busted. Over the weekend we scoped out a new training ground thanks to a mutual friend that gave us access to her dock. It was great to get Swimrunning again and surprisingly there wasn’t that much rust to bust so that’s encouraging as we barrel towards <a href="https://www.odysseyswimrun.com/casco">Ödyssey Swimrun Casco Bay</a> on July 9th.</p><p>Shoutout</p><p>This week’s shoutout goes to everyone that attended the <a href="https://www.akamustard.events/nene-park-peterborough-swimrun">Nene Park Swimrun Festival</a> this past weekend put on by our friends at As Keen As Mustard events. We heard all about how great the vibes were by our long time friends Bill and Chrissy Lankford, a.k.a. <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/team-mr-and-mrs-b">Team Mr. and Mrs. B</a>. They mentioned how it was a very different crowd to the ÖTILLÖ World series with race distances from 5km up to 39km with a lot of people just trying the sport out for the time or building up their skill sets.</p><p><br /> </p><p>Even though it's on the edge of Peterborough, the courses take you into the countryside and mostly use the river Nene which has some tricky entrances and exits and is a challenging swim upstream. Running is on footpaths, fields and graded paths. We rated the courses highly.</p><p>A ringing endorsement in our book!</p><p>Wisdom Nugget of the Week</p><p>When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no exper