Löw Tide Böyz Ötillö Catalina Race Report

<p>Welcome to episode eight of the Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!</p><p>This week’s show is all about <a href="https://otilloswimrun.com/races/catalina/">Ötillö Catalina</a> that happened this past weekend (Feb. 29-Mar. 1).</p><p>We have something special this week and have two parts to this episode. The first part will be the Low Tide Boyz report and the second part will be the race report from a Swedish Team, Team ARKsouls Addnature, that finished in second place female division. </p><p>So here we go! We had an amazing and busy weekend scheduled at Catalina. We were almost journalists. We recorded 4 great interviews that we will be releasing in the coming weeks. We met some great people, made new friends, connected faces to names and just had an amazing time. It’s hard to overstate how surreal it was to get so much positive feedback for the podcast and memes. It all started on the ferry ride to Catalina from Long Beach and really didn’t stop until we left. We tried to mention all the people that we connected with while we were there but we’re sure that we missed a bunch of folks. Overall, it was an amazing weekend and we can’t wait to back next year.</p><p>Episode 8: The Löw Tide Böyz Ötillö Catalina Race Report</p><p>We thought it would be helpful for folks that are thinking about doing the race next year to give a play by play of the World Series distance (31k or running and 7.7k of swimming) race. The course was very difficult and pretty much everything that you’d want in a swimrun race and nothing that you could find in a triathlon.</p><p>Leg 1:  Two Harbors to Isthmus Harbor Beach (2.3 miles or 3.7 kilometers)</p><p>This leg was a pretty hilly run right off of the bat.</p><p>Leg 2:  Isthmus Harbor Beach to Big Fisherman Cove (1640 yards or 1500 meters) </p><p>Nothing too tough about this. It definitely felt nice to get in the water after cooking on the run with the wetsuits on.  </p><p>Leg 3:  Big Fisherman Cove to Ballast Point Beach (2.9m or 4.8k)</p><p>This run was pretty straight forward. A little b