Ödyssey Swimrun Austin Race Report

<p>Welcome to episode forty-five of the <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/">Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>We’ve got a special episode this week. We just finished racing <a href="https://www.odysseyswimrun.com/austin">Ödyssey Swimrun Austin</a> on Sunday, November 8th and we’ll be sharing our race report from our weekend in Texas. We were super stoked to be able to race and hope that you enjoy our thoughts on how that whole thing went. (Spoiler alert: Stoke level is still super high!)</p><p><strong>Initial Thoughts</strong></p><p>It was a stressful week with the election, COVID, travel, and a race on the horizon. We felt better once we got to Texas and we were really happy with our performance on race day. Sure, we could have trained harder…but we probably would be saying that regardless of how hard we trained. Regardless of our level of fitness, we managed to put together a strong performance and that only a small part of what was an amazing weekend.</p><p><strong>Getting to Texas/Pre-race Meeting</strong></p><p>Getting to Pace Bend Park from AUS was pretty easy (Chipper picked Chris up from the airport on Saturday afternoon) and we managed to show up only slightly late to the mandatory pre-race meeting.</p><p>Shout outs to folks that we connected with this weekend: (We’re really sorry if we missed anyone)</p><p>Drew and Michael</p><p>Brooke and Samantha</p><p>Adrian</p><p>Trevor AKA The Copper Paladin</p><p>Trista and Amy (Who brought us a giant donut from <a href="https://roundrockdonuts.com/">Round Rock Donuts</a>)</p><p>Mel</p><p>Jenny</p><p>Bob</p><p>Rick (from Florida)</p><p>Chase</p><p>Chris</p><p>Matt</p><p>Melissa</p><p>Gemma</p><p>Kristen (RD at <a href="https://www.trisignup.com/Race/NC/Nebo/SwimRunNCLakeJames">Swimrun Lake James</a> in April 2021)</p><p>Lee Green LIKE THE COLOR (Chris’s new bestie)</p><p>The entire Odyssey team!</p><p>It was also great to see previous guests of the show as well:</p><p>Bronwen and Greg AKA <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/boston-wet-sox">The Bosto