2022 World Champions: Team Ark Swimrun Hugo and Max

<p>Welcome to episode 157 of the<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/"> Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>Happy New Year everyone! In our annual tradition of setting the bar way too high for ourselves, we have a great show lined up to kick off 2023. Joining us this week are the 2022 World Champions and the only Men’s team to go undefeated in every event of the <a href="https://otilloswimrun.com/">ÖTILLÖ World Series</a>. Of course we are talking about none other than <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/team-ark-swimrun-france">Hugo Tormento</a> and <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/max-andersson">Max Andersson</a>, A.K.A., Team Ark Swimrun Hugo and Max. This was a super fun conversation and we can’t wait to share it with all of you.</p><p>But first…</p><p>Training Update</p><p>We’re still in off-season mode but our race calendar is starting to come together and it looks like our first Swimrun event will be in May at Bend Racing’s new <a href="https://www.bendracing.com/sunriver-swim-run-2023">Sunriver Swimrun</a> in Bend, Oregon.</p><p>Shoutouts</p><p>In our <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/gear-of-the-year-awards-wthe-swimrun-labs">Gear of the Year Awards episode</a> with the Swimrun Labs we put out a call for gear ideas that don’t exist yet and we got some awesome responses. We will save the details for the next edition of Gear Talk but we wanted to shoutout some of the folks that had great/creative/violative of the laws of physics/genius ideas. </p><p>In no particular order: shoutouts to Katie, Pepe, Brendan, Henrik (a.k.a. Swimrun Pappa), Naomi, and Matt.</p><p>Feats of Endurance</p><p>This week’s Feats of Endurance winner is Vlad Caireac. He posted a workout from his native <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova">Moldova</a>. He is our first Strava Club member from this Eastern European country and we’re here for it! Thanks for joining the club.</p><p>Make sure to sign up for our LTBz <a href="https://www.strava.com/clubs/lowtideboyz">Strava Club</a> (which just passed 500