Erika Rosenbaum

<p> </p><p>Welcome to episode twenty-two of the <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/">Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>On this week’s show we have Erika Rosenbaum. She’s a key historical figure in the sport of Swimrun with two claims to fame: she coined the word swimrun and produced the first swimrun event (<a href="http://www.swimrun.se/">Swimrun Hellas</a>) that wasn’t Ötillö in 2012. She’s an amazing human being and we really enjoyed chatting with her. </p><p>We wanted to give a shout out this week to Iain from the UK. He’s given us great feedback on the show and explained the UK Swimrun scene to us. There are certainly some events that we’ll want to check out there in the future. Thanks for taking the time to write us Iain!</p><p>We also just dropped another bonus <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/gear-reviews">swimrun gear</a> review episode. We reviewed the <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/gear-reviews/ark-sports-keel-swimrun-pull-buoy-review">ARK Keel swimrun pull buoy</a>. </p><p>Now for this week’s interview. After starting a family, Erika started running in 2007 to get back into shape. She started running and it turns out that she was good at it. She then turned to triathlon and raced her first Ironman distance event in 2010 after mastering the Olympic distance. (She has since raced 8 Ironman distance events) She’s a running coach</p><p>She raced her first swimrun race in 2011: Ötillö (The only swimrun event in the world.) And she just loved that race! She came home after a <a href="https://otilloswimrun.com/results/otillo-swimrun-world-championship-results/#2011">3rd</a> podium finish thinking of how this activity has to be available to all people, not only the long-distance athletes. So she said that this has to be a sport and it’s going be called “Swimrun.” (She has since raced the World Championship 5 times and finished third place three times!)</p><p>First, she thought the sound of the word Swimrun was really corny, but every word she came up with was corny so she said Swimrun 100 times to h