Fabio Iskandarian of Hero Swimrun

<p>Welcome to episode sixty-one of the<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/"> Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>We’re super stoked about this week’s guest! We are headed to South America for the first time to check out the Swimrun scene in Brazil with Fabio Iskandarian. He’s the founder of Hero Swimrun and chief Swimrun Evangelist in the Rio de Janeiro area. It was great to interview him for the show and it really reaffirmed our theory that Swimrun is just a special sport that draws great people from all over the world to it. Fabio’s passion is a testament to that!</p><p>More on this interview later in the show but first...Obrigado a todos do Brasil por ouvirem este podcast.</p><p><strong>Shoutouts</strong></p><p>This week we’ve got dual shoutouts to our two latest Patrons on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lowtideboyz">Patreon</a>: Caleb Baity from North Carolina and Jason Hodgetts from the U.K. We really appreciate your support of the show and helping us fund our outsized international sticker mailing budget.</p><p><strong>Adventure Time/Training Updates</strong></p><p>The unstructured training continues...except in the pool. We are both officially being coached in the pool by <a href="https://www.tower26.com/">Tower26</a> and really can’t speak highly enough about Gerry, Jim, Megan, and the rest of the crew over there. We decided that we wanted to really work on our swim fitness going into this year’s race season and well, we’re certainly doing that. </p><p>Make sure to check out our two episodes with Tower26 coaches (<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/gerry-rodrigues-amp-emma-kate-lidbury">Episode 32</a> with Gerry Rodrigues and Emma-Kate Lidbury and <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/ama-1-with-tower-26-coaches-megan-and-jim">Episode 42</a> with Megan Meelgard and Jim Lubinski) to glean some swimming wisdom from them.</p><p><strong>Feats of Endurance</strong></p><p>This week’s winner is Bart Czarnecki from Poland. He’s been posting 3-minute ice bath swims and adding a photo with a smile.