Helen Wikmar

<p>Welcome to episode forty-nine of the<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/"> Low Tide Boyz - A Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>In this week’s episode, we have a long-time friend of the show who we were lucky enough to meet in Catalina: Helen Wikmar. She was a previous guest way back on<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/team-arksouls-addnature-till-catalina-race-report"> Episode 9</a> of the podcast and then again on our ÖTILLÖ Engadin Course Preview episode. It was great to have her back on the show to talk about her story and how she’s perpetually building community in her hometown of<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg"> Gothenburg, Sweden</a>. </p><p>More on this later in the show.</p><p><strong>Adventure Time!</strong></p><p>With COVID restrictions about to be reinstituted in Northern California, we are a bit worried that state parks will be officially “closed.” Chris has come up with a rough map for the first test exploration at Lake Sonoma and hopefully, we will be able to get out there and see what happens.</p><p><strong>Shoutouts</strong></p><p>This week we’re shouting out Joseph Dickinson. He’s been a listener of the show for a while and he’s always been great about giving us feedback which we really appreciate. We hope to see you out a race in 2021.</p><p><strong>This Week in Swimrun (Powered by</strong><a href="https://raceid.com/en/"><strong> Raceid.com</strong></a><strong>)</strong></p><p>We didn’t hear about any new events taking place this past week other than another cold day at the Hellas Frostbite Swimrun. It doesn’t look like it was any warmer this week.</p><p>In other news, if you’re interested in checking out Finland and score some ÖTILLÖ merit points in the process, the<a href="https://raceid.com/en/races/7386/about"> Folkhälsan Swimrun</a> just opened registration (on Raceid.com) for next year’s event to be held on September 18, 2021. The race looks dope with three distances available and team and solo categories for those interested in that sort of thing.</p><p>Our friends<a hr