Jason Magness, Bend Racing

<p>Welcome to episode 160 of the<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/"> Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>On this week’s show we have an exclusive first look at the new <a href="https://www.bendracing.com/sunriver-swim-run-2023">Sunriver</a> and <a href="https://www.bendracing.com/elk-lake-swim-run-2023">Elk Lake</a> Swimruns happening this year in Bend, Oregon with race director and adventure racing legend, Jason Magness of <a href="https://www.bendracing.com/">Bend Racing</a>. This episode isn’t a course preview but we get into all the cool details that will make any Swimrunner check to see what flights are looking like after this interview.</p><p>But first…</p><p>Training Update</p><p>If it wasn’t official before this show, it is now! Our first race of the season will be Sunriver Swimrun on May 7th. Our training will start ramping up accordingly but for now it’s all about building that base.</p><p>Shoutout</p><p>Our shoutout this week goes out to our newest patron on Patreon, Greg. He is racing <a href="https://www.trisignup.com/Race/NC/Nebo/SwimRunNCLakeJames">Swimrun Lake James</a> in a few months and <a href="https://otilloswimrun.com/race/otillo-swimrun-uto/">ÖTILLÖ Utö</a> a few months after that. Happy training and thanks so much for the support!</p><p><strong>Wisdom Nugget of the Week</strong></p><p>New segment alert!!!</p><p>(Long story, short: In 2014, Mark Allen (6x Ironman World Champion) wrote a book called The Art of Competition where we published a ton of inspirational quotes coupled with amazing photography. My son recently found this book and has asked us to read it to him. My wife thinks that the quotes read like endurance fortune cookies and here we are. We’ll be sharing one each week, hope you find them thought provoking and not totally cheesy.)</p><p>“Beating an opponent at their game is tough; Beating them at yours is not.”</p><p><strong>Feats of Endurance</strong></p><p>This week’s winner is our friend Miriam. She is half of Team PB and Bananas and is training for her first maratho