Ödyssey Swimrun Austin 2021 Race Report

<p>Welcome to episode ninety-seven of the<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/"> Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>We’ve got our last race report for 2021 to share with everyone this week! We just got back from the Lone Star state after racing <a href="https://www.odysseyswimrun.com/austin">Ödyssey Swimrun Austin</a> Long Course on November 7th and we’re super stoked to share what was a great weekend for Swimrunning. (Spoiler Alert: We had our best race to date!)</p><p><strong>Initial Thoughts</strong></p><p>There were a lot of thoughts going into race weekend. It was unexpectedly our last race of the year after <a href="https://otilloswimrun.com/race_category/catalina/">ÖTILLÖ Catalina</a> was postponed to March 2022. It was the first time that we would be racing the same course after having raced the inaugural Ödyssey Swimrun Austin in 2020. Being able to have an “apples to apples” comparison was definitely intriguing for us given how much improvement we had seen from race to race this year.</p><p>With all this in mind, we were super stoked to go back to Pace Bend Park and spend some quality time with our Swimrun Community.</p><p><strong>LTBz Shakeout Swimrun (Austin Edition)</strong></p><p>It was great to be back in Pace Bend and get there early enough to host a Shakeout Swimrun on Saturday for everyone that was already in town. Over 35 people showed up and we had a ton of fun Swimrunning part of the course and taking a bunch of jumps at the cliff jump area. We ended the shakeout with some <a href="https://visitsweden.com/what-to-do/food-drink/swedish-kitchen/all-about-swedish-fika/">fika</a> (minus the coffee) in honor of <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/team-adorkable">Team Adorkable</a> that was racing in North Carolina the same weekend.</p><p><strong>Race Day</strong></p><p>It was cold and super foggy on race morning. So foggy that Ödyssey made the very prudent call to push the start time for the long course from 7:00am to 7:45am. Once the race started we knew that we were going to have a go