Ödyssey Swimrun Austin Course Preview: Addendum

<p>Welcome to this bonus episode of the <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/">Löw Tide Böyz, a Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>A few weeks ago, we dropped our deep dive course preview of the <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/odyssey-swimrun-austin-course-preview">Ödyssey Swimrun Austin</a> race coming up on November 8th. That episode has been listened to over 500 times and it appears that folks are getting a lot of value from it…which we love. </p><p>Given that this is a first-year race, there are a lot of gaps in our review. Fortuitously, Ödyssey put together a course recon training day at Pace Bend Park this past weekend and one of our <a href="https://www.strava.com/clubs/lowtideboyz">Strava Club</a> members, Adrian Cameron, was on the scene and brought back some great intel that he shared with the club. The intel was so great that we thought that we should produce a quick addendum to the Course Preview episode and get Adrian on to share his insight with everybody.</p><p>So without further ado, we welcome Adrian to the show and get right to it!</p><p><strong>Ride’em Cowboy AGAIN! (Updates to our Short and Long Course Leg Breakdowns)</strong></p><p>As a refresher, Swimrun Austin offers two distance options: short course (total distance 8.96 miles; total run 7.04 miles; total swim 3396 yards/1.92 miles) and long course (total distance 16.42 miles; total run 13.04 miles; total swim 6036 yards/3.38 miles). Both courses offer solo and team divisions. You can check out the detailed map for both courses <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ca030469b7d153f6cf6db2b/t/5f5ad1c3f5b9286681cb8dd7/1599787472475/OdysseeyAustin2020CourseMap.pdf">here</a>.</p><p>The Ödyssey course recon training day didn’t cover the entire course but there were a lot of additions that we were able to make to our leg by leg breakdown of the course.</p><p><strong>Ödyssey Swimrun Austin Short Course Annotated Leg Breakdown:</strong></p><p>Run 1 - 2.11 miles (Flat run)</p><p>Swim 1 - 663 yards (Swimming with the current)</p><p>Run 2 - 1.