Team #batmansparents

<p>Welcome to episode 137 of the<a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/"> Löw Tide Böyz - A Swimrun Podcast!</a></p><p>Joining us on the show this week is the wife and husband duo of Liz and Jacob Gilden, A.K.A. Team #batmansparents. They are a power couple out of Virginia and are headed to Sweden for their first <a href="https://otilloswimrun.com/race/otillo-swimrun-world-championship/">ÖTILLÖ, The Swimrun World Championship</a>. This was a really fun conversation and we’re stoked to share it with you. </p><p>But first...</p><p><strong>Training Update</strong></p><p>We got in another solid week of training. We had some interesting scheduling challenges though. We ended up doing our Saturday-scheduled mondo Swimrun practice on Friday afternoon so Chris could prepare for his son’s 3rd birthday party. We have one more biggish week of training and then we’re two weeks away from ÖTILLÖ.</p><p><strong>Shoutouts</strong></p><p>We’ve got a mondo shouting out to give this week to the awesome crew at <a href="https://traversefitness.com/">Traverse Fitness</a> in Denver Colorado: Rob, Sara, Kellyn, Jane, Kate, Timmy, Sarah and Ben, Josh, Chris, Avery and Vivian. Rob Dm’d us a few months back and told us that he was bringing a big crew of people to <a href="https://www.odysseyswimrun.com/orcas">Ödyssey Swimrun Orcas Island</a> to do their first Swimrun. All in all, 22 athletes are making their way to Orcas Island. Awesome…we know! Anyway, we offered to do a Zoom call with them to answer any questions that they might have and we had that call this past weekend. We had a ton of fun chatting with them and we are so stoked for their adventure. They will all do great and we can’t wait for the post-race Zoom call to get all the race reports from them!</p><p><strong>Feats of Endurance</strong></p><p>This week’s winner is Tobias Rop of <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/podcast/team-max-mockermann">Team Max Mockermann</a>. Life was imitating “art” when he posted a Swimrun workout from Bled, Slovenia where there’s a baller lake with a castl