Jonas Colting

<p>Welcome to episode eleven of the <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/">Low Tide Boyz, a Swimrun Podcast</a>!</p><p>On this week’s show we chat with the legendary Jonas Colting. We were pretty star struck when we interviewed him while we were in Catalina for <a href="https://otilloswimrun.com/races/catalina/">Ötillö</a> but he was an awesome guest and we think that you’ll really enjoy the interview. More on this interview later in the show.</p><p>Our top story this week, and pretty much the top story in the world is COVID-19. In the Bay Area, where we live, we’ve been instructed to shelter-in-place for the next three weeks and local gyms and pools have closed. In addition, a bunch of races have been getting canceled around the world. While this is always a huge letdown, be kind to your race directors and listen to the medical and public health experts and basically do what they say. We will get through this together.</p><p>In other news, we’ve officially launched our <a href="https://teespring.com/stores/low-tide-boyz">collab shirt</a> fundraiser for the WILD Youth Initiative created by <a href="https://www.wildwomenswimrun.com/">WILD Swimrun</a>. All proceeds from this apparel will go towards providing scholarships to help girls attend the WILD Swimrun camps. Have enough shirts (and/or pillows)? Head over to <a href="https://lowtideboyz.com/">lowtideboyz.com</a> to donate to the WILD Youth Initiative.</p><p>Let me just start by saying that our guest today has his own <a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Colting">Wikipedia</a> page. We are honored and humbled to have had the one and only Jonas Colting on the show today.</p><p>Jonas has won six World and European medals in triathlon and has been competing in the sport since 1991. He won the Ultraman World Championships in Hawaii twice. (For those that don’t know what that’s a 320 miles [515 kilometer for our metric system fans] three-day competition.) He’s also won the Ötillö world championship three times and is the only person who has done the race every