Marathon and Swimrun

Envol Swimrun is excited to announce that in 2025, we are expanding our swimrun-specific training offerings to include a Startline Ready training group aimed at chasing big PBs in the marathon! We already have the general training plans for only trail running or open...

Come (ultra) swim with us!

Team Envol is about swimrun, right? Yes. However, we do have members whose focus lies elsewhere. To be a swimrunner you need to be a trail runner and an open water swimmer. Our community and our coaches include people with a stronger love for just "The Big Blue" ,...

Swimrun makes me feel alive

This is the story of Anne Bardon. She thought she was to old to get into a new sport at the age of 50. Today she knows how wrong she was! How did you find swimrun? By chance! I was following the famous French coach Lucile Woodward through her sports programs online....

It took six years

The story of Sabina and Alexis It’s been a six years long journey, but this year, both Sabina Rapelli and her boyfriend Alexis Charrier reached the goal of becoming the World Champions of swimrun. Sabina in a team with Desirée Andersson and Alexis with Matthieu...

Americas original swimrun – Team Envol style!

Text: Trista Mennen  Photos: Ötillö and private Casco Bay, Maine was the first swimrun race in the USA. It is still going strong and on August 11 Team Envol, "The Blue Nation" was well represented! The weekend was kicked off with a pre-race clinic Saturday morning for...

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This is how we train

This is how we train

Written by coach Tom Jenkinson The Envol Training System provides an entry point regardless of how much you want to train and where you're starting from. The system will support you to be the best you can be. General Plans and Race Specific Plans There are two types...

Ultraswim 33.3km Montenegro 2023 – An Adventure Swim Race

Ultraswim 33.3km Montenegro 2023 – An Adventure Swim Race

Written by coach Tom Jenkinson What a place, what an adventure, what a race! I had heard of the first test format race that took place in 2022. I was contacted by an old friend that I had worked with on a river team in France summer 1990 - I hadn’t seen him since. He...

Your Envol Swimrun options

Your Envol Swimrun options

Do you want to get serious about your swimrun? Or are you just starting and realise that a bit of structure will help you improve quicker? Guess what, we even have plans for the runners and long distance swimmers out there, not yet ready to take the step into the...

Alexis Kardes – swimrunner AND triathlete

Alexis Kardes – swimrunner AND triathlete

Alexis Kardes is part of the core coaching crew at Envol Swimrun. He is the one putting the running sessions into the weekly training plans for Team Envol. He was the best male Team Envol performer at Ötillö World Championships this year. He might be a a top...

A better GPS watch for swimrun

A better GPS watch for swimrun

Eliud Kipchoge, Kilian Jornet and now Team Envol! COROS go with the winners! The truth is that they are genuinely interested in swimrun and to become the gps watch of choice for swimrunners. And this is where we come in. We started by letting three swimrunners -...

Be as ready as you can be

Be as ready as you can be

Ötillö Swimrun World Championships probably won't go exactly as planned. No matter how well prepared you are or how many times you've done it. It's just that type of race. What you can do is train your body, study the course and prepare mentally to take a few hits...