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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Une équipe atypique

Une équipe atypique

Cette histoire est l’histoire d’un binôme pour le moins ….atypique ! Jeudi 23 Juin 2022, 9h, le téléphone sonne alors que je suis plongé dans les tracas quotidiens et classiques d’une journée de travail. À peine ai-je décroché que le ton joyeux de Pascale et la phrase...

Doing the Ötillö World Championships this year?

Doing the Ötillö World Championships this year?

If the answer is yes you are probably well into your training and preparations. Here is a video with Envol Swimrun's Head Coach and Ötillö veteran Nicolas Remires giving advice about the race and the preparations, together with one of the creators and race directors -...

A cold day with warm hearts

A cold day with warm hearts

Lene Sandvoll Stern DID finish the race! She did it well and was rewarded with a spot on the podium. Warming her face is her team mate, Åsa Larsson who unfortunately couldn't race with her this day (above image).   DNF - those three letters no athlete wants...

Fantastic Feminine Feat

Fantastic Feminine Feat

Winners in the women's category, third overall, only seconds from the second place. 9h 51min 42 sec - Team Envol HEAD Zoggs Desirée Sabina absolutely smashed it.  If you saw Desirée Andersson and Sabina Rapelli in the starting lineup with the start field of SWIMRUNMAN...

From nowhere to happiness

From nowhere to happiness

Always in gyms but never an athlete. I was always admiring and watching sports but never doing any. Always very active, and willing to do new things. Ι was participating in some 5k or 10k running races for fun in Athens but my secret desire and childhood dream was to...

Partners in swimrun and life

Partners in swimrun and life

It all started in February 2019, when I [Saby] was looking for a partner for the swimrun season. I got in contact with Nicolas, knowing that Team Envol was well-known in the world of swimrun and that surely he would be able to give me some advice or direct me to an...