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...

If it was easy everyone would do it

No one said Rockman Swimrun would be easy. Nicolas knew from experience. Richard could only imagine. Coming from Tahiti he wanted a solid swimrun adventure in Scandinavia. Thats what he got. Watch this short documentary and take part of their journey.  

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3.2 million deaths per year

3.2 million deaths per year

So what can we do? Some of need to find new ways to exercice, some of us need to start exerciseing! We all need to move! For many uf us our mental health is also depending on it. Some say the sofa is “our battlefield”. We say i’ts our training shoes. Every sweaty t-shirt, every sore muscle, every lungful of fresh air is a victory.

This is the season of “buying”. We buy gifts, we buy stuff (because it’s on sale or we think we deserve it) and we buy food in a way that tips the scale of distrubution even further. We can only recomend you to invest in something that is good for you and also helps save the world. Physical activity. It is also the season of giving. A box of choclate might be nice to recive. Physical activity is better – and it shows you really care!

Hats off, chapeau och hatten av!

Hats off, chapeau och hatten av!

One expression in three languages for ÖtillÖ for making the races in Cannes happen. Hard work and a bit off luck allowed a bunch of happy swimrunners to once again pull on a race bib. After succsessefully jumping through every Covid-19 hoop out there I heard that for...

SUMMARISE SWIMRUNMAN LAFFREY

SUMMARISE SWIMRUNMAN LAFFREY

What a joy to attend a swimrun event again! This weekend was scheduled the SwimrunRun series by HEAD events at the large lake of Laffrey, south of Grenoble. An exceptional start list. Team ENVOL was strongly represented with 10 teams (9 in the Vertical format and 1 in the Classic)

Next race for Team Envol SWIMRUNMAN LAFFREY

Next race for Team Envol SWIMRUNMAN LAFFREY

Sebastien Bzinkiewicz (finished 5th in the race 2019), gives us his description of the course and his advice.
The Vertikal Ötillö Merit race starts at the same time as the Classic since it is the same course with the VK at the end (and the swimming preceding the VK of 2500m).

Mountain memories

Mountain memories

For some it went exactly as planned. For others not at all. Swimrun can be a bit like life in general. Unfair, hard and fantastic!  Nicolas - Did you realise the race was over when you fell? Was it hard to tell your partner? How do you feel now? After a first tough...