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 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
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
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...
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?
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
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
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
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
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...