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The ÖtillÖ World Championships 2021

The End or Just a Beginning? If you have been following our blog you might be expecting the father-son swimrun odyssey to reach its glorious end. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. Max’s knee...

Meditations – Utö Take Two

The Old Man: At the two-year anniversary of the first race in our swimrun odyssey it is a nice time to reflect. We have had our ups and our downs – which include broken bones, strained tendons...

The Bloody Bar Keeps Moving!

For eight weeks leading to last Sunday, I took part in Whoop’s Project PR which was a recovery-based structured run training program for the 5000m distance. Whoop is a wrist-based sensor with a...

Nothing Great is Easy!

The ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Championship Course – Total Distance: 74680m. Trail Running: 65135m. Run Sections: 24. Swimming: 9545m. Swim Sections: 23. Longest Swim: 1750m. Longest Run: 19700m...

EYES ON THE PRIZE

THE OLD MAN: We made it! Perhaps not the way we planned – but the end justifies the means! Hvar and Borås have been moved to the Autumn and the Scilly canceled – which we will replace with...

Winter Interlude – Planning for 2020

Your goals should excite you a lot and scare you a little My day job is working as an advisor to business management around various important strategic IT themes. Over the years I have seen a pattern...

Malta – Race Report – ÖtillÖ World Series

The OLD MAN: The Saturday weather was great, 20 degrees in and out of the water. Annoyingly Google was pinging storm warnings to my phone, the calm wasn’t going to last. Luckily the high winds were...

1000 Lakes – Race Report – ÖtillÖ World Series

EVENT WEBSITE Running 34640m, Swimming 7560m, 11 runs, 10 swims and 22% swimming. The Old-Man: Event number three on our list was the 1000 Lakes World Series event which is a point to point race from...

ÖtillÖ Campaign Update – Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!

Three days after the Borås Swimrun I came off my road bike and fractured both my radius and my scaphoid. Nobody else’s fault, just late on a long hot training ride, lost concentration and screwed up...

Borås Swimrun – Race Report – ÖtillÖ Merit Race

Another  long day out! Team 110. Total distance: 34km; 29000mm running and 5050m swimming as 12 swims and 13 runs. Race Website The Boy: Almost 2 weeks had passed since the last conquest of...

Utö – Race Report – ÖtillÖ World Series

Sunday May 19th 2019 A long day out! Total distance: 40 300 m, Total running: 35 180 m, Total swimming: 5 120 m; 20 runs and 18 swims. Course Map Times & Distances Event Photos These events tend...

The ÖtillÖ Adventure – Part 2

Start of a New Journey – Max Jenkinson Short introduction: Most of you reading this will only know me by virtue of being Tom’s son. My name is Max and as you might expect by...

The ÖtillÖ Adventure – Part 1

ÖtillÖ – the Swimrun World Championships. Now that would be something!  A total of 10km open water swimming and 65km trail running. One of the toughest and most beautiful endurance challenges in...