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Our last swimrun of the 2022 swimrun season! This was both sad and happy in equal parts. It's been a long season. We're tired. We need some downtime. But we also love swimrun so much, we're going to miss it during the off season. This is the 3rd year  Odyssey has held Swimrun Austin, but only the second year we've been able to do it. Last year we had already paid for  Swimrun NC  2020, and that race was deferred to  2021 on the same date as Swimrun Austin . Fortunately this year NC  was moved back to its earlier date, and so we were able to do both! I loved having the opportunity to show off some of the fun locations and foods that Austin has to offer, though it's a lot of pressure when it's your hometown, so you find yourself in charge of a lot more things! There were enough people in town Friday morning that we had a pre-shakeout shakeout swim+run at Barton Springs! Even though the startline is only an hour drive from my house, we decided to rent an airbnb ...

We love this race, and signed up for it in January, before we knew whether we were going to qualify for  ÖTILLÖ World Champs . Once we were invited to WC, and accepted, that was our sole focus for months, with swimming and running taking over our lives. Then the race happened. And then a week of vacation in the Arctic Circle . And then finally back home, where we had to go back to the real world, and figure out what we'd been neglecting this year. And we remembered that we still had two races left in 2022! Commemorative  ÖTILLÖ tattoos. Real ones this time, to replace the temporary ones we raced with. The training for WC was intense, and we absolutely needed a break after the race. We didn't stop running and swimming, but the volume in Training Peaks went way down, some runs were replaced by strength workouts, and if we didn't feel like doing a workout.. we didn't. Which means we rolled up to the start line of Swimrun NC having no idea how prepared we really were. We h...