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Practice + Pancakes: Harvard Men Sprint Relays, 100/50s on Threshold Wednesday

If you haven’t seen Dean Farris go 28.7 in a 75 free with fins yet, you should probably go watch it right now. This set off a slue of other athletes to do the same, including LSU’s Brooks Curry and Jack Jannasch and Drury’s Karol Ostrowski.

Here is the full practice from that day, which was a Wednesday in November, meaning threshold for the Harvard men. After a quick warmup, they split off into groups of 3 and did some fun relays where everyone swam a different leg (this is where the 75 with fins came in). Then they moved into 2 x 6-minute sets, which meant 100s @ 2:00 for some, 6×50 @ 1:00 for others, and 3×50 @ 2:00 for the speed guys.

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Maria
2 years ago

Amazing content!! Very insightful to see how they train. Do they happen to have a women’s team?

Big Mac #1
2 years ago

Honestly, a bit of an underwhelming practice and pancakes. Too long

PVSFree
2 years ago

So Dean didn’t know his 75 was for time… Is he gonna redo his 75 and go 26.high?

m1tchplease
2 years ago

Is that a digital record board on their pool deck? That’d be wild.

Steve Nolan
Reply to  m1tchplease
2 years ago

It was cheaper that way, the expense of updating it after every one of Dean’s swims was nearly going to bankrupt the school.

m1tchplease
Reply to  Steve Nolan
2 years ago

lol fair enough! It looks really cool!

Steve Nolan
2 years ago

EVERYONE, GIRD YOUR LOINS.

For it has posted. And it is good.

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