Practice + Pancakes: Texas Men, Dean Farris Tackle Fast Friday (Video)

SwimSwam wants to give you an inside look at what a normal day-in-the-life looks like for any given swimmer, and how that differs from team to team or city to city. We send our head of production, Coleman Hodges, to be a fly on the wall at practice, then relay what he discovered back to you over pancakes. Or at least breakfast.

It’s the heart of long course season. Teams are training hard and loading up on their swimmers. What better time to go and see what the 4-time reigning NCAA champs are up to?

On this particular Friday, the Texas men were going off the blocks. And they weren’t alone either. As reported last month, Dean Farris is in Austin getting some long course work in to prepare for nationals. Hawaiian swimmer Metin Aydin was also in town for the same reason. Madisyn Cox was swimming with the guys today. What I’m trying to say is that you had training partners galore.

There were 3 main sets going on from one end of the pool to the other:

  1. IM group threw on suits and went 3-4 150’s OTB, varying from all 1 stroke to 1 IM, 1 all back, 1 all breast and 1 all free.
  2. The distance guys suited up and went 8×100 @ 1:30, hold 400 pace.
  3. The more speed oriented workout was 3x (3×50) where you were swimming a broken 100. On the first 50 you swam 40 fast, and the last 2 you swam 30 fast. The coaches gave times on all 3 efforts and you added them up. Some of the guys put on suits, some did not.

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mexicanswimmer
6 years ago

What times were the broken 100s on?

R&R
6 years ago

Andrew Wilson’s breaststroke looks *awesome* right now.

dude
Reply to  R&R
6 years ago

word. thinking the same thing

gator
6 years ago

ok that breakfast is absolutely disgusting but nice underwater lighting and Conger is killing it!!!!

Becky D
6 years ago

How do you re-assemble the broken 100 times? I can’t even figure out where the 40 and 30 meter points are.
(Please be nice — I gave blood yesterday and I think I’m missing it.)

Oh, and the pancakes — *blerg*

taa
Reply to  Becky D
6 years ago

5 meters before and after the 15M mark would give you 30 and 40Meters going in the opposite direction. If I was timing I would mark it with a kick board

Becky D
Reply to  taa
6 years ago

And use three separate watches? My head hurts.

dmswim
Reply to  Becky D
6 years ago

I spotted what looked like cones set up in one of the shots.

Ol' Longhorn
6 years ago

Meanwhile, Zane Grothe is probably doing 30 X 100’s on 1:30 holding 55’s.

Oops
Reply to  Ol' Longhorn
6 years ago

Ledecky is holding 54s

Becky D
Reply to  Oops
6 years ago

And going on 1:15.

JustKeepSwimming
Reply to  Becky D
6 years ago

Farris can hold 50s on 55s smh

Ol' Longhorn
6 years ago

Farris was kicking Haas’ rear on those broken 100’s.

Wondering
6 years ago

Headline should be ‘Dean Farris Tackles Fast Friday, Texas men watch in awe’…

Aye Yuh
6 years ago

Like this comment if you came to the article specifically to read Dean Farris meme comments

About Coleman Hodges

Coleman Hodges

Coleman started his journey in the water at age 1, and although he actually has no memory of that, something must have stuck. A Missouri native, he joined the Columbia Swim Club at age 9, where he is still remembered for his stylish dragon swim trunks. After giving up on …

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