Ryan Harty Gives His Take on Eddie’s 20×50’s (Video)

Reported by Lauren Neidigh.

TEXAS VS. AUBURN

  • Results
  • Hosted by Texas
  • Monday, January 8th
  • 25 Yards
  • Dual Meet Format

FINAL TEAM SCORES:

  • MEN: Texas 160, Auburn 140
  • WOMEN: Texas 175, Auburn 117

The Auburn Tigers hit the road for a dual meet against the Texas Longhorns on Monday afternoon. The Longhorn women remained undefeated, winning by nearly 60 points. On the men’s side, Texas picked up their 2nd dual meet victory of the season as they edged out Auburn by 20 points.

In the backstrokes, Auburn’s Hugo Gonzalez and Texas’ Ryan Harty battled it out. Harty took a narrow front-half lead in the 100 back, but he ended up tying Gonzalez for the win there as they touched simultaneously in 47.85 at the finish. They returned for the 200 back, with Gonzalez taking it out in 50.38 to establish his lead and winning in 1:42.98 to Harty’s 1:44.06.

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IM FAN
6 years ago

Harty is going to be one to watch. His swims at NCAAs last year were insane, and though he hasn’t produced anything incredible yet, it was the same case last year, and we know Eddie pushes his swimmers HARD. Him and Katz are going to be a force to be reconned with come march.

Dudeman
Reply to  IM FAN
6 years ago

I think you might be confused, Harty didn’t swim at NCAA’s last year, he red shirted because of an injury. Everything else you said I agree with

IM FAN
Reply to  Dudeman
6 years ago

I somehow fused Shebat and Harty into the same person, Harty is still impressive though. he Texas backstroke group is still insane, and I honestly think Shebat, Katz, and Harty can go 1-2-3 in the 200 back in march.

HOYA13
6 years ago

I’m super impressed with Madisyn Cox doing them all IM. A girl busting out 5 sub-35 sec 50s breast in a row after just having done 250 fly and 250 back? Damn girl. Get it.

NM Coach
6 years ago

I might be mistaken…but this is similar to a set Jack Simon used to give to Joe Hudepohl…except Jack had him go from a DIVE on each one!!!!

Phelps swims 200 breast rio
Reply to  NM Coach
6 years ago

That’s insane.

Swammer
6 years ago

Are the 50s all out and LCM? 20×50 on 35 scy doesn’t seem too challenging

BSD
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

Yes it is SC, and I don’t think you realize how hard that set is, 35 is very fast interval

Sir Swimsalot
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

Dude, it’s basically a a 1000 Fly or IM. That’s challenging no matter who you are.

40.00
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

Keep in mind it’s fly.

Caleb
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

you’re not trying to hold 33s…

Swammer
Reply to  Caleb
6 years ago

Okay well 20×100 on 1:30 free is also hard if you are trying to hold 46s – so thanks for the input, caleb.

Dudeman
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

Are you serious? They’re trying to hold as fast as they can the entire time. They’ll probably start out getting close to 10 seconds rest for the first couple repeats but it gets harder with each consecutive repeat due to the fast turn around. It’s 1000 fly on 1:10 per 100 base butterfly. It’s about as far as you can get from “not too challenging”.

Swammer
Reply to  Dudeman
6 years ago

Yes I’m serious.. Schooling goes 1:37 in 2fly. 1:10 base fly shouldn’t be challenging for swimmers of his caliber. Give that set to age groupers and they could finish it.

Admin
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

Dang. I wish I coached high school swimmers that are as fast as your age groupers.

I think maybe you’re underestimating the amount of effort it takes to go 1:37 in the 200 fly…

Swammer
Reply to  Braden Keith
6 years ago

I clearly challenged the difficulty of a 20×50 set, not the difficulty of a 1:37 2fly – re-read my comment before you post;)

Admin
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

I think you missed my point.

Yes, he can swim one 200 fly at 1:37. But putting the maximum effort into a 1:37 200 fly leaves you dead. He can barely get out of the pool. I think subscribing that he can turn around and do 4 more 200 flys on very little rest and have it be “easy” is underselling the amount of effort he had to put into the 1:37 200 fly. When these guys get out of the pool after 1:37 200 fly, they can barely walk.

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Jeremy Schultheiss
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

swammer is clearly trolling. I don’t know a single age group swimmer that could finish that set.

SwimGeek
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

You’re just trolling, right?

Dudeman
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

A one rep max is not the same as an endurance based set. I don’t think many age groupers could do this set at all except for the elite recruits. I honestly don’t think the average age group swimmer could do this set as freestyle most of the time

12beatkick
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

Omg even in freestyle this set is tough as a nail

dude
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

I’m positive I couldn’t do it. Ever.

sven
Reply to  Swammer
6 years ago

First, even guys like Schooling were probably not holding faster than 27… the non-fliers were probably holding 30. 1000 yards of fly in under 12 minutes is hard, no matter who you are. Even for guys with a ridiculous aerobic capacity like the Texas guys, 5-8 seconds isn’t a lot of rest.

Keep in mind, they do this once a year during Christmas training, which is typically the time when coaches beat the hell out of their swimmers. It must be pretty challenging.

Josh Davis
Reply to  sven
6 years ago

Sven is about right. I did that set every year from 1990 to 1999 with the Texas guys and most of us were just barely making it. But to be honest to average around 29’s to 31’s with good technique on all 20 is pretty darn good.

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