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...stroke rate somewhere between 40 and 42 strokes per minute. Brown began somewhere over 45, a rate which generally lasts about 20 strokes (or 200 meters) into the race at which point each team settles at around 36. "They were way too high for themselves," first boat coxswain Travis Metz said...
Harvard's first team had expected Brown to try to get a jump off the line, but then Harvard expected to row through. "We moved out right after the settle," Metz said. The Bruins never had the chance to take the lead and before they knew it, it was all over...
Brown focuses on keeping its rate high. Harvard focuses on power, according to Silk. "The race was basically over when we took our standard power 20 just after the 1000 meter mark," Metz said...
...Metz criticized Brown's strategy of keeping its stroke rate so high, saying, "Sometimes you have to take the stroke rate down so that you can go faster. The important thing is efficiency...
...imagine a Cornell student brought it here." Metz said. "Whenever they're at home they tie a dead chicken to the goal posts between periods. The connection is there...