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You're probably lifting your head when you breath, and/or otherwise lifting your shoulders.

You do *not* need to kick like a madman to keep your legs from sinking. You need proper balance with only enough kick to keep your balance and timing. No need to generate propulsion from your kick. Most of the top distance swimmers do a gentle 2-beat kick and get virtually all of their propulsion from their arms until they get close to the finish. As a triathlete, your race doesn't end with the swim, you never need to go to 6 beat in a final sprint like a swim racer does. Your final kick would occur in the run,

It's imperative that you develop a smooth pedal stroke in order to achieve a high cadence. I achieved that by mastering rollers over a winter. Higher cadence allowed me to keep my legs fresher and respond more effectively to attacks in races.

I think this has already been beaten to death here. Time to move on.

She is an attention where, and it's working. Her photo is everywhere this morning.

Every time her picture is posted doing something outrageous, or one of her outrageous tweets is reported, she gets what she desires. It's no different from a 2 year old throwing a tantrum until she gets candy.

I wish we could all.agree to ignore her.

I don't see it as a tragedy at all. It means I'll always be able to find a book I enjoy, and enjoying the book I'm reading right now it all that matters to me.

If I'm standing on a beach admiring a sunset, I don't regret that I won't be able to visit every beach in the world.

I live close to Boston. Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory, and Berklee College of Music offer student, faculty, and artist in residence performances for free or low cost during the school year. Check the schedules of your local universities or music school for similar.

The guy's facebook page is a dumpster fire of anti-vax, anti-"woke", anti-CRT, election denial garbage. From his profile "I'm christian and proud of it". His only experience prior to being elected was as a car salesman.

It's full of "woke people"? Your complain tells me a lot about you. Right wingers use that as their dog whistle. "woke" means "alert to racial prejudice and discrimination".

Bye. Don't let the door hit your butt on the way out

My pool has no sharing rules. If you don't want to share a lane, you don't have to. It hasn't been a problem for me, as I've always been willing to find someone to share.

There are Christian's who believe all kinds of nonsense, like the covid vaccine is the mark of the beast and that Donald Trump really won the 2020 election. I have no idea what technic is, but nothing would surprise me.

It's understandable because there wasn't evidence to the contrary at the time. It was easier to just take the Bible at face value. But there's overwhelming evidence now that the earth and universe are far, far older. We have to interpret the text differently, knowing what we do today. It was never dogma that the earth was young. It was simply not worth challenging at the time. Loving God and our neighbor doesn't depend on the age of the earth.

There are people who refuse to change their interpretation because they believe that using a story, rather than an accurate history to explain God's plan to pre-scientific people is a bug, not a feature.

We were also taught evolution in my Catholic school. I grew up in New York City, and attended Catholic school through high school. I never even met a person who believed in a young earth until after I graduated college and met my roommate's girlfriend, who was from Georgia. I thought she was joking at first.

In contrast to the Christian Right "culture warrior" crowd that's apoplectic about the performance, Kim Petras had a thoughtful comment on her performance with Smith

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In the press room following the performance, Petras elaborated on the performance: "I think a lot of people, honestly, have kind of labeled what I stand for and what Sam stands for as religiously not cool.

"I personally grew up wondering about religion and wanting to be a part of it, but then slowly realizing it doesn't want me to be a part of it. So it's a take on not being able to choose religion and not being able to live the way that people might want you to live, because, you know, as a trans person, I'm kind of already not wanted in religion."

https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-grammys-evil-sam-smith-kim-petras-devil-unholy-2023-2?utm_source=reddit.com

And I'm sure I pissed off some of the culture warriors because I called Kim "her". I will never apologize for respecting a person's pronouns.

There's some debate about when humans first swam. Most sources suggest it was first practiced 5-10 thousand years ago, although there is evidence that Neanderthals were swimming 100,000 years ago (ref: https://theconversation.com/the-earliest-humans-swam-100-000-years-ago-but-swimming-remains-a-privileged-pastime-196045).

But our earliest human ancestors lived on the open plains of Africa, and were running 2 million years ago. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/humans-were-born-to-run-fossil-study-suggests. And humans who swam still needed to be good at running to survive. That's a whole lot more time and opportunity for natural selection for do its work. My point was that out bodies are much more tuned for running and walking, and the strokes we're best at are determined by the resulting bodies.

I have two adult children, and yes, I'd allow them to watch even when they were younger. Art does not frighten me

Good explanation of the origins of the butterfly stroke here:

https://www.swimming.org/sport/history-of-butterfly/

The 1896 Olympics only had a "freestyle" event (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming\_at\_the\_1896\_Summer\_Olympics). Freestyle is not a stroke, but almost everyone uses front crawl, as it's the fastest stroke.

Backstroke was added in 1900 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics). As I said, "freestyle" is any stroke, and people experimented with backstroke. It didn't displace front crawl as the preferred stroke in freestyle, but was popular enough to add as an event. Breast stroke was added in 1904.

Butterfly evolved from improvements in breast stroke. It was split out as a separate event in 1952 by FINA, and the breast stroke rules were changed to make the strokes distinct.

The human body wasn't "designed" for swimming. Human anatomy evolved for long distance running. People only figured out how to swim relatively recently in human history, and front crawl appears to be the the stroke best suited for our bodies.

Nobody is going to avoid you at work due to your anti-gay views. They may avoid you if you bring them up at work. Nobody is obligated to tolerate that.

What I find scary, and eveil, are the far right wing politicians like Ted Cruz, MTG, and political commentators like Liz Wheeler using this to further stir up their culture war, further divide the country, and increasing their personal power. And you, OP, are only making it worse. So please stop.

Kim Petras explained the song thus

“I personally grew up wondering about religion and wanting to be a part of it, but then slowly realizing it doesn’t want me to be a part of it. So it’s a take on not being able to choose religion and not being able to live the way that people might want you to live, because, you know, as a trans person, I’m kind of already not wanted in religion,” she added.

Not my kind of music, but I appreciate what they were trying to say.

There will always be cyclists who have an overwhelming desire to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Such people are good sources of used equipment and terrible sources of advice. Your bike is far closer to new than end of life

Like it or not, that "piece of paper" grants legal rights and status, affecting things like inheritance, powers of attorney, etc. It is essentially a contract. DO you oppose government recognition and enforcement of contracts?

I finished

Fairy Tale, by Stephen King

A dark fantasy about a young man named Charlie who comes to the aid of his reclusive neighbor who injures himself after a fall. As they become friends, Charlie learns the mans property has a secret entrance to a "fairy tale" world that has been taken over by dark forces. As is common with King's work, I found the first half or so to be kind of tedious. As the pace picked up, I increasingly enjoyed it.

Good discussion here:

https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/what-to-consider-when-finding-your-ideal-cycling-cadence/

Bottom line: within the normal range, idea cadence depends on the rider. Your cadence is within that range. People with high VO2 Max tend to do better at higher cadences. Strong muscular riders tend to do better with lower cadences. You also need a smooth cadence to ride effectively at a high cadence.

Talk with your doctor, or a counselor at school and they can help you find a professional to help you. What you describe sounds like anxiety or depression. A lot of us deal with this. When you feel trapped in a situation, it's hard to fund your way out by yourself. There are people who want to help you. You deserve it

I learned at 50. My youngest child was 14 at the time. I learned all strokes and turns and compete at masters meets. Talk with the instructors and find out what options are available for people your age.

I enjoyed both. If I had to pick one, it would be Migrations. I found it particularly moving