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Swimming!!!! The rotation while you swim isn't a huge amount, I should stress that. It's a slight natural rotation with the strokes. When your left arm reaches forward, a slight rotation to the left (like you're stretching out to grab something) and so on. It's all about streamlining and getting the motions to be fluid. I will think on kick advice. Keep your knees close together but not squeezed up against each other, and point your toes. Kick from the hip with your whole legs, not from the knees. This is where thinking about lifting your hips helps a lot. The knees should stay bendable,

I loved how the chunks of flesh came off...

You want your hands to be slightly curved to act like a scoop. As you do the underwater pull portion of the stroke, you can move your arm in a very slight "S" shape to increase the efficiency of the pull (this takes practice -- it's like a small wave of the arm instead of just pulling your arm straight down through the water, but it happens quickly.) Try to keep your arms close to your body on the strokes as your arms come out of the water -- I used to have a problem with my left arm where I swung it way out in the stroke and had a straight elbow, and that's really inefficient. The way my co

Since this is an open water swim, breast stroke might be the better technique -- if there are waves, I prefer using that stroke because you can time your breaths with the waves and it helps keep you in a straighter line, whereas with freestyle it's easy to get pushed toward the shore without realizing it. How often are you breathing? For this distance you want to be breathing every 2 strokes. Do you have a side that you feel more comfortable breathing on? Also, are you turning your head just enough so your mouth is out for you to breathe? You shouldn't be turning your head too much, it's a w

I'd find the poll but I'm too lazy, so I'll just say it: DarkUFO has done an viewers' response poll for every episode of seasons 3 and 4. Of those, the Desmond episode ("The Constant") is the current top episode (I think it maybe be my new favorite of the whole series, displacing season 2's "Lockdown.") This week's Juliet snoozer, "The Other Woman," places in the bottom 1/4 and is the lowest-rated of this season. edit: or forget what I said about being lazy and see for yourself here: http://darkufo.blogspot.com/2008/03/episod...k-6-update.html

Piece o' cake! Warm-ups to work outs were longer than that! Still totally spooked by the run portion, even if I do walk it.

Same here, sadly. Not sure why.

I could do the swim, and the bike, and walk the run part since Ted and I regularly walk twice as far as that just for the hell of it.... but damn, you girls are making the fan section sound WAY more delicious and intoxicating!

I was actually looking at a game, but it's because they're playing the Red Sox and a certain boy I know likes those dudes. Don't think it's gonna happen though; it's a mid-week series. At what point in the season?

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All I've got so far is: actually, Kate's episode was lamer.

But it only sharpens MY pain. 100 years of sorrow....

I think we all know how seriously I take this show, but tonight I couldn't watch the scene in the Tempest station without thinking of the episode of The Simpsons called "King-Size Homer." I will have better things to say about this episode tomorrow, I'm sure.

I'm obsessed.

I can't really read, I mostly just look at pictures.

is how I read this.

Memphis blows goats year-round; May cannot save it. You should come here that weekend. Permanently.

You Bens!

What she said!

Don't forget to grab a sammich at Manny's!