(click to enlarge and read)As you've probably figured out, I don't have any more pics from my trip. If you've been keeping track you realize that means I forgot to take any of my younger brother Mark and his wife Mimi. Doofus! (me, not him) I thought about taking one my last night there when Mimi came back out from her job in the city and then it disappeared from my fragile consciousness. Sorry.
I do have more pics of the area but that would just make you want to move to the PNW.
I'm assuming this is a demonstration of something not yet available, but it's a pretty cool idea:
Fire Escape
How tall could a building be?
The preacher doesn't feel like he had his A Game this morning. He'll be thinking for days of all the ways the biblical truth could have been presented more effectively. But the good news this morning is that, for the first time at Pathway, we didn't do Christian Karaoke.
Since we started services in January we've sung along to music off my hard drive - Hillsong, David Crowder Band, Chris Tomlin, Laura Story... But this morning Andrea lead us from her keyboard! She and Eric have been attending Pathway for several weeks but I just recently learned that she's a musician. We have some issues to work out, like a way to increase the volume on her keyboard, but it was terrific to sing "live." Thanks, Andrea!
I don't know what kind of magnets those are, and I'm not sure what, if any value there is to this, but as science demos go...
Fun with a battery & magnets
I may have mentioned that I'm struggling some with this swimming thing. I'm spending way too much effort and getting way too little in return. I get exhausted very quickly. What am I doing wrong?
As Todd says, "What you feel may not be real," so this evening S & M came out to our rec pool to give me their perspective on my technique, or lack of same.
The news is not good.
Aside from some improvement in the position of my arms when they enter the water they didn't see anything seriously amiss. Except that the lower half of my body is dragging along at about a 45-degree downward angle. Why? The common cause is carrying your head too high; head up means legs down. But I had my goggles and snorkel on, and was looking straight down at the bottom of the pool! And my kick is correct - from the hips at a steady pace.
I'm dragging an anchor through the water...the back half of my body!
They think I need professional help. (Pam has thought that for a long time.) They wonder if I could find a retired H.S. swimming coach or someone similar here in Sun City who could look at my swimming and spot the flaw in my technique. Or tell me that I'm structurally and irredeemably a non-swimmer. In which case this tri poses a legitimate threat to my very life.
On the other hand, think how totally fit I would be if I could work myself up to swimming 400 meters dragging 75 pounds of dead weight through the water behind me!
Tomorrow morning I'll ride my bike for the first time in over a week. That's the one part of this training that gives me positive feedback.
Considering all the lint you get in the dryer, if you just kept drying your clothes would they eventually disappear?
1 comment:
"Swimming downhill" is the key to floating correctly in the water. I had the SAME issue. I sought help by a coach who said that in his ENTIRE time coaching, he never had to get IN the water with a student...he did for me. That coach couldn't help me. All that he did was embarrass me...but Mark K. (the race director for the YMCA triathlon in November) suggested a book called TOTAL IMMERSION (by Terry Laughlin) that did the trick. I'd give you my copy, but since my swimming is rusty ---I just can't part with it right now.
Go to the bookstore and take a look. GO TODAY!!!!
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