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Wish I had the exact number (my brain likes to count everything), but I've done like 100 flip turns at the pool this year. Back in high school I'd do over 100 a day. I've been telling myself for a decade "this is the year I'll do flip turns every lap by x-date", of course I set off this year with the same lie. And of course I'm not doing them on every lap, but at one point I did my first in over 20 years, and then I did a couple in a row, and then I realized how much less time I have to focus on such a trivial thing, but it was the act of exercising itself that I was benefiting from, not perfectly recreating who I was half a lifetime ago.
I've kept going to the pool this year, and I've improved myself by doing that, I'm not going to be as fast or skilled or fluid as I used to be, I'm probably never going to flip turn every turn again, but I'm not going to get discouraged by not meeting my own goals that I'd set while looking in a rose tinted mirror.
Could also phrase it as "swam over 100 km (really a bit impressive amount of distance, 1.5-2.5 km per day one of two days a week) listening to the same 4"the dollop", "god awful movies" "citation needed" and "no such thing as a fish" episodes on repeat (because I kept forgetting to bring my swim headphones and their transfer cable to the same place at the same time)
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