Article: Having someone monitoring your strokes, your breathing, and your technique is a great way to get a new perspective on how you approach your swim style. A good coach standing on the pool deck working with a group of swimmers is the best way to improve your overall swimming performance. If you can't find a coach, have a swimming buddy whose technique you admire watch your workout. Aside from a coach, recording yourself is a great way to get perspective on how you move through the water. You'll see bad habits you might not have been aware of as well as strengths you can improve upon. A long stroke is great; you're using good propulsion, low drag, and glide. A short stroke is great, too, but you can waste energy on strokes that are too short and scrappy. Know your stroke rate. It's a powerful aspect to know because it will allow you to make needed changes to your strokes to improve your style. Ask a friend or coach to time you for ten strokes with a stopwatch, not including dives or push-offs, just regular swimming. Count the number of strokes you take in the ten seconds. This is your stroke rate. Adjust your stroke as needed. A long distance event is any distance-based swimming event more than 1650 yards or 1508.8 meters. It can also be any time based even equal to or greater than one hour and can be in a pool or any body of water. Long distance swims are a great way to focus your expertise in your training for an fun event. Sign up with friends and make a weekend getaway out of it!
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Get a coach. Record yourself. Find balance between your long stroke and your short stroke. Search for long distance swims in your area.
Article: When repairing disk errors on Windows, it's wise (though not strictly necessary) to close any open files to prevent further issues. Be sure to save any work you have and close a program by click the "X" icon in the upper-right corner, or use the following steps to close programs in the Task Manager: Press "Ctrl + Shift + Esc" to open the Task Manager. Click an app that is open. Click "End Task' in the lower-right corner. File Explorer has an icon that resembles a folder with a blue clip. It has an icon that resembles a computer monitor. It's usually the one marked (C:), below the "Devices and drives" heading. It may be named "OS (C:)" or have your computer name or drive name. Right-clicking it will display a drop-down menu below it. You can double-click the "Devices and drives" heading to expand it if you don't see any hard drives listed there. If your computer has more than one hard drive, click the hard drive on which the file you want to delete is stored. It's in the drop-down menu. A pop-up window will open. This is at the top of the pop-up window. It's near the top of the window in the box labeled "Error Checking". Doing so allows Windows to begin scanning your hard drive for errors. If Windows finds any errors, they will be repaired automatically if possible. This can take several minutes to several hours depending on your selected hard drive's size and number of errors. Now that you've repaired any issues with your hard drive, you should be able to delete any files which were locked due to hard drive issues. Use File Explorer to navigate to the file and click it to select it. Press the "Del" key to delete it. You may still have to use Safe Mode to delete your file if the file is being used by a program or service. If you still can't delete the file in question, the file is most likely either locked by another user or reserved as a system file. Either way, you won't be able to delete the file.
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Close any open files. Press Win+E to open File Explorer . Click This PC. It's in the sidebar menu to the left in File Explorer. Right-clck your computer's hard drive. Click Properties. Click the Tools tab. Click Check. Click Scan drive when prompted. Allow the scan to run. Try deleting your file again.
Article: Turn the oven on to 350F (180C). Get out a baking sheet and line the sheet with a silicone baking mat. If you don't have a mat, you can line it with a sheet of parchment paper. Set the pan aside while you make the cookie dough. Get out a large mixing bowl and measure all of the dry ingredients into it. Use a spoon or whisk to stir the dry ingredients together for about 30 seconds. You'll need: 1 1/4 cups (112 g) rolled oats (not quick-cooking) 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 1/2 cup (48 g) almond flour 1/2 cup (83 g) brown rice flour Peel 1 large banana and place it into a food processor. Add the remaining wet ingredients and put the lid on the food processor. Blend the wet ingredients on high speed until the mixture is completely smooth. You'll need to blend: 1/2 cup (125 g) stirred, smooth almond butter 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup 2 tablespoons ground flax seed 3 tablespoons liquid virgin-coconut oil 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Remove the lid from the food processor and scoop the wet mixture into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Use a sturdy spoon or rubber spatula to stir the mixtures together to form cookie batter. If you'd like to add extra crunch or sweetness to the oatmeal breakfast cookies, add in 1 cup (125 g) of chopped nuts or dried fruit. Gently stir the batter until the nuts or fruit are incorporated. The cookie dough will be very stiff at this point. For example, try a mix of dried blueberries, pumpkin seeds, or chopped walnuts. You can use two spoons to scoop the cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Or use a cookie scoop that measures about 2 tablespoons to scoop the dough onto the sheet. Set the cookies about 2-inches (5-cm) apart on the sheet. Gently flatten each of the cookies a little. Put the baking sheet in the oven and bake the cookies for 15 to 17 minutes. The cookies will puff a little and become slightly brown once they've finished baking. Let the cookies cool on a wire rack. Store the leftover oatmeal raisin cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
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Preheat the oven and line a baking sheet. Combine the dry ingredients. Blend the wet ingredients together. Combine the wet and dry mixtures. Stir in any chopped nuts or dried fruit you want to use. Scoop the cookies onto the prepared sheet. Bake the oatmeal raisin cookies.