Fly Kick vs. Free Kick

I decided to get back into swimming after not swimming seriously for 30 years. Right now, I'm trying to figure out where my weaknesses are, time-wise, but my times don't make sense to me. Freestyle and backstroke have always been my fastest strokes. Butterfly has always been my weakest and *** stroke my slowest. I'm not concerned about my *** stroke right now but today, I discovered that my fly kick is significantly faster than my freestyle kick - like by 8 seconds in 25yds. I find this very weird, especially considering that I'm pigeon toed, making it impossible for me to keep my feet together during the fly kick. I would think that at the very least, my freestyle kick would be as fast as my fly, but not slower. Is this normal? I think there's something seriously wrong with my flutter and whatever is wrong, it's not related to drag (I've already ruled out drag).
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  • Although 8 seconds for a 25 might not be normal. That's a pretty big difference! Physicists work to the accuracy of several decimals, Chemists to the nearest log unit; Biologists just try to get the sign right.
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  • Although 8 seconds for a 25 might not be normal. That's a pretty big difference! Physicists work to the accuracy of several decimals, Chemists to the nearest log unit; Biologists just try to get the sign right.
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