Aug 17
I am over weight. I am 54 pounds ( I weight 245) according to the doctors in the government say I should weight about 190, and according to Bob Bondurant’s book I am not going to go fast if I am over weight. For every 5 pounds it adds 2% to your time. So 5 pounds is like 60 extra pounds in a NASCAR, which is a lot. So right now I am a Nascar driver who gained 700 pounds in the off season. Not good.
So I have been working at it for a few weeks now and wanted to start posting about it, maybe it will help get the pounds of faster. I need to ge down to a good 190 before the karting season starts in 2009. Going to be getting some Easykarts and taking the family racing.
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August 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Now you know how I feel in the middle of a hill climb (at 215 lbs.) when a small guy around 150 soaking wet peddles by me.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Weight is everything. In your case you can use that to your advantage I would think. Some of that weight is muscle and then should be able to transfer to energy to apply to the peddles and out to the wheel to the road therefore thrusting you forward…..see it’s so simple.
In my case my weight is a good thing in that I can load the outside wheels in a turn and provide myself more traction and turn a tighter corner, but out of the corner I lose speed because of the weight I don’t have the exit speed I would like….there is a balance, and it’s right at or around 190LBS.
Of course I remember being that weight in the Navy and was still over weight, but it’s a goal or milestone right now.