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Being New Year’s Day and all, now’s the time to make those pesky resolutions. As most gyms know, peak attendance for the year is from about January 2 through mid-January, at which point all those “get in shape this year” resolutions start to fall through.

As TARPers, we have a better reason than illusory and abstract concepts like “heart disease” or “obesity” or “early onset of racing-car-based-demensia” to keep to our workout resolutions. Research shows that a race car driver’s heart rate gets as much of a workout while racing as if the driver were on the exercise bike, but the entire body gets an even harder workout due to coping with the mental stresses that are present, for example, when driving junkheap cars in a mass of other semi-suicidal junkheap car drivers. On the other hand, prolonged auto racing shows the same physical benefits that come from other high-activity athletic endeavors, such as better cardiovascular fitness and reduced atherosclerosis.

In other words, it would behoove all of us to be in good fitness for the race. Or at least better fitness than most of us are in now (Dave and his running habit are probably fine). So I’m going to use that to motivate better (and hopefully more) swimming sessions between now and the race.

Knowing Is Half of the Battle!, Team Strategy Author: Pat