When is there not a point of weight reduction?

There was an interview with an Olympic athlete (swimming I think) where he was asked about his diet. He said they all pretty much eat the same things, so to get every advantage he could, he would strain his cottage cheese under RO water. Said he didn't know how much it helped, but competing with the best in the world, every little bit helps.
 
There was an interview with an Olympic athlete (swimming I think) where he was asked about his diet. He said they all pretty much eat the same things, so to get every advantage he could, he would strain his cottage cheese under RO water. Said he didn't know how much it helped, but competing with the best in the world, every little bit helps.

I don't ever understand the disconnect between adding weight and lowering performance. Performance being in this case the ease in which a rig can travel over the trail. We've wheeled with folks who ignored that concept and yes, at the end of the day that wound up back at camp with us. But, they were a lumbering pig on the trail and worked easily twice as hard on stuff that everyone else barely noticed. I'm not saying you should turn it into a religion but at least pay attention to it rather than ignore it fully and run heartily the other way.
 
There was an interview with an Olympic athlete (swimming I think) where he was asked about his diet. He said they all pretty much eat the same things, so to get every advantage he could, he would strain his cottage cheese under RO water. Said he didn't know how much it helped, but competing with the best in the world, every little bit helps.

Savvy should hire the swimmer who strains cottage cheese to race their rig. 🤣
 
That is a crazy amount of work.

Racing generally is a ton of work. Oddly enough, in my years in racing, I noticed another trend that went against common sense, but did make sense when I pondered it. That is, the hardest working teams in the paddock are generally not the front runners. Front runners usually have their stuff in order, and they are often times the first ones back at the hotel at night. The losing teams are taking advantage of all 24 hours in the day trying to win and keep their sponsors.
 
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Racing generally is a ton of work. Oddly enough, in my years in racing, I noticed another trend that went against common sense, but did make sense when I pondered it. That is, the hardest working teams in the paddock are generally not the front runners. Front runners usually have their stuff in order, and they are often times the first ones back at the hotel at night. The losing teams are taking advantage of all 24 hours in the day trying to win and keep their sponsors.

Preparation and planning is how you win. Sure, you gotta go fast... But the guys that go fast and keep going fast started WAY before the race starts.
 
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