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Originally Posted by jaykay
Is the karting helping you? If so how..?...don't mean to put you on the spot or anything.
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Yes, I believe so.
The goal of karting, losing weight, and physical training was to get faster in the car.
Yes, I have vastly improved in a kart. I have spent hours and hours in the kart and gotten professional instruction with the goal of working on skills in the kart that will transfer to the car.
I have gained better skills in vision, handling/balance, and can reliably drive a kart at the limit in every corner. I have also done a series of 1 hr kart races to improve the ability to remain highly focused for a long period of time.
Running, weight lifting, and hiking has put me in excellent physical shape and I have a ton more physical strength and stamina. I've been doing heat conditioning where I run 3 miles in 95F heat. For a couple of months, I was running 5 miles every other day (8.5 min miles).
On Friday at practice in the car, I was working on transferring those things from the kart to the car. Not everything in a kart is transferrable or applicable to a car but a lot of things are and I need to burn those things into muscle memory so they happen unconsciously under stress.
When I kicked all of this off back in December, I knew that it would be a long term effort and planned to use all of 2018 as a "training" year with the hope that I'd see measurable improvements in my car racing performance in 2019 - so I still have a long way to go, but I am hoping to see some early improvements between now and the end of the year.
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