NASCAR drivers are often on the defense about whether they’re athletes.
Despite zipping around the track for hours on end in scorching heat, they’re often battling stigmas that they aren’t as athletic as, say, marathon runners or football players. Newly released biometric data from NASCAR driver Jamie McMurray, however, seeks to put an end to that.
On Twitter last week, McMurray published two charts and data about his heart rate. One snapshot was taken during a challenging bicycle race called The Assault on Mt. Mitchell, a 104-mile uphill race with elevation climb of 11,000 feet that took six hours to complete.