Drinking water for cycling whether training or racing is a disadvantage. Water adds weight and slows you down. The Crank gives us all the wrong advice on hydration for cycling.
So you think you are a hard man on a bike. Try sewing a kitchen pot scourer into your shammy, then go ride 100 miles on your new green shammy. This way you will really find out what bike riding stuff you are made of.
Hard riding cyclists pay attention here and drop what you are doing now. The Crank serves notice on how to be a real H.A.R.D bike rider, read and learn.
How to demoralise a fellow bike rider into selling you all his gear for next to nothing. Secretly coerce bike riders who are stronger than you into helping you win track races. The best thing is they won't even know they've contributed to your success.
The Crank was married once, cycling changed all that. Tactics like going to sleep with your bike clothes on so you can leap straight on your bike when the roosters start crowing, will have your competitors reeling in envy at your current best form.