In NASCAR, they have another way of putting it: Save your equipment. Just because you can go as fast as you can leaving a pit stop, doesn't mean you should. You'll prematurely wear your tires. If you're constantly running at the edge of control, you're more likely to make a mistake and make contact with another car or the wall. Reign it in a bit. Run near the edge of control, but not on it, and you save your equipment, won't need to pit as often and are generally better positioned for the frantic end of the race for the win.

In the context of the article, and visiting a museum...there's no value to speed running a museum. All it does is allow you to say you were there. You've taken no time to examine any exhibit in detail, and you're unlikely to retain anything at all, or only the most superficial of details. For a good trip to a museum, you should only plan on seeing a single, or maybe two exhibits during your visit. Take your time to examine the artifacts. Read the blurbs. Take it all in. Rushing through it just to say you've been there is just a disservice to yourself, and a waste of museum resources.

One of the last times I'd been to the Field Museum in Chicago, I took my mother (who was visiting from out of town) to see the temporary Egyptian exhibit. I had been there a few weeks earlier at a private exhibition and had already spent a fair amount of time looking at it. When I went through with my Mom during the public exhibition, we saw at least 6 distinct groups go through while we were still taking our time going through (they let people in at something like 30 people at a time in timed intervals). Most of the crowd was mothers with teens & preteens that mostly and literally ran through the exhibit. What's the point of that?