Re: energy used riding

ogden wrote:
Bryan wrote:

ogden wrote:
mr p wrote:

According to the diet software I'm using, my daily commute by bike (
about 2.5 hours there and back) uses about 400 Kcalories..seems like a
suprising amount doesn't it. Probably why I feel so tired today!

Taking a daily average energy consumption of 2500 for an adult male,
spread evenly over 24 hours (not exactly scientific, but for ***-packet
calculations it'll do). That gives 105 calories per hour without any
specific additional activity. Compared with the 80 per hour you're
managing on the bike, it seems surprisingly low.

Try wriggling around in your seat a bit, looks like you'd burn more
calories spending 5 hours on your sofa watching Jeremy Kyle.

Surely the 400KCals == 400,000 Calories ?

Yes. And "calorie" is the colloquial term for kilocalorie. If somethone
refers to a bag of crisps having about 200 calories, they really mean
kilocalories, as one real calorie is a tiny tiny amount of energy
(enough to raise the temperature of 1cc of water by one degree Kelvin,
iirc.)

Heh. I just eat and drink what I want... I didn't know about that.

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