Originally Posted by
CrazyWally
Another important factor to consider is intensity of your ride. I can ride 20 miles as a comfortable pace and not go through as many calories as a 10 mile when kicking it into high gear!
Sure about this?
High intensity burns more calories per minute. However, riding half the distance at a quicker pace will take less than half the time, so you'd have to be burning more than double the calories /minute on the short/fast ride.
for example
20 miles at 10 mph takes two hours
10 miles at 20 mph takes half an hour.
You'd have to be burning four times the calories/minute on the shorter ride to have burned the same total calories. Is this so?
edit: You may well feel more tired after the shorter ride, but this doesn't necessarily equate into more calories burned.