Originally Posted by
VaultGuru
Interesting responses. Thanks all. I think I am going to take it off the screen. After having had multiple Bruce tests, I do know that I need to eat a lot of carbohydrates while riding. My system starts relying on carbs, rather than protein at 95bpm, so the caloric burn rate is something I needed to understand.
That sounds improbable, or at best an oversimplification. And typically one absorbs only around 60g of carbs per hour ( some say it is possible to raise that to a maximum of 90g) so there's no point eating more than that while riding, however many calories one is burning.