Originally Posted by
bikfor
I recently picked up a street worthy road bike (Scott S50) and have also recently began to ride daily or semi-daily. I've pledged to myself to ride atleast 10mi a day to begin with (takes me an hour) and was wondering how many calories I'm burning. All of those online calculators say about 600 per hour as well as archived posts on this forum. But you're not pedaling the entire time, right?
When I jog a mile in 20min my treadmill tells me 175 calories burned and this sounds accurate. I'd rather burn calories cycling than jogging as its much more fun to me.
It does feel like I've been on a long very light run after I'm done cycling but 600 calories? Really? I'm beat after my 175 calorie jog and sweating much more (probably due to lack of wind when jogging compared to doing 25mph on my bike).
I didn't read this thread but my gut feeling is that an hour of riding at a 10mph pace is probably not much more work than going for an hour long walk - unless it's all uphill or something.
I did a ride with my 74 year old dad last summer. 18 miles at a 12.5 mph pace and my garmin said I burned 600 calories. My guess is probably half that as my average hr wasn't much over 100 and about what I get walking. I'd say 200-300 calories for your hour long ride is in the ballpark unless you are really out of shape or something and a 10mph pace is highly aerobic.