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Old 10-09-14 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by acidfast7
i agree.

i was expecting around 400kcal/RT.

i'm willing to listen to other ideas of how to calculate.
HR and power can be related for an individual, within a narrow enough range. IMO, if you know your power levels for various heart rate zones, you could use a heart rate meter and work up an equation, integrate over time and arrive at total power. Then look at some of the online formulas and monkey with the guessed-at parameters until they agree with your hr-based estimate, and then use that parameterized formula for the duration. But a direct power measurement at least once is the only way to be really confident.

Or just pick a number between 400 and 650.
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