Originally Posted by
mattm
I think what he read was that you can only process 300-500 calories per hour.
Isn't it something like that?
The quote says "burn" and I've seen plenty of extraordinarily low calorie/hour burn numbers in the wild. Mostly people half-assing jogging on treadmills or reading books on elliptical machines.
It's easy to forget that 18mph recovery rides are beyond what a lot of the population can do at max effort.