Originally Posted by
bruce19
Just a quick question. I thought calorie burn was related to weight to some degree. At 190 lbs am I not going to burn more cals than my 125 lb gf for a given ride?
Marginally. But if your goal is to lose weight, put your goal weight into the calculations.
Originally Posted by
bruce19
Yesterday 11 of us went off on a ride of 42 mi. There was 2600 ft. of climbing but 1600 ft. was in the first 18 mi. That amounted to 90 ft./mi. which is much more than I usually do. I worked my butt off. Most of the climbs were the long, slow kind that I suck at. So, when I'd get over a hill I had to continue to work to get back up to the group. Even the ride back was a bunch of rolling hills. Those weren't so bad 'cause I am actually good at powering over that kind of rise. Of course, by then, I was feeling kind of worn out. Point is that Strava says I burned 1495 Kj on that ride and over 1700 on the ride last week that I had referenced in this thread. Even though last week's ride was 6 mi. longer my body is telling me that can't be true.
42 miles? Using the 100 cal/5 km calculation, that's 1352 cal. That's what I would go with.
Strava appears to use speed. So if your average speed on this ride was, say, 18 km/h because of the climbing, Strava figures you haven't worked as hard as if you did a ride at, say, 22 km/h on a flatter ride.
But if you're trying to lose weight, just go with a lowish number of calories burned. Going low makes up for an extra calories you might have consumed.
