That makes sense. ;)

We know.

:roflmao2:. I just looked at my Garmin upload for my evening loop I ride after work. 26 miles, total elevation gain- 304 feet.

True.

They are endurance guys, so them being out of shape really means they'll just do a ride like this more slowly, not that they'd have any problem completing it. From my perspective it really just meant the whole thing would be throttled back which is exactly what I was looking for. I really like hard rides or challenging elements of bigger rides. But today for a change of pace, a ride with zero suffer just hit the spot.

:)

Haha I live in a valley surrounded by mountains. Even our flat rides are not that flat. :p

My wife and I rode our tandem one time out of Cambridge, MD on the Chesapeake Bay. We rode 75 miles and the y-axis of our elevation plot went from 0 to 6 feet. The only reason we got to 6 feet above sea level was because we went over a humpback bridge over a canal. :lol:

Don't know what our total elevation was but it couldn't have been much. :)

RIP Gregg Allman.

Heck, I'm not sure how accurate my reading really is anyway. It also shows a calorie burn of 1069 in 1 hour, which just seems like crazy talk. If that's inflated, I'm pretty sure the elevation is, too.

It depends on your body size/muscle mass and how intensely you are riding. Because I have power meters on the bikes, we know exactly how much work is done on the bike. To figure out the calories burned from that is a little bit of a guesstimate because we all vary a little bit in our metabolic efficiency. But the range is narrow for humans in general, within a few percent.

Long winded, but that's the prelude to explaining why I pretty much know how many calories I burn on the bike.

A recovery or low effort ride is around 300-350 cal/hr.

A pretty easy to moderate intensity ride like today's is around 475-500 cal/hr.

A max effort hour like in a TT is more like 700-750 cal/hr

I weigh 130 pounds so if you're a similar size, that calorie estimate is indeed likely way over-inflated.

My kind of ride. :thumb:

I gotta get back on the bike this year, I just gotta.

¿Quien sabe? We have very little traffic, for the moment anyway. That's why people do such hairbrained things in the villages. No traffic to speak of. That is changing though, and there will be more collisions until it gets sorted out. One of my last bike rides, I would have been head oned twice had I been in a car. Once by the police.

At least there's more time now. No football and your lawn mower's busted, right?

It's the downhills that pull the average up.

My 22 mile out and back gains 21 meters.

Well I mean, she's a state champion. Of course her standards are higher. ;)

And that dovetails with my estimate that a ~1hr sprint tri at full throttle burns in the vicinity of 1000 calories, at 25-30% more than your weight. No PM for swimming or running, of course, at least not that's worth discussing.

Those two "friends" are probably gonna be essentially crippled for the rest of the weekend! :)

You just mixed units. My engineering physics teacher would give you a D- for that.

Calorie burn reported on a Garmin is worthless without a heart rate monitor or power meter.

Am I reading this right?

Did I miss something? I'm not doing them now, but y'all know I did piles of them.

A full out sprint for an hour?

... a sprint tri is a specific distance. No, it's not a sprint in the sense of a 100m track sprint, and "full-out" by this standard is different from that, but you know what I meant. :p

It's a whole different level of intensity from an Ironman, or a road ride, or a marathon.

I droped a guy with an ironman calf tattoo on a TT bike today. That was nice.