Freewheelers Ride Tomorrow Night?

ZAC said:
kush, is the caloric value accurate? Is that setup for your specifics?
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ZAC

In a nutshell, it's not accurate

All the Edge units use ONLY speed, time, and distance for calorie calculation. HR and Power Meter if present are not used. Most people assume that the correct figure is somewhere between 50 and 60% of what the Edge displays.

Naturally, not using HR or effort based calc in measuring calorie loss is stupid. But Garmin's feature set is so hit and miss, we've come to not be surprised by it.
 
A fair guess is 2300-2400 for that ride, based on some numbers I plugged in to this:
http://www.triathlontrainingblog.com/?page_id=483

There are known charts which take your age, weight, male/female, and average HR then calculate your calories/minute. These are ballpark, but it's a start.

There are also cycling calculators which takes your weight and average speed to give you calories burned. IME they're always higher than the HR-based ones. So if you use this one:
http://www.taoscycleclub.com/BIZyCart.asp?ITEM_ID=GUIDE04&CLIENT=CycleClub

It says you burned 3493 calories. That's over 1000 difference between them. You eat that much food and soon you'll be putting in bigger numbers for the weight input.
 
I did lose my standard 2% or 4lbs. Is there an established weight loss to calorie loss correlation?
 
kush said:
I did lose my standard 2% or 4lbs. Is there an established weight loss to calorie loss correlation?
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That's water you're losing, which means you're dehydrating on these rides. Keep an eye on that as the temps go up. That stuff can hurt.

A pound is 3500 calories, which is why you hear the standard line of cutting back 500 calories a day to lose a pound a week. If the 4 pounds were really calories burned, that would translate to 14,000 calories burned on the ride. That would mean you weigh a little over 3500 pounds to burn that much in a ride like that.
 
Norm said:
That's water you're losing, which means you're dehydrating on these rides. Keep an eye on that as the temps go up. That stuff can hurt.

A pound is 3500 calories, which is why you hear the standard line of cutting back 500 calories a day to lose a pound a week. If the 4 pounds were really calories burned, that would translate to 14,000 calories burned on the ride. That would mean you weigh a little over 3500 pounds to burn that much in a ride like that.
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I know its water. Otherwise, I'd be 25 lbs by now. They say if you keep to within 3-4% loss on a ride it's fine. I drink 44oz on the 2.5hr ride which technically should be a bit more.
 
BiknBen said:
I hoping to make it there. I have my bike with me but may be cutting it close.
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If you want give me a call on my cell if you're running late (number is up on the team thread), and I'll put sticks in people's spokes to hold them off.
 
I just moved from New Brunswick down to Hamilton. I'm trying to find info on local group rides (shops or teams). Is checking out the Princeton Freewheelers a good place to start? There's a membership fee to get access to the ride list. Thanks!
 
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