hmmm..was it really that many calories?

[cyclechick2008]

I used the calories per hour calculator to figure the calories I burned on my ride today.
I rode 63 miles in 3:52 and I weigh 153. It said I burned 2961 calories. That is way high I think.

what do you think?

Kim

[mimitabby]

sounds good to me!!

[Grog]

I'd say this would be about right for a man, and a woman's count would be a little less, at around 600 calories an hour (depending on the effort). But that's just my uneducated guess...

[Tuckervill]

I weigh around 170. I'm 46. I rode with my heart rate monitor a couple of weeks ago. 30 miles, 2:15 thereabouts, 1400 calories. The average speed for that ride was 12 mph. We had headwinds and I struggled up hills. HRM said I burned 500 cals last night on a 13 mile/1 hour ride.

If your ride felt easy, then I would back it off a few hundred calories. But if you worked it hard and fast, I can easily see 3000 calories for a ride like that.

Karen

[tulip]

Somebody (Chris Carmichael?) says that we burn between 13 and 17 calories per minute of cycling. Individual results may vary, of course, but that's the range.

[cyclingmom]

Nope, not high. It will vary depending on different things like hills climbs, effort, speed and so on, but cycling can burn some major calories. I know I've got a calorie counter on my little odometer, it's set to my weight and I easily burn 2000 calories on my long rides.

[bmccasland]

OK, that's it, I'm blowing the dust off my bike. tomorrow, I have a meeting in Baton Rouge today. I'm in the "I can't stand my body" frame of mind, and maybe regular riding will get me fit again. That and IF I enjoyed ab exercises when I get home.