Need to lose 40 lbs~ gradually bridging the gap.

[VeloVT]

Tuckervill --
Grrr, don't get me started on the idiocy of the Calorie King exercise calculator. For running, aside from the fact that no runner who runs with a stopwatch ever calculates their pace as "miles per hour" (instead of "minutes per mile"), necessitating tedious conversion, it measure "calories per minute" instead of calories per distance. Of course, the increase in calorie burn per minute running at a faster pace is much smaller than the increase in time gained by running at a slower pace -- and the completely WRONG result is that if I run 4 miles at a 9 minute pace, Calorie King tells me I burned more calories than if I run 4 miles at a 7 minute pace. This is just not true, sorry! This makes me absolutely crazy. I tried to send their tech support people an email about how stupid this way of calculating it is but after carefully composing a long email on their support form and clicking submit, the page failed because I didn't have the right cookie permissions enabled... arrgh.

Anyway, for running and biking, my two most common activities, I just use the rough estimate that running burns about 100 calories per mile, and biking burns about 40 (this last estimate is very rough and doesn't really take speed, wind etc into consideration, and they make a much bigger difference biking than they do running. On the other hand, I will take off a little bit if a lot of my riding was done in town with lots of stopping for lights). Then I randomly pick a pace and enter in a number of minutes that (according to their formula) produces the number of calories I estimate I burned ...