Post ride hunger

[Brandy]

I wore my heart rate monitor on a 3 hour ride and it said I burned up 1400 calories. Okay, so that means I burned up almost my whole allotment of calories that I'm supposed to eat that day!

Please be careful if you're using a HRM to estimate calories burned. I ride with a power meter and it gives me energy expended in kilojoules. This equates fairly equally to calories. I can tell you that my HRM always reads about 25% higher than the power meter does in terms of calories burned. If you're trying to lose or maintain weight, I wouldn't trust a HRM...I believe the numbers read high.