Quote Originally Posted by divingbiker View Post
I just count 100 calories = 1 AP. I'm not smart enough with the HRM to figure out how many of my calories were in the high/medium/whatever category.

GC, good for you if you can get by without eating APs or WPAs. I get 22 pts (soon to go down to 21, I hope), and that's not nearly enough when I'm exercising.
Ok, so here's where I get confused.

I ride into work, one way, 20 miles and ~1000 ft climbing. It takes an hour and a half, I average 85% MHR (per formula which I know isn't accurate, but it's at least ubiquitous), and the program says I burn about 900-950 calories doing it.

Per most calculators and WW tools I've used, and now this 100cal=1AP thing, this is *9* Activity Points. Wow!

So on days I ride into work, should I be eating 9 more points? 4 more points? or none? That's quite a difference between 20 points a day and 29!

(when I eat "none", I should mention that I am a starving wreck by about 7pm and will claw at the kitchen walls for sustenance if I must, so I know I should eat some of them... but how many?)

-- gnat! (I should be in a bikini with how much riding I do these days, but noooo...)