Quote Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama View Post
The bad thing about mountain biking is I am not good enough yet to continuously go. I have to stop to catch my breath or assess an obstacle.

Do you wear a HRM when you mtb? I would consider myself primarily a roadie whose mtb convert lately due to my disgust with the "saddle search". BUT, I was amazed when I wore my monitor on the trail with all the dismounts etc. STILL how many calories I burned. At first, I decided I really didn't need to wear my HRM on the trail like my road bike because I thought, "well, I'm slow as a turtle, so what good can this really be doing me, even though I'm sweating like a pig... what? what a minute... ding ding, sweat=burn... add it up!". Actually, I took both my mtb and road camping over last holiday w/e and I burned more on my trail rides than my road. Maybe it's the motivation to not bite a tree? fwiw...