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Did a 3 hour ride today with two friends and after completing the ride we compared how much energy
we used according to our pulse meters.
I'm a big guy 6 feet and 230 pounds (of which I really should get rid of 40 or 50 pounds) and my
buddies are in pretty good shape an put more like 170 pounds on the scale. Comuting to work and back
on my bike mean I put in at least 50 miles on road each week all year round and on top I ride my MTB
often for like 3-5 hours rides, in other words I'm in shape but nothing special.
On todays ride I was getting hammered pretty good with my two buddies having their own sprint races
on occasion while all of us taking the same route and them waiting for me at times when I couldn't
stay on their tales. After the ride they were pretty fresh and ready for another loop while I was
pretty much done.
I pulse meter hardly ever reported my ticker getting below 160 during all 3 hours and the total
calories used was reported to be 4200, while my buddies had used only aprox 1500 and 1700 for the
same ride!
Now I know my weight is requirering me to work harder and also the 1500
guy has some very good technical skills so he can ride ditches and drops
which the 1700 guy (on a badass hardtail) and I prefer to handle with
our bikes on our shoulders (not that we dont do drops or ditches but...).
But now to my question did I really use almost three times the energy of my buddies or is the pulse
meters way off?
Kind regards
Bruno, Denmark
we used according to our pulse meters.
I'm a big guy 6 feet and 230 pounds (of which I really should get rid of 40 or 50 pounds) and my
buddies are in pretty good shape an put more like 170 pounds on the scale. Comuting to work and back
on my bike mean I put in at least 50 miles on road each week all year round and on top I ride my MTB
often for like 3-5 hours rides, in other words I'm in shape but nothing special.
On todays ride I was getting hammered pretty good with my two buddies having their own sprint races
on occasion while all of us taking the same route and them waiting for me at times when I couldn't
stay on their tales. After the ride they were pretty fresh and ready for another loop while I was
pretty much done.
I pulse meter hardly ever reported my ticker getting below 160 during all 3 hours and the total
calories used was reported to be 4200, while my buddies had used only aprox 1500 and 1700 for the
same ride!
Now I know my weight is requirering me to work harder and also the 1500
guy has some very good technical skills so he can ride ditches and drops
which the 1700 guy (on a badass hardtail) and I prefer to handle with
our bikes on our shoulders (not that we dont do drops or ditches but...).
But now to my question did I really use almost three times the energy of my buddies or is the pulse
meters way off?
Kind regards
Bruno, Denmark