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Old December 11th, 2006, 03:59 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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Default Misery! - Continuing Adventures of the Hiking Historian


Rachael Reynolds wrote:

While I have your attention, folks, I have a Fitday question. Are the
suggestions for calories burned considered accurate, or excessively
high? Fitday suggests I burned a thousand calories in my two hours or
so of hiking. Even with all the climbing, that seems high.

Oh, and any advice on sore quads? :-)

Neil
385/276/220

Okay I'd say. With my HRM I earn about 500 cals per hour for running on the
flat and I'm almost half your size so 1000 cals for 2 hours and I'm almost
half your size . And you were up and down hills although not running so
sounds reasonable.


It was all uphill. Even the downhill parts were uphill! :-) No wonder
General Washington's troops were so unhappy.

Neil
385/276/220