phi ([info]palmwiz) wrote,
@ 2009-05-15 19:36:00
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It's amazing what adding 100 miles to my weekly average cycling distance is doing for my metabolism.

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[info]wren13
2009-05-16 12:59 am UTC (link)
Just means you can eat more donuts!

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[info]unclebooboo
2009-05-18 01:46 pm UTC (link)
I've taken to assigning "mile equivalents" to calorie counts. Knowing that a jelly donut is equivalent to three miles of running is enough to make me think twice about eating it...

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[info]qwrrty
2009-05-16 01:49 am UTC (link)
Don't that do something nifty?

(YAY for the Triplets of Belleville icon!)

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[info]42itous
2009-05-16 02:15 am UTC (link)
hmm, I need to try that. I commuted by bike three days this week, making about 27 miles.

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[info]deguspice
2009-05-16 02:42 am UTC (link)
Did you see any of the articles about Michael Phelps's diet when he was competing at the Olympics? He was consuming 12,000 calories a day. That's about 10,000 more than the typical diet listed in the RDA panels.

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[info]cgull_
2009-05-16 11:05 pm UTC (link)
9-12k calories is typical for cyclists doing stage races, which involve perhaps 200km at 20-25 mph. So it surprises me that Phelps would do that when he was doing events no more than 7 minutes apiece. Ah, that's his *training* diet; he was probably eating a lot less at competitions.

And yes, food...disappears when I'm riding a lot.

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[info]c1
2009-05-17 01:31 am UTC (link)
I think there's also a certain amount of calories being burned trying to keep warm: being immersed in water sucks away body heat way better than air.

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[info]cgull_
2009-05-16 11:06 pm UTC (link)
Are you riding to That Ice Cream Party this year?

(I'm not, I think)

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[info]palmwiz
2009-05-16 11:33 pm UTC (link)
I had a big plan to bike *from* That Ice Cream Party up to Montreal, where there is a Worldcon planning meeting the following weekend. But now I have this job thing, and I'm also not feeling the lack of quality biking time right now.

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[info]c1
2009-05-17 01:31 am UTC (link)
What amuses me is that you can already hide behind a flagpole. What next-- a chain-link fence? *grin*

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[info]cgull_
2009-05-17 02:18 am UTC (link)
In the sense of "how fast do you have to run from the bear", I think he only has to hide behind...me. (Yes, I'm the same order of skinny as [info]palmwiz...)

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