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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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[deguspice.livejournal.com]

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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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.

[c1.livejournal.com]

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.