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[totient]

It's amazing what adding 100 miles to my weekly average cycling distance is doing for my metabolism.

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[wren13.livejournal.com]

Just means you can eat more donuts!

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Don't that do something nifty?

(YAY for the Triplets of Belleville icon!)

[42itous.livejournal.com]

hmm, I need to try that. I commuted by bike three days this week, making about 27 miles.

[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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/cgull_/]

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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/cgull_/]

Are you riding to That Ice Cream Party this year?

(I'm not, I think)

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

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.

[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.

[c1.livejournal.com]

What amuses me is that you can already hide behind a flagpole. What next-- a chain-link fence? *grin*

[http://users.livejournal.com/cgull_/]

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 palmwiz...)

[unclebooboo.livejournal.com]

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...