One hour of cycling at racing speeds, that's greater than 20mph, for a guy 205lbs is 1489 calories burned. I don't know what kind of fantasy world you live in, that you're going to burn 4000 calories riding your bike to work and be able to do anything once you got to work.
who said anything about one hour.
i have a garmin gps and that is what the calorie count says for my height weight and age, and its not even close to one hour. its over two,, the calorie count is 38 hundred something.
the k's are forty almost on the nose,
My work is at the opposite end of the city where I live on purpose,
This isn't my first rodeo, I have been cycling to work since I was diagnosed with cancer over twenty years ago.
I have slowly built up the milage over the years.
This isn't even my peak, Im fucking old.
My buddy trains for iron man competitions his name is in the record books for his age.
That is the kind of guys I hang out with,
And when I tell them the milage I do, they stop and wonder who is this guy
they compete I don't.
Seriously four k for caliories is nothing for a guy who has trained for it for years.
Well I shouldn't say nothing. at the start of the sesson I am shit when I get to work.
but a few weeks in that changes.
I have been doing it for over twenty years.
You should hang out with high milage guys on the bike path or hang out with people who run marathons and iron mans.
At my work of the guys who bike to work Im not even tops,
The guy that leads the milage competion, lives out of town, he rides year round, I think like over 80 k's into work his wife drives him home.
You should actually know what is possible first and what people actually do,
I have met old guys on the bike path retired and that is all they do is ride there bike, you should try and keep pace with them one day, shit they can move,
Seriously I am slow and old,
But people who know nothing think Im hard core,
and to be honest Im slowly down.