hi Boyscout.
It IS hard to ride Enduro, but I don't think you can calculate it that way, If you are measuring your heart rate while running, riding a bike or other kind of exercise, the pulse meter is calculating how many calories you're body is burning, from information based on your heart rate, time, speed, distance and altitude. but when you use your Pulse meter on any kind of extremesports, like Enduro, MX, Mountainbike or Skateboarding, where adrenalin is a big part of the game, you can't trust the calculation on the amount of burned calories, because adrenalin makes your heart beat faster, even without moving a muscle, and the pulse meter will "think" that you are moving and burning calories, but it's a false result, it's "only" the adrenalin is making your heart rate higher than normal..
try on your next race and check your heart rate when you are on the starting line ready to go, your pulse should be on "resting" but I'll bet you that it's much higher than your resting heart rate, because of the exitement and adrenalin in your body..
but sure, you are burning alot of calories in an endurorace, but unfortunately not as many as your pulse meter is telling you..
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