This stuff is hard.

[boyscout]

Ill start this by saying I'm not a very good rider. My technique is getting better, but i push very hard and rely on my fitness to pull me through. I am 44 years old, I weigh 177 pounds and I'm 6 feet tall. My max heart rate is 186, my resting heart rate is 46. So with all that said i wanted to share the heart rate data i gathered on Sunday from my race. Ill also say that this was the easiest enduro that i have done thus far ( Ive only done 6). This is total data collected, started about 2 minutes before 1 transfer section ended about 1 hour after getting off bike.

Total time of Data collection 5 hours 33 minutes
Average Heart Rate 125.
Max heart rate 172.
Minimum Heart rate 71
Total Calories Burned 3946.

To give some additional support to put things in perspective.
To burn 1 pound of fat is 3500 calories.
To run one mile is about 130 calories for me.

So for me riding an enduro would burn more calories than running a marathon.

p.s.-and my wife still doesn't feel sorry for me.
p.s.s -i would have lost a pound of fat had i not drank so much beer on the way home.