Last time I promised to post the results of wearing a metabolic armband while handing out bars to runners at the expo, handing out numbers to runners at the expo, and watching runners run the marathon! And here it is. [Good news: I am now the proud owner of a fancy pants metabolic armband so expect more posts like this to come!]
Day of working at the marathon expo (7am-7:30pm): 2830 calories burned (3733 calories
for the entire day). Clocked in almost 10 hours of “moderate” physical activity which is much higher than a normal day (see image).
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| The amounts of moderate physical activity (brown) and vigorous physical activity (yellow) I had from working at the expo |
Handing out race numbers (12:30-6): 700 calories
Biking 15 miles of the marathon course: 363 calories
Watching people run 26.2 miles: 750 calories (and cheering, of course!)
Thursday, running for 30 min: 296 calories
Afterburn 60 minutes: 139 calories
Saturday, biking 15 miles: 255
Running a 5K (26 min): 242
Afterburn 30 minutes: 90
calories
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| The graph of calories per minute when biking (8:00am-9:15am) and running a 5K (10:00am-10:26am) |
Unfortunately the afterburn results were not very scientifically accurate so I'll be trying out more of those types of tests soon. For now though, I'm off to Denmark... I'll be doing research for a book about eating, so I've got my running shoes and metabolic armband packed and will be reporting to you from there!
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