Biking & Running

  • How To Increase Your Half Marathon Speed - So now I am training for a better time in a half marathon. Yesterday I ran a 21.32km in 2:53:16. Today I took it easy and only ran 7.28km in 43.26 for a pace of 5:58/Km. Activity | Duration | Distance | Speed | Energy Burned Run: 43:26 7.28km 10.6kmph 554c My [...]
  • I Ran A Half Marathon Today - I took a break from running and biking for a week to give my body a rest. Party also because I got bit discouraged about loosing all my activities that I have been recording on RunKeeper. There was a bug in the software where if you removed an activity from [...]
  • Weekly Distances For Cycling And Running - Here are my weekly distances for cycling and running for the last 4 weeks. I am going to try to do a 25km cycle and a 16km run on both Firday and Saturday for a total weekly distance of 150km for cycling and 62km running.
  • How To Lose Weight Cycling And Running - Follow my posts and you will see How To Lose Weight Cycling And Running. It is not enough to burn lots of calories in your workout but you must also limit your calorie intake, which will mean a life style change that includes eating lots of foods that have a [...]
  • How To Lose Weight Biking And Running - You want to know How To Lose Weight Biking And Running — it takes time, hard work, self denial. I spend from 11:45am to 3:33pm Losing Weight Biking And Running today. That’s almost 4 hours — a lot of time! I had to walk-run-walk the last 3km of my 16km [...]
  • Burn Calories Cycling - This is the way I Burn Calories Cycling. Today I picked up a new personal best of 34:19kmph over 12.57km and 32.38kmph over 25km. Here are my two cycle legs for today. Activity | Duration | Distance | Speed | Energy Burned Cycle: 22:03 12.57km 34.19kmph 224c Cycle: 24:34 12.52km 30.56kmph 224c
  • New Records: 34kmph/12.5km & 32kmph/25km - I have been working on breaking 23 minutes and today I was 4 seconds short of breaking 22 minutes. My new record time of 22:03 gave me an average speed of 34.19kmph over 12.57km. I had been trying for 33kmph over 12.57km so to say the least I was [...]
  • Targeting Your Route’s Fastest And Slowest Speeds - For today’s cycle I used RunKeeper data to choose five of the fastest points on my cycle and set a new speed target for them. Here is are my results. 1. Start of my cycle route — Best time 39.8km, new target 45km, and did 44.5km today. 2. Straight away 1.1km point [...]
  • Burn Calories Biking - This is the way I Burn Calories Biking. Today I picked up a new personal best of 32:77kmph over 12.56km. I need to trim 6 seconds off my time of 22:59 to reach 33kmph. Here are my two cycle legs for today. Activity | Duration | Distance | Speed | Energy Burned Cycle: [...]
  • iPhone Mounted On Bicycle - I mounted my iPhone on my Bicycle. I am using RunKeeper to track my cycling route and this way I can pick up a few extra seconds. I have been loosing time by stuffing my iPhone back into my pocket after I start and then pulling it out just before [...]
  • How I Used RunKeeper To Get A New Personal Best - I carbed up early this morning around 5:30am, I did a small pre-cycle/protein about 1 hour before my cycle, and then about 30 minutes before I started I downed 2 cups of water. I was really to go at it and break 33kmph over a 12.5km cycle route. Here is [...]
  • How To Use RunKeeper To Cycle Faster - The 4 graphs at the bottom of this post are from data collected by iPhone app RunKeeper. The collected data is from my cycle route from home base to Springwater Forrest on 4 different days. The elevations data is a bit different for each leg cycle due to GPS data [...]
  • Working Out Burns Calories - I carbed up on potatos, extended the saddle by 1/2″, oiled my bike chain, left the backpack behind (1.6kg), faced the wind, and gave it my all. I not only did an average speed of 32.73kmph in my first leg of 12.54km but I also broke 23min on the same [...]
  • How To Burn Calories Working Out - Check out today’s workout and you will see how to burn calories working out. The links below will show my GPSed 25km cycle and 16km run on Google Maps with the elevation and speed. I did another fast first leg 12.68km cycle of 24:06 which is 31.57kmph. Yesterday I [...]
  • Burn Calories By Working Out - Well I am back home in Aylmer, Ontario and I burned 1,573 calories today by cycling 25km and running 15km. I do know how to Burn Calories By Working Out. Today I spend from 2:21pm to 5:64pm on my cycle and run. I did the first leg of my [...]
  • Calories Burned Working Out - Here is a list for today’s Calories Burned Working Out. Check out the links and it will show you my GPSed run on Google Maps, the elevation, and my speed. Here is my 1511 calorie workout for today. 25km cycle and 15km run. I recorded this workout with my iPhone using [...]
  • Springwater Conservation Area Trail - Springwater Conservation Area in Aylmer is a beautiful place to run. There are five places you can start your run and a number of different routes you can take. There are three entry points that have year rount access points. Two right off Conservation Line, one and one on John Wise [...]
  • Taking My Cycle Speed To The Next Level - I when to Reynold Cycle in London today to see about taking my cycling speed to the next level. At Reynold’s they recommended that I check out Multisport Zone to get a professional fit on my bike done. Multisport Zone is a new business in town that opened up on May [...]
  • Review Of Calorie Burn Biking Vs Running - Today I biked 25km and ran 10km. Here are my times. 12.59km Bike from home base to Springwater: 24:56 5km First lap of North/South shore trail: 34:29 5km Second Lap if North/South shore trail: 36:29 12.59km Bike from Springwater to home base: 31:09 In the above case I burned 2.2% more calories per minute biking [...]
  • Getting Closer To An Average Speed Of 32km/h - I pulled off a 24:01 on 12.59km on June 9th. Just a bit short of breaking 24 minutes. That works out to an average speed of 31.4km/h which is pretty good for me. Back on June the 2nd I did the 12.59k in 24:55. So all I need to [...]
  • Calories Burned Biking - These questions are from a comment I got on my Calories Burned in Running vs Cycling post. Question: Can you burn as many calories biking as running? Answer: For shorter distances you might be able to burn more calories running than biking but as soon as you get past 10 to 15 [...]
  • Calories Burned Cycling - This question is from a comment I got on my Calories Burned in Running vs Cycling post. Question: If you double the speed you cycle will you burn more than twice the calories since air resistance increases exponentially with speed? Answer: According to Dr. Edward Coyle of The University of Texas in [...]

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