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runners - best calories needed calculator!

olivia3263
olivia3263 Posts: 263 Member
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/nutritioncalculator.htm

If you're like me, you are confused by how many calories you burn when running and translating that to the goals of MFP. This seems to be a very reasonable calculator for runners based on the usual info plus how many miles you run per week.

Anyway, this seems very reasonable to me.

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  • agthorn
    agthorn Posts: 1,844 Member
    Calculator seems reasonable enough, except that 10-29 miles a week is a pretty big range to try to account for caloric need. I pretty much go by the rule of thumb of 100 calories per mile (works for most people) and it was only about a 60 calorie difference between MFP maintenance + exercise and the mid-range of 10-29 miles per week. But I'd rather account for the actual miles than a range.
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