Is this leisure cycling or mountain cycling?

graelwyn
graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I cycle a lot and where I live there are a lot of hills, some steep and some just long and gradual, mixed in with fairly flat country lanes, so it is a bit like interval training I suppose in the sense that it changes from easy to difficult to moderate to easy etc every 2-5 minutes.

I do not though whether to consider this as mountain biking or as leisure cycling in the exercise calculator because I don't go especially fast (10-12 mph on the flat), but the hills obviously don't seem too much like leisure cycling to me and I certainly feel as if I am using far more calories than what the leisure cycling option gives me.

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  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    Bump.
    Anyone?
  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    no-one knows, I guess.
  • JustTracyB
    JustTracyB Posts: 42
    That's leisure cycling. Although you are working fairly hard, and the hills do suck...Mountain biking is like trail riding. Dirt trails, and hard to maneuver hills, dips, turns.
  • treetop57
    treetop57 Posts: 1,578 Member
    Why not log it as light (10-12 mph) or mderate (12-14) bicycling?
  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    Thanks, have logged it as moderate cycling to take into account the hills. Other sites give around 800 calories for 2 hours without hills, so I am guessing I am using close to 500 an hour.
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