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  • Both are good for different reasons. Indoors you are pedaling 100% of the time, outdoors you tend to coast at least some of the time. So indoors is more intense in the time you spend doing it. Indoors is very regulated in terms of resistance and cadence, outdoors is random, you have to react to whatever the route throws at…
  • A lot of times the FIRST place people notice weight loss is in your face. Go find a picture of yourself a few months back and see if you don't see the difference. Muscle weighs more than fat, so that can completely offset what you've done on the scale.
  • Mountains of Misery, near Blacksburg VA. 103 miles, about 11,000 feet of climbing, most of it at the end. Hope to be 25 lbs lighter this year. It's Memorial Day Sunday, so I have a little time, and training always takes off some.
  • FWIW, I'm 6'3" and 240# (clydesdale), and ride 4,000+ miles a year on the road. Garmin 305 HRM. I often see in excess of 1,000 calories per hour, last night on the trainer working a Carmichael Training Systems video (intense) I rode 18.5 miles in 62 minutes, pushing a moderate gear w/ ~90 cadence, HR average 133, said I…
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