Garmin edge calories count.

omri

I'm not sure if this is set up correctly or isn't giving the correct values since I'm not using the HR sensor (I've got the height/weight and age set up correct) but is it possible to burn 1304 calories over the 27.5km spin?

godtabh

omri wrote: »

I'm not sure if this is set up correctly or isn't giving the correct values since I'm not using the HR sensor (I've got the height/weight and age set up correct) but is it possible to burn 1304 calories over the 27.5km spin?

Depends.

You are not going to get the answer here though.

Beasty

Entirely possible, particularly if you are averaging around 3 km/h;)

The Garmin measure is a very rough guesstimate at the best of times, but will be pretty meaningless without something to estimate effort (either a HRM or powermeter)

ted1

Sounds more like you have it set for running than cycling

omri

ted1 wrote: »

Sounds more like you have it set for running than cycling

Its edge 800

Wishbone Ash

There's also a huge discrepancy between the Garmin and Strava when the activity is uploaded. Strava is usually half of what the Garmin gives.

(My Garmin 500 stops recording calories during a ride when it gets to 9,999).

doozerie

As per Beasty's post, your Garmin is entirely guessing based on insufficient information. If your heart rate (or power output) was at 100% or more of your max for the entire 27.5km ride then you would obviously have burned far more calories than if it was at 50% or less, but your Garmin has no idea of which end of the scale your effort was at.

It should have a record of the duration, maybe your cadence, the gradient throughout, and whether you stopped at any stage(s) during the ride, and combined with your age and weight it should be able to make a semi-educated guess at the effort needed, but the variation in generalised estimates of calories required for any task seem to vary a lot from one source to another so yet another cause for doubt - some sources just seem to pluck figures from the air. Plus, Garmin devices seem to lose the plot at times anyway, with occasional spikes in speed, cadence, elevation, etc., figures, and those are figures that should be simple to get right by comparison, so the likelihood of it getting calorie consumption right is perhaps always in doubt regardless of access to data.

G1032

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

(My Garmin 500 stops recording calories during a ride when it gets to 9,999).

LOL! Savage! What would you typically eat on a 250 - 300 km spin?

ednwireland

my garmin shows about half the calories when i have the heart rate monitor on

Luxman

ednwireland wrote: »

my garmin shows about half the calories when i have the heart rate monitor on

This^ Without a HRM the count will be estimated very high.

iwillhtfu

ednwireland wrote: »

my garmin shows about half the calories when i have the heart rate monitor on

Don't tell me that I apparently burned 3365 calories today over 80km. A nice dirty take away was my reward.

niceonetom

Think of a random number. Square it. Now divide it by the first number you thought of and then subtract the original number.

That's how much credence you should give to Garmin calorie counts, with or without HR data.