Comments on: Bike the bird: how to burn your thanksgiving feast the right way http://bikenwalk.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/bike-the-bird-how-to-burn-your-thanksgiving-feast-the-right-way/ Creating healthy communities through biking and walking Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Matt / PBBT http://bikenwalk.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/bike-the-bird-how-to-burn-your-thanksgiving-feast-the-right-way/#comment-167 Matt / PBBT Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:28:15 +0000 http://bikenwalk.wordpress.com/?p=237#comment-167 The average American Thanksgiving dinner checks in at a gut-busting <a href="http://pbbt.org/average-miles-in-a-typical-thanksgiving-dinner/" rel="nofollow">4,000 calories</a>. Or, what the average American mail should eat in total in two days. An average cyclist will burn 25 to 33 calories per mile. In order to burn off just dinner today, I'll have to hit the road to the tune of 150 miles and more than nine hours. Ugh. No second helping of yams for me today. —Matt The average American Thanksgiving dinner checks in at a gut-busting 4,000 calories. Or, what the average American mail should eat in total in two days.

An average cyclist will burn 25 to 33 calories per mile. In order to burn off just dinner today, I’ll have to hit the road to the tune of 150 miles and more than nine hours.

Ugh. No second helping of yams for me today.

—Matt

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