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MPG of a Human

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There are bike power meters that measure exactly the wattage one can put out. Why did the author bother calculating drag coefficients and such?

A 40km time trial takes about an hour to finish, at about 250W sustained ( 250W/h = 900kJ ), or about 22.5kJ = 5.3 kCal per km.

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