Thursday, March 01, 2007

Running equivalents

If you run approx 12 minutes/mile, here is a list of foods and how long you need to run to burn them off (from the April 2007 issue of runner's world)

Banana (large) - 13 min
12 oz beer - 16 min
1 snickers bar - 30 min
Starbucks mocha frapuccino - 31 min
One cup cooked pasta with tomato sauce - 31 min
2 bean/cheese burrito - 40 min
1 cinnamon raison bagel with 2 teaspons of peanut butter - 41 min
1 scone - 45 min
2 slices of pizza hut cheese pan pizza - 58 min
2 pancakes with a tablespoon of butter and 1/4 cup maple syrup - 70 min
cheese burger with large french fries - 117 min

6 comments:

Suresh Sankaralingam said...

Interesting information...Any information on how it scales if the pace increases/decreases...

Meera Manohar said...

Guess we should just swallow air and get going :-)

Pora pokkula...thanni kudichaalum calories burn panna oda vendi irukkum polairukku *blink blink*

nourish-n-cherish said...

Thanks....you just killed my appetite. I thought I'll go and buy some brownie bites from Starbucks. But for that, I'd have to find something in San Jose and run there from SF. Humph!

Meera Manohar said...

Honestly, you can afford to have some brownie bites Saumya--trust me!! :)

sdpal said...

@Saumya:
Mano is correct..
@mano
1cup saadham + 3 karandi Saambhar + 1 muttai poriyal + konjam more (buttermilk))
Evlodaa naan odanum ?

Suresh Sankaralingam said...

moochhu muttara varaikum odanum....:)