Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator v1.0
           Freeware (c) 1995 by Greg Kondrasuk
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Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator is an OS/2 PM program that 
calculates the number of calories expended on a bicycle ride.
It is based on an article in the May 1989 issue of Bicycling
Magazine, pp. 100-103.  It provides a good estimate of the
number of calories burned based on time, distance, rider weight,
wind speed and direction, drafting, and climbing.  It is not 
meant to be a completely accurate calculator and playing with
the input values will reveal that the equations break down for
very small and very large average speed values.  Calorie
expediture values seem very reasonable for average speeds
between 5 and 30 mph.

The interface is very straight-forward--click on the various
radio and spin buttons to set the values appropriate to your
ride and press the Calculate button.  The results appear at the
bottom of the screen.  

All radio and spin buttons will display a help message at the 
bottom of the screen when the mouse is place over them.  
Several entry fields are dependent on the course type of the 
ride and any irrelevant radio and spin buttons are disabled
based on that setting.

The program defaults to English units, but can toggle and convet
between English and Metric via the Units menu on the menubar.


This program is my first with Hockware's excellent VisPro REXX
3.0.  Highly recommended!

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions, feel free to
email me at gregk@edp.net.

Enjoy!