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Calories burned running and walking

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The number of calories burned while running and walking depends primarily on your weight and the slope of the surface you're traveling on<ref name="energycostslopes"/>. Going uphill obviously uses more calories than the flat, and going downhill uses less calories for moderate slopes but as the slope gets stepper, the calories start to increase again. Your efficiency also has an impact on the calorie cost; for instance Paula Radcliffe improved her [[Running Economy]] by nearly 20% over 10 years. Running on the flat uses about 0.63 Calories per pound per mile, or in metric, 0.86 Calories per Kg per Km. Walking uses fewer Calories than running at 0.4 Calories per pound per mile, or in metric, 0.6 Calories per Kg per Km.Below are tables for sample weights to save you the math. The calculations for slopes are a bit more complex and are shown with the tables further down this page.
=Calories burned on the flat (Pounds & Miles)=
=The effect of slope=
[[File:Energy cost of running.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The energy cost of running for various slopes.]]
[[File:Energy cost of walking.jpg|right|thumb|200px|The energy cost of walking for various slopes.]]
The cost of running on a slope is given by this equation
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''''''119'''.6'''
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==References==
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<ref name="energycostslopes">Energy cost of walking and running at extreme uphill and downhill slopes http://jap.physiology.org/content/93/3/1039.full</ref>
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