February 2026 Activity Challenge

[Leon Nash]

My January challenge was about the amount of walking exercises so my burned kilocalories was lower than usual. And this challenge is almost identical to the kilocalories burned last month.

I wish there was some kind of setting for the challenge difficulty, now it seems a bit too often to be "do pretty much the same as last month".

 

[venom600]

I'm sorry, but someone please school me on the term "kilocalories". The prefix "kilo" usually means thousand. They surely can't mean that you are supposed to burn 433 thousand calories...

 

[Leon Nash]

From our (future) friend Gemini:

A standard scientific "calorie" is extremely tiny—it is only enough energy to heat one gram of water. If we used this unit for exercise and food, the numbers would be huge and unmanageable; a single jog would burn 300,000 calories and a sandwich would be 500,000 calories.

To keep the numbers simple (like 300 and 500), we count in batches of 1,000, which is a kilocalorie (kcal). Essentially, whenever we say "calorie" in daily life, we are actually using a shorthand for "kilocalorie."

 

[goldmac2006]

easy one for me. I get to take a break from running a lot.

 

[webbuzz]

Pretty easy.

 

[phessler]

Should be doable: