Runners burn a bunch of calories, especially during pre-race training season. Let’s be honest. That’s one of the reasons most of us started the whole running pursuit. Then we discovered endorphins and the thrill of chasing the next personal record (PR).
Enter the Girl Scouts with their tantalizing roster of cookies. Here they come!
It’s that time of year again.
Here's a cookie-by-cookie calorie run-down. Look at the calorie counts for these popular Girl Scout Cookie varieties. Instead of listing “serving size,” I’m showing the “per cookie” calories. The serving sizes are up to you! (Amounts are approximations, based on package information.)
Let’s assume the average runner (or jogger or fitness walker) burns something in the neighborhood of 100 calories per mile (with the amount varying by body build, weight, fitness level, and plenty of other variables). You can easily do the math to determine how many miles you’ll need to do to burn off those cookie calories.
It’s definitely doable, if we don’t go overboard with cookie-binging. If we do, we’ll just have to train longer.
Hey, it’s for a good cause anyway. Crunch! Crunch!
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Image/s: Girl Scout -Pixabay, public domain. Cookie listing adapted by this user, including fair use product promo photos
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