How many calories burned per mile of swimming?

I know running is roughly 100 calories per mile, but what is the equivalent per mile of swimming?

Depends how many sharks there are.

Have a look at this 

Intrigued that Breaststroke takes more calories than freestyle, but as I can only manage 25m before being completely puffed out it's academic

To be honest I just googled it - but I've just input my normal open water swim time and distance (1500m in 32 minutes) and for my weight I burn 375 cal - which sounds about right. Perhaps operator error  ??

LMAO! You were absolutely right. I'd swapped it from imperial to metric halfway through inputting cause I didn't know distance in yards, not realising that I'd already put my weight in as 160lbs which then became 160kg, or 25 stone!

*chuckling at own stupidity*

And now doing it correctly, 850 cals sounds much more reasonable.

i think it counts a lap as down th epool and back...eg 50 metres.i was confusing laps with lengths

So according to that data from my last swim, I burned 440 cals per mile. I shall have to experiment with swimming faster and slower to see if that calorie count stays roughly the same. I know the '100 cals per mile' thing for running is only a very rough guide but it's useful. I'd like to have a similar rough guide for swimming. Will help me work out how many extra pies I can eat after a swim session!

But surely you will always be hungry after a swim but not always after a run.

swimming faster or slower wont make a lot of difference - weight / distance = energy required. i input my stats into that calculator and it came out just a little high, i normally burn around 78 - 82 cals per 400m - the calc said 100 so maybe a bit of leaway on either set of data and i would get about 90 so sounds realistic to me and my ameoba brain

being hungry after a swim is dehydration.

I was always starving after a swim but a couple of yrs ago when I was swiming before work I started taking a brew with me. Was perfect drinking temp after my swim and I noticed the hunger go. Trust me on this one. As a total pig I'm normally one to opt for food over drink!!

I must be doing it all wrong then!

I do think if you're hungry then having a drink, especially a hot/warm one, can kind of 'displace' the hunger for a while. Maybe I should drink tea after swimming instead of pigging out on lunch!

I also find swimming makes me feel hungrier for the rest of the day - more so than running for the same amount of time/calories. Also more tired at night. In terms of how I feel afterwards, I'd equate a 2 mile swim with about a 20 mile run, really. But the swim takes me just over an hour and the run takes anything from 3 and a half to 4 hours. I don't get it...

K9 wrote (see)

I've always scoffed breakfast lunch and several snacks by about 10:30 in the morning!

Sounds like me on an average day, LOL!

seren nos wrote (see)

i think it counts a lap as down th epool and back...eg 50 metres.i was confusing laps with lengths

I think I confuse laps with lengths too. I say I've done so many laps, meaning lengths. I didn't realise 1 lap = 2 lengths... D'oh!