Inconsistent Active Calorie counting when outdoor cycling

Thank you Joseph,

I'm using the Wahoo Element Bolt computer. It only records distance, cadence and speed along with the bicycle route. If you have an integrated heart rate sensor, it will also record those values (but I don't have that sensor).

The thrust of my question is this: If I use the Apple Watch Outdoor Cycle workout, the watch will record my heart rate actively, give me a distance summary, active calories and more. The Wahoo app for the same ride will give distance, speed and heart rate. For a 2.5 hour bike ride, the Apple Cycling app will give me credit for about 1400 active calories (the entire day's active calories will be around 1700). However, if I don't use the cycling app and only the Wahoo app, with a 2.5+ hour ride I get credit for a total of 1200 active calories for the entire day which includes the ride. So why does the Apple watch workout app count lower active calories when I don't record a workout as an outdoor cycle ride?

It seems to undercount active calories on my bike rides by about 500.

thanks

Joe

Thank you. I did look through all the suggestions you've provided. My Wahoo App is sending the workout data to the phone/watch. It may be that the Wahoo App just does not calculate active calories for outdoor rides. For a two-hour ride today, it reports 0 active calories. The watch gave me credit for active calories (about 600) based on my movement and heart rate, but this calculation seems to be different if I activate the Outdoor Cycling app on the watch.

Is it possible to configure the Outdoor cycling app not to count cycling distance? This might be a good workaround for me.

thanks

Joe