kCals vs kJ - why do they differ so much?

Yes, the conversion is roughly 1:1 as a crude approximation. So 1000 kJ measured by a power meter is roughly 1000 calories.

this is the problem:

593 calories and 1458 kJ is a completely wacky and wrong conversion. As I understand it, Wahoo bike computers sometimes report wrong conversion, and then Wahoo syncs to Strava/TP/TR and unfortunately Strava and TrainingPeaks trust and use the wrong value.

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