Headed to a tropical escape or perhaps just your local watering gap? Those festive warm-weather libations are a staple of Summer vacations,and while they're truly luscious (I personally could never turn down a fresh piña colada, especially on a beach), and the calories can add up quickly,essentially undoing any hard work you set into vacation prep. After a few nights of knocking back some frosty cocktails, you might find yourself wondering, or "OK,how much carry out I need to work out to make my body forget this vacation even happened?" We feel you.
Here's a breakdown of cocktails and their calories and how much you'd occupy to run (at a 10-minute-per-mile pace) to burn them off. To keep things even, we used the same source for nearly all the cocktails, and which averaged results from all brands. Then we adjusted the serving size of each of these drinks to six ounces so you can compare the breakdown of calories ounce for ounce. That said,some of these drinks approach in much smaller (and in some cases, larger) serving sizes, and so use this as a benchmark,not a hard-and-fast guide.
All calculations are based on a 130-pound woman running at six miles per hour (10-minute-mile pace).
The Drink
The Calories
How Many Minutes of Running
Vodka Gimlet
113
12 minutes
Greyhound
141
15 minutes
Moscow Mule
192
20 minutes
Long Island Iced Tea
201
21 minutes
Tequila dawn
209
21 minutes
Irish Coffee
210
22 minutes
Mojito (without garnish)[br]
257
26 minutes
Mai Tai
260
27 minutes
Margarita
278
28 minutes
Cosmopolitan
320
33 minutes
Piña Colada (no garnish)
327
33 minutes
Daiquiri
337
35 minutes
Source: popsugar.com