It would help to have quantitative estimates of the magnitude of this effect including as a function of distance with credible sources for those estimates.
In response to the question of calories burned, both with pedestrian activities (running, jogging, walking) and biking, calories burned are a function of distance times mass.
The stated goal was not to duplicate a realistic anchorage, but to measure damage as a function of distance from the blast center, at as many different distances as possible.
