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Peleton type bikes

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  • aokoye
    aokoye Posts: 3,495 Member
    edited December 2018
    MeanderingMammal wrote: »
    aokoye wrote: »
    I don't doubt that it can be a great workout, cadence is just not something that I pay attention to when I train for cycling related things (not uncommon from what I can tell). I used to pay a lot of attention to HR, but my primary metric is power.

    I was doing the Swift Tour of London yesterday, and was conscious of this conversation.

    What I found was I was watching my cadence as it related to power output, essentially accounting for my own capacity as I approached key points in the event.

    More awareness than anything else, but it was helpful.

    The only time I've really found it - not helpful, but interesting, is on climbs. There's a lot of talk about maintaining X cadence on a climb. I didn't realize until I did a century last summer that what while the century that I did had an obscene amount of climbing, the hills were less steep but significantly longer than the ones near my house which made maintaining the cadence I always heard about actually possible for me.
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