Originally Posted by skydive69
Well, actually they are both correct - just different in philosophical approach. One says that your average cadence is the average of your cadence when actually pedaling. That is the one I like, but unfortunately Cateye is of the belief that your average cadence is simply the average of the cadence that you do including coasting at zero cadence. I am more interested in knowing what I average when I am actually pedaling which is Polar's approach to the measurement.
The cateye way is like, say, calculating avg spd from total time spend on a ride. That is if you left home at 7am and ride to work 10km away and come back at 7pm, total RT is 12hour which you divide by the distance 20km and avg spd will be approx 1mile per hour.