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Originally Posted by Hermes
+1 My coach continues to have me work on pedaling technique on recovery rides and include one leg pedaling drills. My typical recovery ride is warmup, 4 minutes 100, 3 minutes 110, 2 minutes, 120, 1 minute 130 and 30 seconds 140, rest 5 minutes and repeat. The goal is getting comfortable riding at 140 rpm.
Whoa! I thought 110 was pretty quick. I'm going to have to give this work out a try tomorrow.

I do agree it's trainable. I read something that got me interested in a higher cadence (actually just paying attention to cadence) so I got my first computer really just for the cadence function. I worked on keeping and being comfortable spinning at 95 to 105 and really got to like the feel of it. This was in the flats. Moved to the rolling hills of the Piedmont and starting spending some time in the Southern Appalachians and found my cadence varied depending on the inclination but that high cadence spin training paid off for helping build up momentum going down preparing to go up. When I was doing a long climb I never looked at my cadence. I just worked on keeping my self just the other side of blowing up. As the season progressed (and I lost weight) I'm sure my cadence and speed increased. Trying to keep the same cadence on the flats as you move up to higher gearing is great strength training for me. I'll establish a comfortable spin and then click it up a notch and watch those RPMs and hold it til it's burning. Recover and repeat. Bump it up two notches, etc.
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