Originally Posted by
Tulex
But do you know where you want to be for each situation? Isn't watching your cadence for any situation a way to verify that you are where you want to be? If your power tap died on a ride, would you be able to be about where you wanted based on using a known cadence for that situation? I get it's an end result. But when, in general, most people end up in the same range in a given situation, doesn't an end result basically equal a desired result?
Didn't you just say "to each his own?" To monitor your cadence for the purposes of changing it if its not in some sort of "idealized" zone is not "to each his own".