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?
I do monitor my cadence for some intervals, it's a quick way to know what the forces are. But the cadence is not the important thing, it's just a side-effect. It's like measuring that a star exists by the gravitational distortion of the light.
The point that is trying to be made is that saying "ride at x cadence" doesn't mean anything unless you have some experience to put that in context.