Originally Posted by
puppypilgrim
No guys. I was using gears correctly by changing gears to keep a constant cadence (80 and above). My comfortable cadence in in the 90s.
Your cadence says nothing of the gear you were in. 90 RPM at 80GI is faster than 90 RPM at 70GI.
If you kept a similar average cadence, that means you were in a shorter average gear. It's math.