Originally Posted by
Carbonfiberboy
I'm with you. Keep gearing up and accelerating. You don't know how fast you can go until you try. Just holding a high cadence is limiting unless you're riding in a group, in which case it's fine. I do long solo intervals during which I hold a high cadence up hill and down. I think that's good training, but that's not how I roll when I want to go.
I have a 13.4mi course with one big hill and plenty of false flats. Every gear one my 2x14 is used at some point. Cadence is approx 65-85 in this course.
Then there is the flat 4mi that is hammer-til-you-cant. That's a fun one where I will use that upper end cadence of 85 and keep stretching for the next gear.
