Originally Posted by
DaveLeeNC
This may not be a cadence selection thing at all (the highest slopes correlating with the lowest cadence). It is quite likely that these guys just don'e have a gear that will allow them to climb a 15-20% grade at 100 rpm.
dave
Good point dave...or...these guys were on triples and since they live and die by data, they deliberately slowed their cadence to throw off the competition.