Originally Posted by
mrteeth
Do you think you were expending more effort because you were doing intervals (fast/slow/fast/slow) while he wasn't? Or maybe he was expending more effort because he was doing intervals (spin/hammer/spin/hammer) while you weren't?
Well, I ride by cadence, so I was pretty much maintaining. The variation was 70-80 on the climbs and 80-90 on the decent. From what I noticed, he was doing pretty much the same thing.
Not everyone races each other every time they ride.