willhub
Guru
Hi.
Well not many people who know me think of me as a spinner, but over the past months I seem to have gone through a transition. Started doing some threshold training on the turbo, and doing a few spin classes, and my cadence has shot up.
Normally, my cadence was around 85-89 average over a ride, it's now between 94 and 100, I did a training ride last week, 40 miles hard, averaged 97.
I don't know if that's good or not, there is a Strava segment just coming out of a village near me, and when I go for that, my cadence is around 107, and I'm thinking to myself, that seems too fast, so I adjust gear to find I'm doing between 94-97, and I'm finding my legs can't take it anymore, I start to slow down and the legs are just in agony.
The other problem is, going up hills, it's slowed me down on hills, I'm off up a 10-20% hill in 38-25 and thinking "I want to pedal faster", but can't as I've ran out of gears, and the such low cadence kills me.
I don't know what to do.
Should I stick at it? Maybe even try raise my cadence even higher
Should I try to lower my optimal cadence to around 95?
Should I practice and practice at hills so I am able to cope at higher speed/ pedalling faster
I just can't decide if me changing to spinning was a good move, all I know is I really don't feel comfortable at anything under 95 now, just feels like super grinding to me.
Well not many people who know me think of me as a spinner, but over the past months I seem to have gone through a transition. Started doing some threshold training on the turbo, and doing a few spin classes, and my cadence has shot up.
Normally, my cadence was around 85-89 average over a ride, it's now between 94 and 100, I did a training ride last week, 40 miles hard, averaged 97.
I don't know if that's good or not, there is a Strava segment just coming out of a village near me, and when I go for that, my cadence is around 107, and I'm thinking to myself, that seems too fast, so I adjust gear to find I'm doing between 94-97, and I'm finding my legs can't take it anymore, I start to slow down and the legs are just in agony.
The other problem is, going up hills, it's slowed me down on hills, I'm off up a 10-20% hill in 38-25 and thinking "I want to pedal faster", but can't as I've ran out of gears, and the such low cadence kills me.
I don't know what to do.
Should I stick at it? Maybe even try raise my cadence even higher
Should I try to lower my optimal cadence to around 95?
Should I practice and practice at hills so I am able to cope at higher speed/ pedalling faster
I just can't decide if me changing to spinning was a good move, all I know is I really don't feel comfortable at anything under 95 now, just feels like super grinding to me.