Anyone else come across this
I did my usual 10 mile training route today
I’m pretty new to cycling so experimented with a higher cadence for a change
so far my fastest time on my training route has been done in a fairly high gear pushing hard with burning quads at about 75-82 cadence. However at the end my legs were heavy and I felt knackered going on to the run stage.
Today I kept my cadence at 90-95 in a lower gear which felt much easier and my legs were so full of energy at the end I felt like I could of sprinted the run leg. However my avg bike time was 2mph slower I wasn’t able to keep a 90-95rpm in the higher gears.
I know continued practice and training will help but what do most tri/duathletes do?
[font="]Push higher gears at a lower cad then practice getting used to running with heavy legs? or train in the high cad at a lower gear and make the time lost up on the run leg?[/font]
I did my usual 10 mile training route today
I’m pretty new to cycling so experimented with a higher cadence for a change
so far my fastest time on my training route has been done in a fairly high gear pushing hard with burning quads at about 75-82 cadence. However at the end my legs were heavy and I felt knackered going on to the run stage.
Today I kept my cadence at 90-95 in a lower gear which felt much easier and my legs were so full of energy at the end I felt like I could of sprinted the run leg. However my avg bike time was 2mph slower I wasn’t able to keep a 90-95rpm in the higher gears.
I know continued practice and training will help but what do most tri/duathletes do?
[font="]Push higher gears at a lower cad then practice getting used to running with heavy legs? or train in the high cad at a lower gear and make the time lost up on the run leg?[/font]