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Cyclingnews Fitness Q&A - December 28, 2011
Hi David,
Higher cadences are better for climbing so long as the rider has the skill and coordination to do them. Many riders don't have those, so they climb better at lower cadences. Skill and coordination for higher-power spinning require focused practice, which it sounds like you have done.
The exception to the rule that higher cadence is better is of course climbs so steep that you won't have the gears to climb them at higher cadences with sustainable power. If any races you'll enter have hills like that, lower gears are a potential solution, but on hills too steep to spin in gears that it makes sense to have on your bike given all the events you'll do, you'll have to reduce cadence. Train lower cadence if you'll have to race lower cadence. It will never be as efficient as higher cadence in terms of fatigue generated per distance traveled at a given power, but training will at least decrease the rate of fatigue when you are forced to lower cadence.
