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Has anyone worked to increase their cadence and benefited from it?
I'm following one of the plans on Strava, and although I take everything on there with a pinch of salt, I noticed that it recommends doing climbing intervals at 85-90rpm and 'power intervals' (max efforts uphill or on the flat) at 95+ rpm. I did my intervals yesterday on an 8% climb, and pedalled as fast as I could while sustaining a 'good' power, but only managed to average at most 73rpm over any interval.
I think I'm naturally a slow cadence climber, and over 80rpm is probably unrealistic for me, but now I'm wondering if cadence drills would be helpful to increase it a bit.