Cadence Goals/Standards by Age
I was doing leg speed on the rollers this morning and was thinking about cadence goals/standards/handicaps by age and came up with this formula:
225 - racing age = cadence for your age
For example my racing age is 59 so 225 - 59 = 166. I hit 170 rpm so for this workout it was 102%.
I came up with 225 because 200rpm seems like a reasonable number that a 25 year old that isn't a freak of nature should be able to hit with training. Also it seems to hold with Junior riders that I race against on restricted gears. They seem to have no problem hitting 160-170 on the track.
Thoughts? Competing formulas or maybe you've read something somewhere. This is for fun, nothing scientific, just something to think about in between efforts on the rollers.
Last edited by Fast4 50; 03-09-18 at 12:34 PM.
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