Newbie training question on getting faster
I’m finding that 45 minutes to an hour is what I have time for and enjoy, just started cycling in August and trying to ride about every other day.
My question is around the idea of increasing performance by basically increasing my gears as I try to ramp my cadence into the same tempo as I was riding in lower gears previously.
Like, there’s a stretch of about a mile and it goes from flat, to slight incline, to a more severe incline.
So, right now, I have been trying to increase my cadence while I do the flat part in 6th gear, the slight incline in 5th, and the steeper part in 4rth.
It seems to be working and so I was thinking in a couple of more rides, I’d just increase the gear on each section to 7th, 6th, and 5th. And then just push to increase my cadence to the tempo I have now in the lower gears.
Is this too obvious? Lol
Just curious if it makes sense.