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You know, this might actually be the explanation. I was really only thinking of wearing the stuff while doing the thing or maybe immediately après--the actual Soffe Ranger Panties are pretty impractical for non-training wear due to lack of pockets and arguably bare upper thigh contact with common seating areas, so I for one would not wear them out and about any more than I would cycling kit.
I prefer a somewhat thinner one than industry standard, but as far as I can tell this is essentially unavailable in bib form.
Well, the usual finding (replicated here) is that energetically optimal cadence is substantially lower than freely chosen cadence, which is somewhat interesting in its own right, imo. But the interesting part of this paper specifically is that they took trained cyclists who presumably had had a reasonable amount of time to get used to pedaling and find a preferred cadence range (and I tend to believe that that shouldn't take all that long, it ain't rocket surgery--this is also tangentially addressed in the podcast), told them to lower their cadence quite a bit at the same power, and not only were various performance measures improved or unchanged but the subjects actually reported that they weren't working as hard. If they're not choosing their cadence based on what feels easiest, how are they choosing it? (insert some handwaving about being better able to respond to pace changes in mass start racing, etc.)
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