Quote Originally Posted by mr brightside View Post
I've found that spinning up the pedals in a low gear going uphill is closer to running uphill than just grinding away at a low cadence. It feels better too.
Glad to hear you've discovered this; running is a higher cadence activity, (you can't run well at low cadence, but you can pedal a bike as slowly as you want), so I would expect spinning the pedals to feel better for a runner. It saves your fast twitch muscles, too