Originally Posted by
sprince
I'm really going out on a limb here, but my own personal experience tells me that a 24 hr bike ride is atypical.
My "large" ride recovery is milk, water, sleep, salmon, eggs (mostly egg whites), milk and short recovery rides at about 50% effort until I feel ok again. But I'm also well past the half century mark, and if I had a masseuse on staff, I'd definitely take advantage of it, recovering or not.
Not really that atypical. I guess it depends on your riding friends. I know quite a few people who are getting ready to ride a Fleche, which is by definition a 24 hour ride. 300k and 400k rides which total thousands of participants every year can be in the 24 hour category.