Commuting - Slow days

I keep telling myself that I'll do a slow day into work, sometime, as I hear that this is good advice for recovery from a hard ride. I can't seem to do it, though. I get out on the road, and the desire to keep going faster, either to avoid an issue with autos or to make the next light spurs me on.

So, how do you make sure you take it easy on a recovery day?

Spin, spin, spin. Girl watch. Think about baseball....

Go for an even bigger ride the day before. Quite often on my recovery days, I'm just too damn sore to ride fast.

echo chris L.

i just went for my slowest ever commute, if not ride, this year. 20km/h avg over 10km, lol. i wanted to go faster but just couldn't. did a nice 88km yesterday... so yeah, a hard day will automatically make the next day a recovery day :p

sd

Hmmm. I guess I'll have to start taking longer rides.

Even when I'm a bit sore, I don't feel so debilitated that I cannot ride quickly on my 10mi/17km commute.

Listen to Jim Croce while riding.

It worked, but it took longer than I expected.

I did a 20 mi ride after work on Monday, with some pretty good hills which I had to grind up in the granny gear. Tuesday was a normal commute in the morning, but Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning were both slow, since I just couldn't get the speed up. I guess I just wasn't working hard enough on the hard days to really justify slow days.

Just do it. :D

You don't have to go fast to enjoy it. It's suprising, really.