Third ride to work today, other than my harrowing adventure this morning (read about it in the dogs thread). Last week was the first 2 rides, 2 days in a row, my legs where shot the ride home the second day, I rested 2 days over the weekend and when I got on the bike this morning I was still feeling it a little. My plan was to ride at a slow steady place, it didn't work out that way. I figured the ride home was going to be torture, I was happy to find my legs felt pretty strong. Going into the wind I was able to power through w/o having to shift down more than one gear. I could have gone at least a couple more mile when I pulled into the driveway.
Bottom line is I'm seeing improvement already.