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My trick for forcing myself to ride a recovery ride is to keep it in the small chain ring (34 - a compact). And no routes with challenging hills. Before I made this self-imposed rule, I would try to ride a recovery ride and then find myself hammering despite myself.
Recovery rides come either after a particularly hard ride or after a string of normal rides. I ride hard or at least seriously a maximum of 5 days/week - Saturday and Sunday, a tough hill climbing ride on Tuesday, a medium club ride Wednesday (sometimes ridden hard, sometimes ridden easy, but always fairly short), and a fast club ride Thursday. Monday and Friday are either days off or small chain ring rides of no more than 25 miles (and usually 15-20).