Originally Posted by
gregf83
You don't need recovery days for the volume you're doing. Unless you want to get faster. Then you'll need to mix up your workouts with hard days and easy days. The reason you don't go for easy spins now is because you aren't doing hard days. There's very low risk of an overuse injury at under 200 mile/wk.
This is kind of what I was thinking, that my volume isn't too high to be dangerous. My caution comes from running and feeling great and just running every day and then ending up with a seized back or cranky knee. So I will keep pedaling away with abandon, till I end up popping over 200 regularly, OR it just hurts or ain't fun that day (though the fun part is what had me worried about overuse).