Congrats and welcome .... regarding recovery, protein to assist in recovery, generally soon after a ride.

And rest. In your exuberance to start you could overdo it and burn out, especially at 10 miles (I'm assuming that's one way so it's a 20 mile day?).

Me personally, it's taken me a lot of time to get to the point where I could commute back to back to back ... in fact, this week was the first time I've ever gone four straight days commuting. My commute is 12 miles one way, so 24 miles round trip. Today my legs are/were pretty tired no doubt. I probably would try for the full week tomorrow but I have an appointment that's an hour away in the morning.

But, I crossed over 1,400 miles for the year today ... feels pretty good and I'm leaps healthier than I was before