"Never do intervals when there is a group ride and never do a group ride when there is a race".
That's my own personal quote on training.
I wish I could just race 3 non-consecutive days a week and recover the rest of the time. That'd be the ultimate racing life.
Maybe when the kids are grown, I'll go back to Belgium one summer. Race Mon-Wed-Sat and sit at the cafe's talking politics the other four days. Man, they have it made.