First off, let me say that I'm not a roadie (yet, anyway). I have a standard Specialized Rockhopper that I was planning on taking out to the trails, but it was way to wet today here in Southwest Virginia. I didn't want to waste the whole day so I pumped the tires up and took it out on about a 20 mile ride through the hilly country roads around where I live. As I'm sitting here typing this, my legs are on fire and I think they just may fall off at any second. So my question is what do you guys do to recover after a longer ride, especially you guys who commute this kind of distance to work every day?

Also, I know it would be easier riding this on an actual road bike, but I don't have money just lying around at the moment, so another bike is kind of out of the question.