I dont agree with the only recovery rides before your event. This is a good way to show up at your event flat. Instead, keep some intensity in your riding the week of the event, but keep the workouts very short so as not to introduce a training load and undue fatigue. Get plenty of rest, maybe even a day off completely 2 days before, but on the day before, hit all your riding intensities for short intervals to get the bodys systems online. Make the taper to the event about 10 days and you should be safe as far as keeping undue fatigue at bay. You will be as fit as you are going to get in the couple weeks before the race, so the key is to get to the race rested, refreshed, and ready to hammer. Too much rest will be nearly as detrimental as too little.