When and how to rest
I am wanting to get bigger mileage but I don't know how I should rest. In books it seems like they say to ride every day but take some days where you recover and just spin. I commute every day and its a 6 mile commute mostly downhill the way there and you guessed it uphill the 3 miles home. I do not get any days of rest unless its a holidy from riding my bike and just by commuting I'm doing about 250 miles a month. So should I take a few days of recovery days where I put it on a very low gear and spin to work and school and home?