Originally Posted by
LittleBigMan
Or those "mornings after" that I had already said to myself the day before, "There's no way I'm riding tomorrow after all the riding I've already done this week," (and the next morning I felt like I was sculpted completely out of a huge granite block,) but after some coffee, I'm like, "Hey, I think I feel like riding this morning..."
Nothing says you have to go fast. When I get the dead legs, I just take 'er easy. Especially when I'm pushing my big, fat, wide-tire winter bike, sometimes it just doesn't seem worth the effort. I've gotten to the point where if I'm riding on a flat, and I look down at the computer and see a 14 or 15, I'm OK with that.
I'll still hit it pretty hard at least 3 days a week, but you have to have a recovery day.
About the only thing that makes me think "man, I don't want to be out there" is nasty cold rain like we had today. That was miserable.