Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
It's easy to over-analyze this stuff, but if you don't feel like riding, it's probably not a bad idea to quickly check in with yourself and think about why you feel that way. Could be your ride has gotten stale, could be there's something unpleasant happening on your rides, could be you've got a nagging injury, could be you're coming down with a cold...it's never a bad idea to listen to what you're feeling, even if you don't always do what your feeling seems to want you to do.
+1.
Take a few days off, recover physically and mentally, you'll come back stronger afterwards. Even the TDF schedules days off during the race.
You also don't have to go cold turkey. I cut back for awhile. I was riding 100-150 miles a week, than I went on vacation for 10 days. When I came back, I just wasn't into all the miles and I was also nursing a lingering hamstring problem. It wasn't a severe injury just some tightness and lack of stregnth. So I cut back to 75-120 a week for a few weeks.
It was a good respite and now I'm back to 100-150 miles a week.