how hard is it for everyone to get on that bike monday morning and commute to work after a 70+ mile ride on sunday?

i was so tempted to drive to work but i decided to just take my time and go a bit slower pace than usual this morning.

No problem at all. I often do 100 milers on sundays and never had a problem with getting up early on monday and riding to work. The most important thing is good nutrition, hydration and mental attitutde.

and rest. Make sure that immediately following a hard ride on a Sunday like that you get proper nutrition and then get a good night's sleep. If you don't give yourself those necessities Monday's commute will be more of an ordeal than a nice recovery ride.

i think that's what it is. i did get proper food after the ride and all but only got 7 hours of sleep.

i went on a 50 mile casual speed ride with some decent hill climbing with a group. then when i got home i decided to go for a time trial for 28 miles. i was pretty much out the whole day and i think the exhaustion from being out all day just kicked in.

...so hard, I just called in sick, lol.

... so hard, that i telecommuted, in my case

But it was the best choice, my probikekit order just came in and nobody would have been able to receive it if i were at work

Commuting is not a race... you have to rest, take it easy on the way in if you had a long weekend. I know I personally get fatigued earlier in the week if I don't rest, and I take shorter routes when I know I've had a long mileage weekend.

Once a month , I just take one day off and be lazy all day. After commuting and running errands 5 days a week, sometimes I will take a saturday off and just stay home a be lazy and do absolutly nothing all day, then on sunday morning I am off on my long distance ride.

Monday's commute is the easiest, because I haven't ridden since Friday and I really want to get back at it.

I don't know how people have time to ride a bike on the weekend, I've got way too much crap to do. I have to plan my day around when I have daylight, saving indoor tasks for after the sun goes down.

i make time to ride on the weekends. especially sunday. if i have to do something or hangout with friends then i do all that on saturday.

The thing is, I love to ride and there are way more interesting rides around here outside of my commute. I make time to bike on the weekends, even if that means getting up at 5am to sneak in a ride before everyone else gets up.

This is my second week of commuting, previously this spring I had been riding only on weekends (Leaving under cover of darkness in the morning and returning sometime after breakfast) and spinning on the trainer during the week, after the kids were down (cutting into my beauty sleep).

Then something - an epiphany? You guys? I don't know what - but something clicked in my head and said, "You got it all backwards, mate," and I decided to start commuting by bike. Now I can get in up to 210 miles per week (depending on how many days I want to ride), I am going to bed at a decent hour during the week, and on the weekends I am both next to my wife when she wakes up () and I am eating breakfast with my kids instead of being the 'missing man.'

Everybody wins, and lives happily ever after, right?

Anyway, in relation to the original post, I know that this is only my second week (And I didn't ride 70 miles yesterday) but I was up like a shot this morning.

What a great feeling, knowing that any day I want I get to ride my bike!

wolfchild took the words right off my keyboard. :-)

Ride safe,

Jeff

"Make time" assumes that's even possible. The only way I could have enough time would be to get up really early, and I think that would destroy my health since I'm already shorting myself on sleep all week. Saturday and Sunday are the only days that I get 7 or more hours, and by then I really need them.