Looking back on my recovery week

Well, I made it through another recovery week. While there are times when I'm definitely ready for recovery weeks (weeks where the amount of time I spend on the bike and the effort is generally lower), they make me nervous. One of the things I originally got into cycling for was to lose weight, and I have done a good job with that. Having been heavy though, and not all that long ago, I have somewhat of a fear of putting weight back on. So when I go from riding 15 hours a week to 9 hours a week as I do in recovery weeks, I become very unsure of balancing my calorie intake to what I'm burning through exercise. This week though I must have done pretty well as my average weight this week was the same as last week. I've actually been within a pound one way or another for the last two months.

Any way. I sort of didn't quite follow the spirit of a recovery week. Started out alright, following the workout plan as assigned. The 'trouble' came on Thursday when I was primarily supposed to be doing Endurance Miles with some corner sprints. I ended up doing a couple extended threshold+ efforts.

Lesson Learned: Do not do hard threshold+ efforts two days before you are supposed to do a 30 minute Time Trial.

Needless to say, having not learned this lesson ahead of time, my schedule 30 minute TT on Saturday did not go so well. Between not having recovered from the hard efforts on Thursday and likely starting out too hard, I didn't make it through 30 minutes and the time I managed had a lower average power than the efforts done on Thursday.