Originally Posted by
DreamRider85
Well tomorrow I have several of things to do, I guess I'll just take it easy. Maybe go for a walk. My mind thinks I can do it, but my body wasn't letting me go hard today. Yesterday I felt invincible. I'm not really sore today and I'm feeling lighter, so it's weird how my body is still not up to it. I used to think that cycling was different from weight training, in the sense you weren't progressively overloading your muscles.
That last is true to some extent, though you'll read TdF riders reminiscing about how their legs were just dead after a hard stage. In aerobic endurance sports like cycling and long-distance running, it's the entire energy extraction and delivery system which gets tired. It takes many marathoners a month to recover.