Originally Posted by
big john
Your schedule is like mine except if I did 60 and 4000 feet on a Thursday I think I would not recover in time for the Saturday hammer session. I've always been ok with doing a hard effort on Wednesday then little or no riding until Saturday. Years ago I had a job where they allowed me to take every Wednesday off so that worked out. Now I'm retired and trying to get back to it.
I'm always total toast on Monday.
Based on my experience if you make yourself do the Saturday ride you will eventually be able to do it well. I do admit that I am sometimes not fully recovered and have been dropped but after doing it a few times I get a lot better. The Sunday ride is actually the hardest for me as I am pretty wasted from Saturday. I am getting better each week though.