Originally Posted by
Iride01
Is that noticeably easier than what the rest of your riding is or was? If so, then I guess it's a recovery ride. Albeit a very short recovery ride. I thought they were 30 to 90 minutes in length. But some is probably better than none.
Aside from the heat, humidity, and soaking in sweat, it feels easy and definitely much easier than my 1 to 2 hour sessions the rest of the week.
It just feels nice to have a cold shower after some short but relatively intense workout. That's probably my shallow reason why I started doing it. No idea if it's improving the quality of training or making it worse.
I used to do nothing at all on rest days.