Just to pile on...................Did my 2nd metric century this week. Nothing fancy. Just off season volume.
I almost shed a tear arriving at my fave brewery at mile 60. Arrived at 2:15, don't open till 3:00. I had forgotten. Not enough time to keep spinning and circle back. Womp womp womp.
I don't advocate this or glorify it, but worth mentioning a 2x hour record holder and 2x UCI world champ stripes wearer was a pretty avid alcoholic in his cycling prime. He had demons. But dude still smashed the hour record/tt/pursuit. And alcohol problems are 100000x worse than a cookie or two. Just to say, a treat won't kill ya.