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It also helps if you don't view it as training. Like the DD, you're riding should be relaxed. Ride out to a pub, sit down and have a meal, and a pint if you fancy, ride home a slightly different way. What would have been a hard 40+ mile training ride becomes a 60+ mile day out. You'll be tired at the end but you won't be knocked out for the next day when you should go out for a least a short jaunt, if for no other reason than to loosen up stiff muscles. After that its only another 40-50 miles for the DD, and they come pretty easy at night, even though it'll seem hard at the time.