Does commuting count as training?

RPM, you are saying once you are peaking, doing several all-out efforts a week, drop the intensity of your commutes, or reduce how many you are doing.

Makes perfect sense and marries up with what I have learnt from running schedules.

Reduce overall volume when the intensity is increased.

Amateurs that commute and do a training ride once a week in winter tend to carry on the same in summer except adding two or three high intensity sessions (such as racing CP on a tuesday and HH TL on a wednesday) and generally without any proper rest or active recovery, then wonder why they are a: not finishing in a higher placing than last year and b: feeling exhausted and demotivated by June.