Interested in hearing people’s thoughts on what to do/not do during the evenings of a multi-day ride.
I’ve always had success with a cold bath/shower/pool to reset the leg muscles, and everyone knows beer is the best recovery beverage available, but anything else? I heard regular old pain medication like Panadol/Nurofen works wonders.
This is only for a two day ride, so employing a physio is probably not feasible.
Once did 2500km over roughly 25 days with a few rest days on top of that, with 30kgs of bike and gear. Best advice I can give is if your legs feels sore and stiff the morning after, warm up extemely slowly. At least half an hour to get up to full pace. They wont be sore anymore once properly and gently warmed up. If anyone wants to run off the front early try to convince them its a bad idea. Proper stretching when finishing the ride and a bit of sitting on the ground will help suppleness and flexibility. I think I went a week without sitting on a chair for the fact there were none.