I had the last 4 days off work for the Holiday and was able to sleep later each day and have zero stress. I feel great and about to enter a recovery week next week. I really don’t want a recovery week. Should I;
A. Do it as prescribed?
B. Do the workouts, but increase intensity?
C. Skip it and move the next weeks intervals up into this week?
Thanks, Tim
I’m in a similar situation, haven’t done anything hard since Monday, missing the last two interval days of the last week of the block, with a recovery week starting tomorrow.
I’m probably going to do a hard Zwift ride tomorrow, and something hard on Wed, then see how I feel. Probably a short recovery over three or four days over the weekend, then back to the regular schedule.
If you did not ride… I’d count this week as recovery and get back to training. If you did your normal training, just enjoyed time off work I’d take the recovery week.
I did the bike workouts except easy 60 minutes on Friday.
Yes, just extra time off work ao slept more and feel great.
FTFP
I think I’ve finally figured out your response. Follow The Fncking Plan.
Did I get it right? Lol
Lol
Yep
OK, i misinterpreted your post, and read into it that you had ridden less. Since you’ve done the work, do what the others have said: obey the plan.
-Tim
I usually don’t feel like taking a rest week after three weeks but I think most of would have better training if we did. Better to stair step into fitness and have more weeks where you are fresh. Otherwise, you train for six or eight weeks and then crash and burn.
I agree with the everything said here!
Exaaaacctly.
This is setting you up to NAIL the next block 
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Training makes you weaker, recovery makes you stronger
If you aren’t going to stick to the plan (which - as others have already said - you probably should), then I propose another option for consideration.
D Do the workouts, but increase the duration (of some of them)?
If the recovery workouts are 60 minutes, extending (some of) them to 90 minutes at the same intensity wouldn’t be a bad thing.