The importance of a proper recovery technique

Set off early Saturday morning, to catch the train from Guildford. Not a good start, it was raining so turned on the radio to cheer myself up, only to hear the sounds of Travis bemoaning "Why does it always rain on me". It was a good train journey, met a guy on his way back to Yeovil after 4 months Snowboarding in Austria, lucky sod.
By the time I left Yeovil the weather was great, sunshine with a light tail wind. Meant to stop in Salisbury, but like I said before it's hard, so my first stop was just before Winchester, hence the photo. It really was uneventful, other than I was going well, my average speed was up and increasing. It's a long haul out of Winchester and up to Four Marks.
There is a debate about the benefit of cycling helments, I do wear one and any doubts as to whether it's worth the discomfort or not were dispelled on this trip, a car went past me at some speed and a stone pinged of my hat, I'm glad it was not my forehead it hit!
This second photo is of what was a very welcome sight, only 17 miles to go. The run home was good from here mostly flat and no incidents. I was very pleased with my time, well under six hours for 107 miles, making my target of less than 15 hours for 240 miles seem attainable. Felt very elated when I got back and through the evening, but on Sunday I was really washed out and on Monday I noticed I had lost four or five pounds. Should have done a Turbo session on Monday, but for the first time felt I just couldn't do it. The problem seems to have been that I did not take in enough fluid and easy carbs after the ride.
Back to normal today, well as normal as I ever get!