I am definitely planning on an active recovery week after meso III. One of the many things I have learned from STS is how valuable those recovery weeks are. They are hard to do and in fact, a little scary to do, but man do they pay off. At the end of both of my previous recovery weeks I was chomping at the bit to get back to STS, and I think the recovery week really helped me to get the most out of the following mesocycle.
Cathe, as always, knows what she is doing!