[Scott Johnston]

Rob:

Thanks for writing in and sorry to be slow replying.  I’m not familiar with the Welsh 3000 route but see that it is about 40km and 3000m vertical gain and loss that can take most people 2-3 days.  Your screen shot is a bit hard to read.  Correct me if I am wrong but I think I can see that most of your weeks of training are under 10 hours.   We have a general rule of thumb that you should be comfortable doing at least your event’s total distance and vertical in a normal training week.  This is not to say that you won’t be able to complete your event but it may a struggle and will significantly drain you  if you do not have the base to handle that amount of work in 7 days.

Since I can’t read what the volume of week 3 was I can’t really comment your thought on how to progress.  I can say these things:  You need to consider how you have been recovering.  Was week 3 tough?  You will want to taper.  The length of taper is going to be dependent on how tired you are getting from the current training load.   I’m afraid that without know quite a lot more about you and your training it is impossible to give any kind of detailed training advice.

Scott