Quads and brevet training

[OakLeaf]

The body badly needs 1-2 weeks of rest so the muscles can heal.

+1 - with all the reading you've been doing, have you been periodizing your training at all? If you haven't had a week or two to back off, you're well overdue for it.


I'll be contrary on some of the rest of it though - although I've never done 200K when I was really counting, I've done 120 a handful of times and 100 more times than I can count, and I don't really think there's an enormous amount of difference there (and I can't imagine those last 5 miles would make all that much difference). Sure, if it's windy, it can be not. fun. at. all. But neither would 100 be (and I've done my share of 100s in the wind, close to crying by the end of them ). And my guess is you're more like me and more inclined to tough it out ... the one event that I signed up for and couldn't complete was the year my knee blew up on TOSRV, and I did cry that time.