Relentless I guess. That sounds like a sensible plan.

I’m not sensible so rode a 200km Audax today (windy as!) and am riding the Bearbones 200 next weekend.

Will be omitting the intervals as haven’t done many (any) for a while. But would be a good way to sharpen up. Those climbs are long and steep in places. Having a bit of top end sharpness helps

I’ve done Relentless twice, once solo (wrists failed at 15hrs) and once as a pair.
3 weeks to go, i personally recommend very little in the way of longer rides, base should be well established by this stage of the season, and there’s little you can achieve other than fatigue in 3 weeks.

My advice would be to spend 3 weeks fine tuning. It’s not a course where the traditional advice of pacing yourself and avoiding efforts above threshold works. Last two years its been a really hard course with multiple steep sections that force you into the red. Work on making efforts and recovering from them, and knowing what foods you can tolerate when being forced to work harder than you’d ideally like to.

If you’ve a decent base then as fifeandy says, do some fine tuning. A session of really hard hill reps this week and next week, just the two sessions, will help. At such short notice there’s not a lot of time for much else. Any other rides should be zone 1 or zone 2 at a max

Harsh!

There is actually some good advice there though. Make sure you’ve got somewhere comfortable and warm* to take a break

*Last two years have reached low single figures. Steep climbs make you sweat, and when you stop you can get get chilled really quickly.

Be careful. Stay too long and you won’t go back out. You’ll get comfy, start feeling sleeping then – well thats it.

lol.

you are going to break!!! 😈