Hi Lynda, I have a few questions about the 100 mile PR plan:

1 – I've not specifically done a 100 mile race before, but have finished (and had top tens and occasionally won) 6 hour, 12 hour, 24 hour solo and multi day backpacking races. Is there any specific requirement in the PR plan to have done a 100 before and have race data/finishing time info from that?

2 – I'm planning on singlespeed racing it, will that affect implementation of the plan at all? Is it easy to note which sessions should be SS and which geared?

3 – Most of the above races have been done on fairly minimal training, I struggle to find time. Can you give an idea roughly of the hours per week in the plan? And is it possible/easy to do a 'time crunched' version if necessary?

4 – How long is the taper period at the end? The only other events I want to do this year are unfortunately 2 weeks before the 100 (the 100 is mid September) and 2 weeks after! The 2 weeks before is a 100 mile flat road event, where I'd stay in the lead bunch and draft 95% of the distance. The 2 weeks after is a 6 hour SS event. Is there any way to fit all of these into the plan without impairing performance at the 100?

5 – Any suggestion about the 6 weeks from now until the 12 weeks before the event? The snow has only just melted in Finland so I'm mostly just slowly increasing weekly mileages at the moment, mostly geared on the road but with some SS MTB thrown in. I'm a little worried that 12 weeks of structured training is going to feel quite a bit different to what I'm used to (totally unstructured!)…

Thanks!