Originally Posted by roadbuzz
How long have you been doing 200 miles/week? That's a lot of weekly saddle time, and if your yearly mileage is at 4000, I'm thinking you haven't been logging that kind of mileage very long. Don't write off the possibility that you're overdoing it... trying to rush training is the best way to slow it down..
I've been at 200 miles per week since the beginning of august (10 weeks), and I started working up to it from may and late april. before that, I was busy running track, and just riding a few miles on the weekends. but I followed the rules for building mileage, not a whole lot more then 10% per week.