10,000ft a week

[ZootHornRollo]

I'm very interested in how you guys make up your 10000ft. Do you do several hill rep sessions over a week, a couple of big sessions in the fells, or some combination thereof? Getting, say 5000ft of ascent into a hill rep session seems horrendous!

whilst I'm sure it's sage advice, I don't think the 10,000ft / week is like a necessary rule

people who don't live near hills (like me) won't get this amount in every week, or even most weeks

but I've been encouraged by messages from people who've managed to focus their training differently: long weekends of progressively bigger days in the hills building up to the attempt for instance.

what matters to me is whether I can do, say, a 45-mile 18,000ft day, or the Fellsman, in a reasonable time - if I can then I'd hope the BG was within reach.