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Not quite 7+ days of 300km, but...
An old London-Edinburgh-London (1400km in just under 5 days, so not 7+ days but requiring 300km/day for those 5 days) website had this suggested plan for Audaxes to enter/ride:-
January: 2x 100km events
February: 1x 100km 1x 200km
March 2x 200km
April 1x 300km, 1x 400km
May 1x200km 1x 600km
June 2x 200km, 1x600km
July: 1x 200km + LEL 1400km
Audaxes are good training as they're organised for you, provide an interesting/varied route, can be properly challenging and sort out many of the logistics for you (either food provided at controls or at least an idea of where you can source food). They can be done pretty much at whatever pace you want (unless you're fast enough to continually push the 30kph max average speed) either on your own or working with others.
I had two whole months off the bike away traveling around South America back in November/December 2008. I did plenty of walking but no cycling in that time and lost a lot of my cycling fitness. I had put on half a stone too. But I wasn't starting from nothing as I had a reasonable Audax season the year before (including a series of 200, 300, 400 and 600km rides, all on fixed).
The training didn't start off well. I tried to ride 100km down to the South coast a few days after getting back from South America (just before new year) and had to give up at 70km (Hayward's Heath).
From then I put good effort into the commute (a flat 23km round trip) 5 days a week.
Audax wise, I then did (all on fixed except for the Midlander Super Grimpeur):-
31-JAN: Willy Warmer 200
27-FEB: Brazier's Run 100 made into DIY 200 by cycling to/from the start (250km)
15-MAR: DIY 300: Putney to Thorne (310km)
16-MAR: DIY 200: Thorne to Alston (220km)
17-MAR: DIY 200: Alston to North Berwick (205km)
28-MAR: The Dean 300 (vaguely hilly, 4000m climb)
25-APR: The Elenith 300 (hilly, 4800m climb)
16-MAY: Bryan Chapman 600 (hilly, 8300m climb)
27-JUN: Midlander Super Grimpeur 300 (insanely hilly, 5600m of climb in 300km, took gears)
04-JUL: Dun Run and back home as DIY 400 (430km)
26-JUL: London-Edinburgh-London 1400km
Monthly kilometerages up to and including LEL were:-
JAN: 600.12km
FEB: 539.92km
MAR: 1306.3km
APR: 581.33km
MAY: 853.4km
JUN: 902.68km
JUL: 1979.61km
So, nothing to 700km over 3 consecutive days in just two and a half months.