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Are you eating enough? Drinking enough water? Sleeping enough?
If you're HR's not fucked, and it doesn't seem like overtraining, sounds like you need to think about keeping your training very short and intensive, at least whilst you're tapping out 200 base miles a week.
I'd go for 2 x 30min sessions per week for the next 2-4 weeks. These half hours would include 10min of warm-up, and 10 min of warm down.
In the remaining 10min, either do 30s maximal high cadence efforts (i.e. 30second sprint, 2min recovery x 4), or a batch of standing start things (e.g. 5 standing from 0mph for 10s with 50s recovery; 5 seated from 5mph for 10s with 50s recovery; alternate standing/seated).
So really, I'm advocating a total of 3m40s actual effort (balls out) per week. You get the picture.