User blog comment:Na299/Ways of Gold Farming/@comment-26388545-20150512171936/@comment-108.171.114.109-20150512192745

Another way that I've found works well is:

When you look at your progress bar and feel you are getting close, go ahead and do the timed event. Make sure you always complete the goal, that is most important. Anyways, let's say you complete the goal, but don't level up, you misjudged and you need some more fame, redo the same event.

As long as you don't click 'continue' once the race is over you can redo it over and over as many times as you want. This is a sure way to make sure when you do level up, you get the ball rolling!

I find this method easier than doing the cloud save, restore method, but that's just me.