I’m fresh off the mass start 10km Craftsbury Classic held Jan 3rd in Craftsbury, VT.
NOAA was predicting 5-9″ overnight Saturday, and an additional 3-5″ Sunday; initially it was going to be wet snow in the mid to upper 20’s and Saturday, the day before the race, I was wishing I had brought my Fisher Zeros…
I waxed 2 [...]

December is race preparation month. After skiing upwards of 4 hours per day on snow in Silver Star BC, I came home, recovered for a few days and decided some intensity was in order.
Yesterday was snow/sleet/rain and wind so I decided to go inside alternating the treadmill with the Ercolina for 10 times 3 minutes [...]

See these balance exercises:

Modelling the transfers of training effects on performance in elite triathletes.
Millet GP, Candau RB, Barbier B, Busso T, Rouillon JD, Chatard JC.
Laboratoire UPRES-EA “Sport, Performance, Santé”, Faculté des Sciences du Sport, Montpellier, France. g.millet@staps.univ-montp1.fr
This study investigated the effects of 40-weeks training in swimming, cycling and running on performances in swimming, running and triathlon competitions in [...]

Mr. B.
 
this year, I decided to experiment with being totally rested—so rested that I would be practically exploding with the need for intense exertion. As a result, here’s what I did….
 
…During the remainder of the week I took some more days off and trained only enough to prevent going into acute exercise deprivation and not [...]