a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/SnUaHARNF9I/AAAAAAAAAPc/yqQJefSszZ8/s1600-h/Skate2Yelo.jpg”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/SnUaHARNF9I/AAAAAAAAAPc/yqQJefSszZ8/s400/Skate2Yelo.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365223238715381714″ //aspan style=”font-style:italic;”br /(Photo by Justin Wadsworth)./spanbr /br /Every year, for the last eight years, I’ve made a southern trek to New Zealand’s South Island to find some time on the magic white stuff. The training load during my days here always tilts a bit to the side of volume. As a coach of mine use to say, “There’s a certain quality to quantity.” br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/SnUaG-uVaNI/AAAAAAAAAPU/1awfp-oTMbE/s1600-h/speeds2.jpg”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 400px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/SnUaG-uVaNI/AAAAAAAAAPU/1awfp-oTMbE/s400/speeds2.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365223238300690642″ //abr /span style=”font-style:italic;”(Photo by Justin Wadsworth)./spanbr /br /Since I’m down in the country of Murray Halberg, Peter Snell and Co. it might be apt to steal a line, or at least paraphrase, a thought of Arthur Lydiard’s – from distance work comes speed. Speed training has been far from a focus so far this season. Still, the speed over the snow feels good.br /br /Run to the Top… Ski to the Top…br /br /br /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/SnUaGrr938I/AAAAAAAAAPM/dTa4eeLJmlw/s1600-h/email+-+snow+%2B+fences.jpg”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Qy8LpbgYOag/SnUaGrr938I/AAAAAAAAAPM/dTa4eeLJmlw/s400/email+-+snow+%2B+fences.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365223233190485954″ //abr /span style=”font-style:italic;”(Photo by Torin.)/spanbr /br /Living above the treeline atop a mountain, weather moves in easily at the Wairaou SnowFarm. And sometimes with a nasty disposition. Other days, it’s just beautiful. With a combination of snowfences and sunshine, this counts as one of the latter.div class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2691525267872963085-6742989994408551918?l=in-the-arena-torin.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div
