Thanks for the thoughts you two!
I have heard Steves story about ski guiding and being seriously over trained. I will definitely give the other ones a listen. In particular I am interested in the judging recovery by feel one from Scott.
@mattschonwald I am in the same boat. I really struggle with the entry level work. Treating it as low intensity medium to high volume makes a lot of sense.
I think I will set up a 1:1 phone call and see what they say.