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I don't need huge insect legs. They don't fit my psycology or physical goals or base body shape. And when I go skiing, I find that my quads burn like crazy for various structural reasons: bowlegged, loss of range of motion in left ankle. This is the front inside area above the knee for about a foot.

My quad workouts need to change to accomodate the actions they do during skiing. This would be firing off every other second for every turn, 100 turns in a row. Definitley not 8-12 reps in these sets.

So. . . for endurance training for these muscles what should I do? Just a whole bunch of leg kicks on the machine like leg day but very high rep to failure?

Ok, here is the answer to my own question.

In the room where they hold the spinners classes (group bike) I found that by standing up in the bike (versus seated) and holding my upper body perfectly still and continue pedaling, it affects the exact same part of the quad muscles that kills me skiing. This is an area between the knee and about 1 foot up, towards the inside.

So I can't rep to failure, but I can make them burn for 30 seconds on, 30 seconds off. Pretty sure this will do the trick.

Oh yeah, the bike leader/instructor calls this "the hover" and they occasionally do it during a group workout.