Just about 1 month up of track building

Just about 1 month up of track building, we have properly had about 80 percent of our days it has rained or snowed and had a few sunny mint days. We have been working in some extreme conditions today for one, while I’m writing this some of the boys are still up the hill but myself and Scott are back down in the warm house. We woke up this morning and it looked like the weather was closing in, on the way up the hill it started raining and you could see it was snowing just above us, I had all my warm kit on but soon as we started work it just got colder and colder we are working up at about 800meters, by smoko half of us were thinking about going home at lunch because the weather was so bad, after smoko we couldn’t get going again we all were frozen so we decided we would go back down to the hut to warm up then go to our track at 600meters to fix it up because it’s in the trees and shelter from the wind, rain and sleet. Once we got to the hut a few of us were quite cold and after a while by the fire decided to make a move myself and Scott gapped it to the house had a shower and got warm. Kind of looks good again out there but I’m not going back out again today that was the coldest I have ever been in my life.

Building is hard going on the body and hard on the training, I’m not doing a hell of a lot of training as after work I’m just too tired to get back on my bike and go out again, I still feel I’m doing enough riding but not as much as I would like to be, but with all the digging I think I will be sweet come Canada. I have been doing a bit of running when the weather is too bad to ride and I haven’t run in about 9 months so legs feel super good and not saw at all.... NOT My legs are hating it.

Only 2 more months of hard work then off to Canada away from this Chilean Autumn/Winter, Winter don’t start till June gutted for the boys that are coming when we leave in July, the weather isn’t going to be nice then I wouldn’t think.

Carl