Chile 2019 - PrologueHere we are, back together following BCST as they navigate the seasons together. This trip in particular has been a long time in the making. Not meaning the weeks of planning done by Nick, although thats thoughts were far removed from packing their bags and checking in for the long flight south. Tired perhaps from a long winter or maybe more hungry than ever to achieve the things that eluded them when the last course of the season had been torn down. The finality of the last race sinks in differently for most, but to start a new chapter you must first end the one you are in. This end to a season is inevitable, if not always welcome.The new start comes in your off time. Your motivation gets a gut check during those few weeks. If its a yes, then you start to form an understanding of what you think you are willing to give, the kind of effort you think you are going to put in. All the good intentions you have are fresh and at the forefront of your mind. Then the break ends.For us things pick back up on the Whistler T-bars, a taster of sorts and not exactly a normal feeling camp. Mid-summer snowfield skiing, when its full on bike season in the valley, gives it a strange sensation unlike when you are traveling for a camp. What a camp like that does do (outside of the actual training and habit making) is give the team a pretty good sense of if this is what they want to do, or only what they thought they wanted.Make it through that and you and too busy trying to make yourself into something better to stop and get the flattering angle.Make it to mid July still doing the things you thought yous time to buckle down and start the build to race season.Chile 2019/2020I suppose when you have a prologue then what comes next is just the story. Perhaps a prologue even warrants some sort of epic tale of heroism and struggle. I don?It planning of dying of thirst and starvation. What makes it escape proof is location more than anything. Built on a plateau half way up the mountain any walk or jog to take in the fresh air is met by a steep incline or an equally steep decline. Hello spin bikes.Now you have a sense of our home base this month. All you have to imagine after that is being surrounded by the same people every waking minute. More inescapable and more things shared. Lucky for us, the crew is meshing and they are unified by another thing: the mutual exhaustion they feel from pushing long demanding days together. Needless to say, everyone has a daily nap schedule and who knows what will happen if they miss too many of those.I picked s the demise of many a wannabe ski racer.When we are skiing are they making the right choices? Or at least the righter choices? Ire rolling.Change of pace real quick. What do I know about volcanoes? ended and the next day the yellow volcanologist helicopters stopped there twice daily observations of the mountain and the threat level was recued to yellow. I will let you draw your own conclusions.Chile camp has almost reached its conclusion for us, which means the end is as far away as its ever felt. The team is still going strong though and on the backs of hard work and determination the crew will finish strong.This entry I will leave you with something a little different,Sage wisdom, collected from the last few weeks. Dont stop it) This kind of volcano doesns not shaped the same way as the lava kind of volcanos(Literally watching a video of molten rock coming out of it) yeah okay, it was only a cold, but still. Meanwhile everyone is eating the seafood every meal every day, totally fine.)~ Submitted by BC Ski Team Coach Morgan PridyPHOTOS ABOVE: 1. Author Morgan Pridy, BC Team Coach 2. (l to r front row) Ella Renzoni, Tait Jordan, Nathan Romanin, Asher Jordan 3. Marcus Athans GS 4. Active Volcano in Chile with BCSTTraining group athletes in Chile with Head Coach Nick Cooper and Coaches Ryan Jazic and Morgan Pridy: Frances MacDonald, Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club - 1999 Ella Renzoni, Whistler Mountain Ski Club - 2000 Marcus Athans, Apex Ski Club/Okanagan Ski Team - 2000 Asher Jordan, Whistler Mountain Ski Club - 1999 Gerrit van Soest, Vernon Ski Club/Okanagan Ski Team - 2001 Nathan Romanin, Whistler Mountain Ski Club - 2001 Tait Jordan, Whistler Mountain Ski Club - 2002 Heiko Ihns, Red Mountain Racers - 2001
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