Dw, I'll be riding a bike throughout the winter, plenty of opportunities to die yet.
Many years ago my family sold our house and bought a huge massive old barn to convert into a house. It was poorly plAnned and the family home is still "temporary accommodation" but we are finally getting some shi t done. We've had steel work laid down for the flooring for a while now, we did some of the outbuildings already but r an out of concrete for a small pad round the back. It was pretty easy work, chuted it in from the concrete lorry and the just had to do a little bit of spreading and tamping. We did the main barn this morning, I expected much the same. I also expected a couple more guys in the workforce. So I went to the gym last night and didn't worry about it.
This was much much harder. Then chute could only just get in the barn doors So We had too spread it all from one small area out to the whole floor, it's a big floor and the structural engineers were rather cautious about how much depth we needed so it was really ducking deep too. We all assumed that pushing a wheel barrow over the steel or through concrete over steel would be more effort than spreading it with rakes and shovels. We were wrong. VerY very wrong. I haven't worked so hard in at least a year and possibly never. It was literally freezing this morning but I was working in just a t shirt and dripping in sweat. We worked out that wheelbarrows were far more efficient by the time the second lorry turned up, but it was still pretty hard. AnD then when we'd finished filling the barn floor two of us took the remaining half cubic metre or so in wheelbarrows all the way around the barn to get to the pad at the back - including a short but rather steep incline and a pebble driveway.
**** me. Muscles hurt. My shoulders were on fire by the time we finished. Deadlifting yesterday and lots of bending and shovelling and lifting today = somewhat sore lower back. I plan on having a pretty lazy Sunday.