Shovelling Snow

I woke up Sunday morning to find at least 5 inches covering the paths, drive and road leading down the cul-de-sac to the main road.
 
So in an effort to ensure the Monday morning  commute would be stress free, I decided to grab the snow shovel and work my way down to the High Street.  2 hours later - I reached my goal.
 
After a nice hot bath last night, and 8 hours sleep, I have woken up with the best arm and back DOMS I've ever had.
 
Anyone else had this today ?

You are a credit to your community.
I bet people were sitting in thier living rooms in front of the fire looking out at you with not a care in the world for your hard toil.
 
I just rock-salted the driveway before the snow came :)

I did this last year as we had been snow bound for about a week. Felt very pleased with myself - about an hour after I finished the snow plough came along!

posted a rant about this last year, i cleared virtually the whole of the main road of the estate, got about 2 people helping in parts. never again.
did get some impressive pain in my left forearm, the lower one when i'm shovelling due to being right handed, so i started using an overhand grip with that hand, was far better.

At home I usually have to shovel snow 2-3 times aweek, from november through march.
 
IMO its the best cardio Ive ever done (bearing in mind Im a lazy fekker and hate cardio!). Ive been out shovelling snow in temperatures down to -30c, and still come into the house after an hour with my clothes under the snowsuit literally wringing wet.
 
Im sure its not the only activity that would do this - digging a ditch would probably have the same effect... there's probably quite a few 'real world' activities that would knock spots off doing 40 mins on a treadmill in an airconditioned gym somewhere...

Me and one of the neighbours did half of our hill, road and path shovelle, then gritted. My arms were pumped to hell afterwards!!
 
I went up the hills with the dog earlier and that was like a complete leg workout, felt fkd when I got back..lol