Originally Posted by
donttread
New Years Day. I shoveled lots of heavy wet snow. It was hard to throw or to push. The day before I had literally taken down some snow banks to give me room to put the snow that was coming.
It was too much. I am 60 and pushed at full capacity for nearly two hours without breaks. I don't know how to describe it to folks who have never dealt with a foot of wet snow.
Anyway it wrecked my day and I wasn't really right again until today. Dizzy, rubber legged, sick to stomach . Maybe it was partly a bug or the fact that I pushed myself to remain active the next day but damn! One of those days I could have gone back to bed right after I got up!
Anyway my family had some tough comments for me and I'm good, but did the r/r thing today and finally feel better. i live in a small town and doctor used to drive by my house and one time I went to see him and he told me to quit shoveling.
It's some of the best exercise I get in the winter, but I guess it wouldn't hurt me to break the snow blower out once in awhile. No fool like an old fool, right.