Monday, January 13, 2020

Oddity

For some reason shoveling 2" of snow off the sidewalk leaves me a little more tired than shoveling 5" did when we first moved here.

2 comments:

Douglas2 said...

I'm afraid I can't evaluate the validity of this research without more detail in the "methods" section.

In exploring previous work from others on this subject (fatigue associated with shoveling snow) I note that there have been some factors independent of "depth of snow" that correlate strongly with an increase in fatigue.

Some of these factors are:

• subject self-report of "partied late last night"
• lower outdoor temperature (note: seems to relate also to restrictiveness of clothing, effort in dressing, and the effect of heavier clothing on perspiration)
• Wetness of snow
• passage of time since snow has accumulated.

For the last two, see the reference on snow density here: https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1391-snow-and-ice-density

Assistant Village Idiot said...

I prefer not to think too hard about shoveling either 2" or 5" of snow.