ice, ice baby

Okay, so it's a line from a bad rap song by Vanilla Ice. But I had to do it.

We had about two inches of snow, another 1/4 inch of sleet, and a good 1/8 inch of ice last night and today.

So instead of walking I shoveled, alone. It was wet and it was heavy.

I did four sidewalks—mine, Sharon's Phillipe's and the house on the corner. The "slumlord" doesn't shovel and it leads to the corner. Sharon can't get to the bus stop so we shovel a path there also. Came in, got dry clothes on, ate some breakfast, and went back out and did the "driveway, patio and sidewalk thru the yard.

So I went back to last year's entry called fat girl shoveling to look up how many calories I burnt. I only burn 100 calories a mile walking (300) so this was less of a workout. Some sites said 20 calories a minute. (1200 calories!) One asked if it was light or heavy snow. Light was 12.5 calories, heavy 20. I went to Spark People, a site recommended by the nutritionist, asked my weight, time I spent shoveling and gave me an answer.   I was out 70 minutes the first time, and about 30 the second. I keyed in 100 minutes and it came out to 1,176. So maybe snow and ice does burn more calories. I know I use more and different muscles.

School didn't start till noon, and the roads weren't bad. The sidewalks, on the other hand were a skating rink! Resistance walking?