Oh, trust me, I'm aware of the change in my own fitness level. The change has been way too rapid not to notice. I tend to play it down, largely because I don't want to get so busy patting myself on the back for how far I've come that I lose track of how far I have to go.
But I reckon a little self-congratulation won't kill me. So let's see: According to the experts at the Government of Canada, fresh snow weighs around 100 kg per cubic meter, and packed snow weighs between 200 and 300. The sopping wet snow yesterday seemed to me to be heaver than any snowpack I've ever seen, but let's be conservative and say it was in the middle of that range, 250 kg/m3. I dug out a tad over 50 meters of sidewalk, clearing a path the width of my snow shovel, which, conveniently, is just about exactly half a meter; the average snow depth was conservatively 25 cm. 50 x 0.5 x 0.25 = 6.25. Round it down to six; 6 x 250 = 1500. So I shifted at least a ton and a half of snow yesterday in around 40 minutes.
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Date: 2007-12-17 06:18 pm (UTC)But I reckon a little self-congratulation won't kill me. So let's see: According to the experts at the Government of Canada, fresh snow weighs around 100 kg per cubic meter, and packed snow weighs between 200 and 300. The sopping wet snow yesterday seemed to me to be heaver than any snowpack I've ever seen, but let's be conservative and say it was in the middle of that range, 250 kg/m3. I dug out a tad over 50 meters of sidewalk, clearing a path the width of my snow shovel, which, conveniently, is just about exactly half a meter; the average snow depth was conservatively 25 cm. 50 x 0.5 x 0.25 = 6.25. Round it down to six; 6 x 250 = 1500. So I shifted at least a ton and a half of snow yesterday in around 40 minutes.