Well…just came back in from shoveling the snow and all I can say is that hurt…a half hour of pounding on my shoulder and back and now they both are howling at me and screaming Ibuprofen, ibuprofen! This was the worst type of snow and conditions that you can get…4-6 inches of wet snow that had already started to compress into a solid with the temp up over freezing so it had to be lifted instead of pushed…and that is what screwed my back up…but, as I sit here, the pain is receding some and I hope it won’t get worse as the day goes on…with all that work, I won’t feel too bad about not getting on the bike today…when I came in, I was soaked in sweat…almost as much as riding 15 miles but I will still need to restrict calories to about 1,000 today…and I think I can do that…more later…