さて昨日のブログで少年時代の「雪埋め」あそびで転がされた瞬間の写真を掲載してしまったワケですが、アップの時間は午前５時半ころ。
　で、その頃は雪はチョロチョロ降り始めた程度で、軽い感じで雪かきを始めておりました。しかし様子を見ているとどうも、降り止む気配がなくてどんどん激しくなってきて降り続く。一応１回目として、わが家の周囲と前面道路の通行確保、そして会社が借り上げている駐車場の近隣２箇所、延べ100坪ほどを利用可能なように除雪作業して、様子を見ようとしていました。激しい降雪が止む気配なく降り続く。・・・
　降り始めが朝６時頃だったので、公共の除雪体制はまったく「スキを付かれた」ようで、わが家前の中学校通学路には全然除雪が来ない。やはり除雪の体制は対応させるのに一定の準備時間が掛かるので、間に合わなかった。また契約している民間駐車場も午前８時には利用者が駐車し始めるので、その事前に除雪する決まりになっていて、そちらも体制がまったく間に合わず、終日機械除雪が入らないことになってしまった。
　どうもきのうの降雪は時間的に最悪のタイミングで大雪が降ってしまったようです。
　やむなく人力のみで、その後も本格的除雪を合計３回行っておりました。さすがに参った・・・。
　上の「歩数計」はわたしの昨日の歩数ですが、大雪対応の雪かきオンリーだったもの。通常散歩はしていない。それなのに8,690歩を計測しています。これはほぼ雪かき作業だけの「歩数」に相当。以前にも書きましたが、雪かき労務のエネルギー消費は散歩歩行に対して2〜2.5倍程度。実際の雪かきでは堆雪させる「雪山」に運んで排雪するので感覚的には「３倍程度」の疲労感なのですが、そうするときのうの運動量は歩数換算で17,000〜26,000歩程度。
　運動疲労に加えて、腰や背筋・上腕などの筋肉痛などもジワジワ感じられてくる。まぁ日頃10,000歩程度の散歩運動しているので、そこまでの筋肉痛はありませんが、やはり疲労感はハンパない。
　やはり個人的な感想としては、きのうの「雪埋め」写真が災いしてしまったのかと（泣）・・・。なにか運命の機微に触れてしまった感が強烈。深く反省しております。

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【Sapporo’s Heavy Snowfall: 43cm… Exhausted After Shoveling Three Times a Day…】
Public snow removal was caught off guard and failed to function. Citizens were forced to shovel snow alone, isolated and without support. This labor equates to 17,000 to 26,000 steps…

　Well, yesterday’s blog featured a photo of the moment I was rolled down a snow-covered hill during childhood “snow burial” play. I posted it around 5:30 AM.
　At that time, the snow had just started falling lightly, so I began shoveling with a casual attitude. However, watching the situation, it didn’t seem like it was going to stop anytime soon. Instead, it kept getting heavier and heavier, continuing to fall. As a first round, I cleared the area around my house, the front road to ensure passage, and two nearby spots in the parking lot leased by my company, totaling about 100 tsubo (approx. 330 sq m), to make them usable. I planned to monitor the situation. The heavy snowfall showed no sign of stopping and continued relentlessly. …
Since the snow started around 6 AM, the public snow removal system seemed completely caught off guard. The middle school route in front of my house hadn’t been cleared at all. The snow removal system clearly requires a certain amount of preparation time to respond, and they simply couldn’t keep up. Additionally, the private parking lot we contract requires snow removal before 8 AM when users start parking. Their system also completely failed to keep up, meaning no mechanical snowplows came all day.
It seems yesterday’s heavy snowfall hit at the worst possible time.
We had no choice but to do it all by hand, performing full-scale snow removal a total of three times afterward. Honestly, I was beat…
　The “pedometer” above shows my steps yesterday, but these were solely from snow shoveling to handle the heavy snow. I didn’t take my usual walk. Even so, it recorded 8,690 steps. This is almost entirely “steps” from snow shoveling work. As I’ve written before, the energy expenditure of snow shoveling labor is about 2 to 2.5 times that of walking during a stroll. In actual snow shoveling, you carry the snow to a “snow pile” to clear it away, so it feels like about “three times” the fatigue. When doing that, the exercise volume translates to about 17,000 to 26,000 steps.
On top of the exercise fatigue, muscle soreness in my lower back, back muscles, upper arms, etc., is slowly creeping in. Well, since I usually walk about 10,000 steps daily, the muscle soreness isn’t that bad, but the overall fatigue is absolutely brutal.
Personally, I can’t help but wonder if yesterday’s “snow burial” photo was the culprit (sob)… I have this intense feeling I somehow touched some subtle thread of fate. I deeply regret it.

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Posted on 1月 9th, 2026 by 三木 奎吾
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