Your pain kinda took me back to a couple of years ago. I have had an office job for 25 years, and I took a trip back home for a week in central Alabama. Just so happened my Grandpa was bailing hay that week for the cows. I volunteered to be the loader that walked along and hoisted the bales onto the flatbed. After that couple of full days lifting hay, I felt like I had fallen from the ugly tree and hit every limb on my way down.
I bet that was very painful. But you knew you had worked a good hard day… That's what the soreness tells us.