- Time of past OR future Camino
- Some but not all, and other routes too.
I decided today to do my first training walk with a fully loaded backpack, with a litre of water this comes to 7.3 kg.
I hadn't intended to go very far, I thought as the first venture out with the pack 6 miles would be a good tester. I have to say that when I left the house I thought this is going to test me, especially as I was going up and down the Jurassic coast, I guess I was trying to replicate the walk from SJPdP to Orrison.
Within the first mile I had done a lot of adjustments to the backpack to get it sitting as it should, once that was resolved it felt really great. After about 3 miles it felt that the backpack was really part of me, and even though the walk was all up and down my timing was about the same as without the pack, so this really pleased me.
Now I know this is only the first time that I've been conjoined with the pack, but as I've still just over 2 months to go, I'll get a lot more training in.
I feel that if I didn't have the opportunity to train with the pack then I'd find it very hard to do the training as part of the walk as some people seem to do.
So over the next 2 months I intend to increase the distance.
Forgot to mention that on this trip I used my new poles, I've done a little bit of training using just one, but with the pack I went for both of them.
Now I know there has been some interesting debates about the use of poles, my view is that if I hadn't had them with me today I would really have struggled. Just my 2 cents worth.
I hadn't intended to go very far, I thought as the first venture out with the pack 6 miles would be a good tester. I have to say that when I left the house I thought this is going to test me, especially as I was going up and down the Jurassic coast, I guess I was trying to replicate the walk from SJPdP to Orrison.
Within the first mile I had done a lot of adjustments to the backpack to get it sitting as it should, once that was resolved it felt really great. After about 3 miles it felt that the backpack was really part of me, and even though the walk was all up and down my timing was about the same as without the pack, so this really pleased me.
Now I know this is only the first time that I've been conjoined with the pack, but as I've still just over 2 months to go, I'll get a lot more training in.
I feel that if I didn't have the opportunity to train with the pack then I'd find it very hard to do the training as part of the walk as some people seem to do.
So over the next 2 months I intend to increase the distance.
Forgot to mention that on this trip I used my new poles, I've done a little bit of training using just one, but with the pack I went for both of them.
Now I know there has been some interesting debates about the use of poles, my view is that if I hadn't had them with me today I would really have struggled. Just my 2 cents worth.
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