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I am in my eighties but try to walk at least 8 klms six day a week. Even with this level of fitness I still found the first four days of a camino last year challenging. Thereafter I did not have any problems with 20k days.
I'll give you my training program for this years camino and why I'm using it.
I walked the camino last year as well and I over emphasized cardio type exercises; rowing, cycling, walking, running etc. I had it in my head that if I was able to do...
Day 1-
After a quick breakfast of a cafe con leche and a tapas that caught my eye at the counter because it had avocado and shrimp on it, we headed for the bus station. After a 1.5 hour bus ride from Zamora, we walked the remaining two miles to...
After a smooth and uneventful flight from Chicago to Madrid on Iberia, the last three days we have been doing some sightseeing in Salamanca and Zamora, and our days have been sunny, a little cool and not a cloud in the sky.
We took the train...
After 13 days of walking I've finished my 337km walk on the Camino Sanabres, and my entire 1400km walk from Almería. Yay!
If anyone's interested in a day-by-day report, you can find it on my Instagram...
I finished the VdlP yesterday in Santiago. I went through Astorga tongrt there faster. No pilgrim masses on the Frances. Not even starting from Sarria.
Via de la Plata all the way into Astorga is extremely flat as a Camino. My app tried to...
very happy to read you made it, the last hour in a 34 km stage can always be dragging, but you made it, and that is great. I go to bed a happier person to read my post encouraged you.
BUEN CAMINO, you are in the right place, at the right time...
Hi John!
Since you haven't mentioned Oseria I presume you're going the left route.
Well, you have several options on the way to A Laxe. There's a new albergue in Piñor and after that there's Hostal Ateneo, the in Castro Dozon there's Casa...
Wolves! I want to see a wolf! At one point, there was a local man was walking a ways ahead of us on the road. A couple of large canines - looked like wolves to me! - slipped down out of the forest and were walking behind him. Looked like they...
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