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With the difference that my knees gave out when I was in my 40s, I've had similar experience.
It took me about a year just to get back to hobbling about, including about 4-6 months of physiotherapy, then a year of training with knee braces...
Theft is nowhere near as bad a problem as it was in the 1990s and 2000s, but it does occasionally still happen, so it pays to have an anti-theft strategy.
Tarmac or trail, it's anyway generally uphill 'til you get past the Sierra before Santa Cilia on the Huesca variant, or 'til you finish your uphill out of Logroño towards Santiago on the Lleida one.
One silver lining is that the more you walk...
Behind the scenes FWIW, all time stamps in software are recorded YYYY MM DD HH mm ss (and possibly further divisions of seconds if needed by the software, and certainly financial software records but does not usually make use of at least 10ths...
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