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[QUOTE="peregrina2000, post: 142858, member: 537"] Another 60+ peregrina reporting in -- I have walked for the last 13 years and have a slightly different slant on all of this. First, I agree with those who note that the younger pilgrims sometimes crash and burn even though by all objective measures they are fitter than us old geezers. I think it's because their cardiovascular system can easily handle 40 kms a day, and what they forget is that their muscular-skeletal system isn't used to such a daily beating. We, on the other hand, tend to walk shorter distances, which helps to keep the tendonitis, knee problems, etc, at bay. Not to say that there aren't many 40 kms a day people over 60, of course. The other thing I've noticed is that those who really seem to be in the best shape for walking a camino are those who bring years and years of high levels of physical activity to the starting point. This is quite a challenge for those of us in the USA, where our car dependency is really hard to shake. But if you normally walk 6-8-10 miles a day as you go about your life (as many European pilgrims do) you are going to find that ramping up to camino levels isn't that big a deal. I know I've written this before, but a real eye opener for me on my first camino in 2000, for which I trained and trained and trained, was when I asked some Belgian (?) pilgrims who were gliding along how they trained for their camino. They truly had a dumbfounded look on their faces and said something like -- how can you train to walk? You just walk. I don't do any camino-specific training anymore, but have made a point to stay really active all year. And that has worked very well for me, with lots of benefits apart from being able to walk the camino every year. Buen camino, Laurie [/QUOTE]
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