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How much did you really train for the camino?
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[QUOTE="Deleted member 3000, post: 148014"] This is the way it plays out for many pilgrims who are in good shape, but do not train. You will have plenty of strength the first day. Your feet will spread from the extra pack weight and chafe against your shoes. You will ignore the warning signs, and get blisters. You will walk in pain and treat the blisters for at least a week. If the mechanics of your stride change in response to the pain, you will get aches in your ankles, knees, and hips; even tendonitis. The good news is that the continuous pain from the blisters will keep your mind off the other aches and pains. You will have fallen into a group that you do not want to leave, your Camino "family," so you will continue to walk further and longer than you should. The blisters and joint aches will not improve, or improve only slowly, because you don't give them a rest. After two weeks, you will wonder why you are doing "this." You will quit, take a bus, or do what you should have done all along, stop, rest, recuperate, and go forward more slowly. Walking a half-marathon with a pack every day for a month is not the same as taking a hike on the weekends. Repetitive stress sets in. If you do not train, you will be well served to keep the distance to around 12km for up to a week. You will be bored in the afternoon, but you will build strength slowly using the Camino as a training ground. Think about going to the gym for the first time. You would not start with exhaustion repetitions at maximum weight, and then keep it up for a week. You would start slowly, and build up. Why would a Camino without training be different? [i]Buen camino![/i] [/QUOTE]
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