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[QUOTE="Gillean, post: 495146, member: 21981"] These are my opinions based on experience only. Not backed up with scientific study, etc. Can you walk 2 days back to back, 20 to 25 km per day, with your intended pack weight and finish sore and tired but okay and with sound feet? Time is not particularly relevant. In fact a 10+ min break each 1 to 2 hours with shoes and socks off would probably be good. If you can do that you should not have any major physical problems on the camino. In my observation a good average and solid walking pace on the camino would be about 4 km per hour (2.5 miles per hour). Your mileage, as they say, may vary. Your pace (16 min miles) is about 6 km per hour. 4 km per hour pace is about 24 min miles. A very significant difference. You may want to consider upping your pack weight and slowing your pace. Weight training is excellent for general fitness but there used to be a saying in my youth that nothing will prepare you for uphill walking like uphill walking and it will prepare you for everything else. An exaggeration with a kernel of truth. Also note that at about 2 weeks into a camino the cumulative effect of long days of pounding on hard surfaces over long distances with significant pack weight often leads to repetitive stress type injuries which are exacerbated by excessively fast walking. This is the country of joint pain in the knees, hips and ankles, swollen and inflamed muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Don't go there if you can avoid it. I have heard it said that older walkers, for the simple reason that they can't do the high speed, high impact walking have less trouble in some ways than younger ones who push themselves too hard. Hope that helps. [/QUOTE]
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