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Why Walk the Camino? Where? When? With whom?
Pre-Camino walking regimes - are they worth it? Do they work? Are they needed?
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[QUOTE="David Tallan, post: 919097, member: 31995"] I have walked both with and without a pre-Camino walking regime. From both of those experiences, I've got two major learnings: 1) It is certainly possible for most people, regardless of their level of fitness, to walk a Camino with no preparatory training. This is especially true if you pack light, use walking poles, give yourself lots of time, and are able to pay attention to what your body is trying to tell you and respond appropriately. 2) If you invest in a preparatory walking regime before your Camino, your Camino will very likely be a [I]lot[/I] less painful. In 2016, when my son and I walked the Camino Frances, neither of us had done any preparatory walking. After the first 22km day, we took it fairly slowly, with three days at 15 km before gradually building up to 25-30km days by the end of the meseta. We completed our Camino successfully. But we had a lot of pain doing so. I had blisters. He had [I]terrible[/I] blisters until we had them medically treated, took a rest day, and started keeping our daily distances under 25km. For me, on the other hand, it was the knees. I ended up needing knee braces, hiking poles, and lots of ibuprofen to see me through (enough ibuprofen, it seems, to land me with chronic ideopathic urticarea). For my Camino Portugues a couple of years later, I walked in advance with a local Camino walking group. I took myself to the point where I could walk three 20km days in a row with my backpack and I was confident I was ready. That Camino I had no physical problems. My knees were fine. No blister issues. No hobbling around the albergue like an old man in the evening after I had rested a bit. For me it was worth it. For those who have never walked a Camino, it depends on how much of their time and effort they are willing to invest to reduce the (likelihood of) pain on the Camino. Maybe some are looking forward to the pain - "no pain, no gain". I will always train this way for future Caminos if I have the opportunity. But if I don't, I'll walk without the training. [/QUOTE]
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