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The 10% Rule
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[QUOTE="supersullivan, post: 107277, member: 18612"] Just to pass on my own penny's worth, recently back from covering the Sarria/ Santiago stretch with my better half, I'm a 52 year old very regular hill walker in Ireland and herself a casual walker but she put in 7 weeks of building up her exercise levels and we were confident that she would be able to manage 16 to 20 kms daily without too much bother, our combined backpack weights came to 18kgs including our daily water load with our bodyweights coming in at 88 kg ( a surplus 10 kgs of thermal padding :wink: ) for me and 58 for W, packs came in at about 14% of bodyweight but to make things easier for W, I was carrying about 13 kg and W. about 5 kg. The important point I would make is that all last winter I was carrying those weight loads in the Wicklow mountains over some very tough boggy terrain so IF properly conditioned, the 10% rule can be let slide but IF not a regular hiker then at least one of your weekly preparation walks should be on forest trails or similar with your Camino backpack and gradually increase from week to week the weight you are carrying until you are comfortable carrying your Camino backpack weight. If you cannot reach this level of comfort before you leave to start your Camino THEN look long and hard at your packing list, I carried a notebook, smartphone, camera, chargers and leads for all so readily could have gotten weight down to 8.5/9 kgs but I knew I was comfortable carrying my intended weight. Wear and carry nothing on your Camino that you haven't worn/carried several times in the weeks before you start. My personal view but supported by my own experience both hill walking and in earlier times as a competitive cyclist [/QUOTE]
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