Jordan J
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- April 24th 2014
Hi All,
Me and 2 other friends are walking the Camino at the end of April (we fly to Toulouse on the 24th and then going to make our way to Bayonne) and could do with some advice. We're three young men, aged 23-25 who are walking the Camino first but then travelling the world afterwards hopefully leading to us finding work and having a great time abroad. Because of this we're packing not just for the Camino but for afterwards as well. I've done a lot of research into the camino and have found that a lot of you recommend 10% of your own body weight. The thing is I don't think I'm going to be able to get my bag down to that sort of weight to walk the camino as I will be packing a few extra things that will hopefully come in useful along the way and afterwards (laptop for work etc.). We're all in fairly good shape and keep fit but none of us have ever done anything to this magnitude so was wondering if you had any advice? I see my bag being about 14kg minimum and the other lads i'm going with estimate theirs at around 18kg. Because we understand this is a lot to walk the camino with and will be challenging, we've decided to do the walk for charity and in memory of my friends brother, Dale, who sadly passed away when he was 15 (10 years ago this year). You can read more about that in the resources section here:
http://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/resources/the-dale-way-2014.120/
What I'm asking is, have you or do you know anyone who has walked the camino with this sort of weight and if so what would you recommend? Things I will state is that we are in no rush to complete the Camino and if say one or more of the days we need to rest we can so hopefully this will save our legs a bit. We're also taking a tent so if we decide we're too tired and the hostel is too far away, we can just pitch up and lay our heads where we can.
As a little introduction I'll let you know my names Jordan. I'm a 23 year old Graphic designer who after a year of 9-5 office work has got bored of the indoors and fancied a change in my life. I met Josh and Jake, the other guys doing the walk, when I was working in Cyprus in 2013 and have been in touch ever since. We have all handed our notices in at work and are leaving our jobs behind to hopefully find somewhere we each feel we belong and do something we enjoy. Josh is an ex soldier and now works on windfarms hence he has lots of experience wearing heavy backpacks across long distances. Jake is a builder and is pretty much the whole reason we're doing the walk as it was he who saw the film The Way and told us all about it. It is also his brother who sadly passed away 10 years ago. They have been doing an organised charity walk for him for the last 9 years and as this is the 10th year he thought it would be a good idea to do something extra special, hence why we're here!
Anyway just thought I'd introduce ourselves to the forum and tell you a bit about what we're planning. If anyone is doing the walk around the same time as us we would love to hear from you and hopefully get to know you a bit before we go!
Jordan
Me and 2 other friends are walking the Camino at the end of April (we fly to Toulouse on the 24th and then going to make our way to Bayonne) and could do with some advice. We're three young men, aged 23-25 who are walking the Camino first but then travelling the world afterwards hopefully leading to us finding work and having a great time abroad. Because of this we're packing not just for the Camino but for afterwards as well. I've done a lot of research into the camino and have found that a lot of you recommend 10% of your own body weight. The thing is I don't think I'm going to be able to get my bag down to that sort of weight to walk the camino as I will be packing a few extra things that will hopefully come in useful along the way and afterwards (laptop for work etc.). We're all in fairly good shape and keep fit but none of us have ever done anything to this magnitude so was wondering if you had any advice? I see my bag being about 14kg minimum and the other lads i'm going with estimate theirs at around 18kg. Because we understand this is a lot to walk the camino with and will be challenging, we've decided to do the walk for charity and in memory of my friends brother, Dale, who sadly passed away when he was 15 (10 years ago this year). You can read more about that in the resources section here:
http://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/resources/the-dale-way-2014.120/
What I'm asking is, have you or do you know anyone who has walked the camino with this sort of weight and if so what would you recommend? Things I will state is that we are in no rush to complete the Camino and if say one or more of the days we need to rest we can so hopefully this will save our legs a bit. We're also taking a tent so if we decide we're too tired and the hostel is too far away, we can just pitch up and lay our heads where we can.
As a little introduction I'll let you know my names Jordan. I'm a 23 year old Graphic designer who after a year of 9-5 office work has got bored of the indoors and fancied a change in my life. I met Josh and Jake, the other guys doing the walk, when I was working in Cyprus in 2013 and have been in touch ever since. We have all handed our notices in at work and are leaving our jobs behind to hopefully find somewhere we each feel we belong and do something we enjoy. Josh is an ex soldier and now works on windfarms hence he has lots of experience wearing heavy backpacks across long distances. Jake is a builder and is pretty much the whole reason we're doing the walk as it was he who saw the film The Way and told us all about it. It is also his brother who sadly passed away 10 years ago. They have been doing an organised charity walk for him for the last 9 years and as this is the 10th year he thought it would be a good idea to do something extra special, hence why we're here!
Anyway just thought I'd introduce ourselves to the forum and tell you a bit about what we're planning. If anyone is doing the walk around the same time as us we would love to hear from you and hopefully get to know you a bit before we go!
Jordan