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It may be.
Ask yourself the question......
if time is to be "made up" on a 31 day walk is saving time on the very first day the best way to go about it?
Alternatively, do you want to "do" a Camino or do you want to "experience" a Camino?
To be absolutely brutal, no. Sorry. I know that seems...
No, nay, no, thrice nay! 😀
Give yourself a break.
Getting to SJPP no doubt involves all kinds of stresses. Give your body, and especially your mind, the chance to settle, and to absorb where you are and about to do.
SJPP is a pretty place on its own and deserves a bit of time.
One of...
In the kindest possible way can I ask why you are on here now?
You're on the Camino, you've done it before. You don't need much advice. So what are your expectations of coming online to this place?
I can well understand a desire to see what's going on in the world or to catch up on sports...
Why so hard on yourself?
Some people want recommendations and will be quite peeved if you don't offer some!
This is a Camino forum. The vast majority of the communication is going to be in a certain direction and we are all going to be influenced by that, whether we're aware of it or not.
The...
Do I think we should make recommendations? No. At least not for places. Tools, or processes, perhaps.
Do I think it should be banned? It would be like trying to ban rain from falling. Nature will will out.
It's human nature. Both to give a review and, especially, to seek one out, to fill in the...
I would strongly urge you to do some research so as to be specific on exactly what kind of vaccine is required. Your embassy/consulate may be able to help as this may be complicated by different vaccine regimes in different countries.
This is exactly right. Downloaded routes can be a hodge-podge of wrong turns, personalised adaptations or just plain wrong.
I wholeheartedly agree
A very strong reason to use a dedicated "Camino" app which has been designed for first time users. Trying to master a new, complicated, dedicated...
Since the OP hasn't been back I hope they haven't read this!
The OP probably won't need to walk much further than 4 hours per day.
By multiple days you mean about 5?
Do people prepare for the Camino by walking 30 days of 30km? In a row? Do marathon runners run a marathon before running The...
Paul, don't know why you chose to reply to me?
Yaaay! for you that you get your ecectrolytes that way.
Not terribly helpful for vegetarians or vegans, though.
Not terribly helpful for someone suffering a sudden depletion after say, a bad dose of the runs?
You're perfectly correct that a well...
In all fairness, the website is little more than a blog and the equating of re-hydration powders with these different products that are little more than ways to make fizzy drinks at home from a century ago is unfair and potentially dangerous.
Proper rehydration products are far from snake oil...
To anyone advocating Aquarius have you actually read the label here in Spain (I suppose it's possible that it's different in different countries) but there's really not much in there to help in cases of dehydration?
Apart from dehydration, there can be an almost opposite effect where too much...
I agree wholeheartedly with those advocating getting and listening to professional advice.
Secondly, there are no rules on a Camino. If your body is telling you 10kms a day, listen to it and plan accordingly.
Thirdly
This reads like you are looking for a stranger to tell you what to do and how...
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