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Highly recommend getting a tennis ball and roll your foot on it, back and forth, side to side, you can do it while sitting. It will help relieve the tightness combined with Alleve.
The first week is kind of a wake up call - nothing quite as steep as what you just did, but the guidebooks don't exactly do justice to some of the nice climbs and especially joyful footing on those climbs. Descending can be a bit of a chore also - Buen Camino
Just a heads up, when I got on the bus from Pamplona to St Jean the Bus Navigator handed out bags in case you begin to feel queezy. Several people had to use them. The road is not terrible but the ride can be choppy if you have a weak stomach.
I found the camino to be the most challenging at the beginning as the climbs were more than anticipated from reviewing the guidebooks and that focused me completely on accomplishing the task at hand, and my mind began to slow down and I gained a degree of peacefulness from this process. This was...
You definitely want trail runners for the support especially as you descend steep and rocky terrain. you have a higher probability to have foot or ankle injury in running shoes and there is no reason to assume that risk. Plenty of the trail runners at REI are equally as comfortable as running...
Sounds like an incredible journey; is there a staked or mapped out camino that takes you from Vienna to Santiago or does this require a bit of freelancing
The first two weeks there is a lot of climbing and descending, pay very careful attention to your feet as blisters and jammed toenails materialize. after the first two weeks there is a week where the walk will be less demanding and you can recover.
My wife dropped me off at the airport, left and as I started walking to my flight, I had the buyers remorse full blast, like what am I doing here. I realized I could not turn back, and determined at that moment a prayer thanking God for this opportunity was what I needed. Once I got on the plane...
Bed Bugs are an epidemic, they are here to stay because the preventative and exterminating measures are not fully sufficient. Exterminating is done by either heat or chemicals for the most part and the bugs tend to be capable in cases of avoiding these solutions and they lay so many eggs so...
If you are going to walk at night, it would be very helpful to have a head lamp and flashlight or your phone because it is entirely possible to miss the yellow markers especially in areas where the markers are on the streets or when the markers offer alternative paths or none come up for awhile...
If you are desiring to do this on a minimalist budget and willing to stay in Municipal Algergue's my best guess would be $30 per day for room, meals, snacks. Walking length is based on your fitness and you will become more fit during the walk - look at the guides for what makes sense for you...
Typically, you can get a money order using a credit card which can be monetized
or you can make a purchase in a bigger city using a credit card and get cash back
but I would think it would be as easy as going into a bank and asking for a cash advance because the credit card companies charge...
About 120 kilometers until you reach Leon. This is a great part of the walk as it will allow you to build strength without having to cover really difficult surfaces both up and down and by the time you get to Leon you will feel stronger. I found it peaceful and a place to relax my mind while...
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