IMHO you won‘t make the hike over to Roncesvalles in 4 hours 30 minutes.
If you’re a competitive trailrunner maybe.
It’s roughly 25k with 75% uphill over the whole distance. Good luck.
The other option would be to walk the Camino de la Lana from Alicante and you would pass by Santo Domingo de Silos directly.
Still a quite, less trodden Camino.
A bit harsh maybe, but basically I agree.
Even if one is not religious, everybody on the Camino is looking for something - some change, some new direction.
You need to be ready for your personal way.
You need to be able to let loose of your everyday worries.
You need to be able to open up on new...
The unwanted: hikers on the Camino Portugues pass by a pile of shoes and boots other pilgrim's before have dumped there for unknown reasons: be it fatigue, weight or the perception of needing less.
Perfectly doable in 12 days.
As for training: Walk regularly, expand your distances and add some backpack-weight over time.
Choosing training ground with different surfaces and with some up and down might also help training your knees and ankles.
Even so, do expect some sore muscles and back...
- Getting up in the morning with sore muscles in my legs during the first three days on any of my three Caminos
- 10 days of sore shoulders from the daily wear on my first Frances - but since then my shoulders gave up any protest.
- Never had a blister.
- Maybe a bit too much sun-tan on arms...
I have a faint idea, where this goes...
As for tics you might weven wanna avoid safe and regulated Germany, when someone is worried about tics.
Tics carrying lyme disease are quite widespread from North to South and in parts of Europe Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is on the rise. A
Safest is to...
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