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My advice was learned over years of long distance running (and training daily for running), long distance bicycling, and mountain climbing.
The thing that most folks don't factor in is that a Camino is more like training for a half marathon over a one month period. Most long distance runners...
I am tentatively planning on my second Camino in 2021. Since I have done the CF, I am thinking of a different one. I did the CF in the Holy Year of Mercy and it was crowded, but not impossible. I encountered a few villages where the Albergues were full, and the inexpensive hotels were full...
I am contemplating a Portuguese Camino in 2021, but when reading about the ocean boardwalk route out of Porto, was told to be extremely careful if it has rained as the boardwalk can be very slippery. I would appreciate you comments or the comments of others. Part of me would like to follow...
Joe: Congratulations! Well done.
I like your blog/post over hear https://findpenguins.com/joesgoes/trip/the-camino
I think that you were very wise to both use a rental bicycle (Honey Badger) and your feet as a way of balancing the stress on your body and keeping to your schedule.
You also...
Not at all! They are designed to breathe. I own two pair and took both with me on my Camino and last summer on my Coast to Coast bike ride across England. I use my CWX tights for skiing, running, hiking, mountain climbing and long distance biking in all kinds of weather.
I am 69. I use to run half marathons, and still do 100 mile bike rides and 5 to 10K runs plus hiking. One of the things I learned as a "master runner (old foggy)" was that as you get older the amount of human growth hormone and other hormones decline. These are the things that allow you to...
I did my Camino for multiple reasons: religious, tourism, athletic challenge, contemplation as I was not with others I knew. This is an interesting topic.
For me the experience of Confession just prior to the start of the Mass followed by the Mass was one of the most moving religious...
I did a bicycle Camino Francis in May 2016, (Papal year of Holy Mercy) Pamplona to Santiago. I am now 69 and thinking about doing another Camino during the Holy Year 2021 again by bicycle. For a 200 km bicycle
Compostela, Porto to Santiago is about 215 to 226 km depending on whether you take...
To each their own. I did a bike CF in May 2016. A big part of my memories were taking time to talk to people and fellow pilgrims, picnic, attend mass at all the cathedrals, do tourist sight seeing at towns and cities.
OK, since the OP is a doctor, this is for pilgrims, who are not healthcare professionals.
If you have a smartphone, take it with the US Red Cross first aid application loaded on it.
On my Camino, when I am a tourist where a terrorist attack could happen, and on MTB bike trips where I could be...
13 days is doable, but doesn't give you much in the way of rest/recovery days or days where you stay put due to very bad weather. The point is that if you run into trouble and need to keep to your completion date, you will have 3 options. (1) give up. (2) figure out where you can bus or train...
My 2 cents. I did a bike CF in May 2016 Pamplona to Santiago with a train trip from Leon to Ponferrada because of horrible rain that turned trails to mud and had water running over roads. Ponferrada is 200+ km from Sanitago so you can still get a Compostella.
Mine was for religious...
Actually, I have two post graduate degrees and helped/watched my wife earn her doctorate. She is now a Director at a nationally ranked University. What I have seen is that a PhD is suppose to advance the field of learning and be publishable at a major conference or Journal. My extended family...
I am going to be a little blunt. I think you don't understand how a Camino pilgrimage differs from Lourdes in France, St. Anne's in Quebec, and Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. I have been to all. In Lourdes and St. Anne's the obvious signs of miraculous medical condition healing are on...
Very well said, except for the issue of comfort. I did the CF in May 2016 by bicycle on my own and stayed in a variety of places. It was nice on a rest day to stay at a place where I could have a bath, private room and sleep in with out being woken early in the morning by other pilgrims.
In...
I met a fellow pilgrim in Leon at a laundromat. He suffered (and that was the word) a hernia early in his Camino. He was traveling with his brother and another person. Sometimes he could walk, sometimes he took a taxi and waited for his brother.
Every night at dinner, I asked pilgrims why...
My response will be a little different. I believe that we are called to the Camino.
Even with a tour group, the Camino, unless just the last 100 km, will test your resolve. A tour group will provide you with the "illusion" of support, the illusion that someone will watch over you, the...
I got to the bodega early in the morning and by the time I got there the wine for the day was almost gone. I also know that some tour buses stop there and let the bus traveling pilgrims have a glass and get a picture taken.
Still, it was kind of a fun and historic connection to the past.
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