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I started having electrolyte issues at about 70 YO. After a trip to the ER for dizziness and rapid pulse after a jog, I started using Nuun tablets in a bottle of water. They work fine and are easy to carry; I buy the box of 8 ten-count tubes online. Not the most flavorful, but works.
I like to walk in the early Spring when it’s somewhat uncrowded, especially in poor weather or outside the very minor surge of that time. Approaching from behind, I usually try to make enough noise to be known, but also to make some pleasant comment as I pass…about the weather, scenery, etc. If...
Or any studies on what I would call the five-mile faux Compostela crowd. I know a family that arranged a Sarria-Santiago tour and walked a total of maybe 25 miles. It would seem hard to “police” for these if they stop at the right places and get two stamps a day.
My thoughts exactly when I finished my first Camino in 2017. But I was back a year later and every year since except 2020. My Caminos are now the standard by which I measure the spirituality, relevance and pleasure of all other trips. I’ll never complete my “bucket list” or even all the Caminos...
I often have these doubts after local walks. I assume it's the repetition and stress of routine daily life. Then I'm constantly amazed at the energy I have and distances I cover on the Camino (may it continue!).
A bit over six miles of wandering on a patchwork of trails along Peachtree Creek. Intended to walk 7.5 miles, but the gluhwein called and said six miles would qualify.
Yesterdays short walk on the Northwest Beltline PATH along Tanyard creek where the Common Grackles are holding their annual winter conclave, but thankfully not above my cars (and head) and our election mess has made its way into the creek.
I wear Brooks Dyad runners; I’ve found they are the best fit. They and my feet get soaked but dry out overnight, and it's not cold here. For cold or rough, hilly walks, I wear boots. I wore the runners for a two week camino, Burgos to Rabanal, last March in similar weather and didn’t get...
A wet and puddle-wonderful (apologies e.e.) 5-mile walk along the Chattahoochee where feathers and web feet were de rigueur today. Then there was a poor soul in a carapace who was probably flooded out of its burrow from the recent heavy rains, and an old fool in an Altus with no excuse except a...
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