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hello Jenny. Congrats to you and your friend on your camino. I am a 53-year-old woman from Boston - and am planning to solo cycle a section of the camino frances in september. I keep going back and forth on which type of bike to rent - but am now leaning toward renting a touring bike. Were you pleased with your choice to go with a touring bike? Did you use a specific cycling guidebook or route? Did either you or your cycling partner write a blog about the experience? Thanks for your help!A friend and I rode from Pamplona to Santiago in September over 17 days and I would like to share our journey. @Mark T17 recently posted a comprehensive account of his trip, also in September, and I was inspired to do similar. I echo many of Marks thoughts and account of the journey so I won't repeat them, read his post if you haven't already, it's a gem!It's been quite good therapy writing this for the feeling of 'did that really happen, did I really do that, where's it gone' and I hope you find it useful, and maybe even enjoyable. It's ended up far longer than I'd thought it would...
A little background - I'm a lightweight woman of 59, and for 6 months before hand I rode 20km 3 times a week, and more on weekends. Not many hills where I live though and the first few days were tough.
My friend hadn't ridden a bike for years but trained playing football, she struggled a bit and walked a lot but always got there. Vino Tinto is an excellent pain reliever.
We hired touring bikes bikes from cyclingrentals.com with 2x 20l panniers which we didn't fill up thankfully. I used everything I took except the medical kit but could have done without a couple of things. We had a few short term aches and pains but nothing serious - I did end up with those bulging cyclists knee muscles and was pretty damn proud of them too!
We stayed in private rooms for various reasons, and all places were bike friendly with good storage for the bikes.
The weather was hot initially, cooler and at times cold later (I live in the subtropics and anything under 17C is cold to me) with only 2 brief showers of rain.
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