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The day's rest could play a part. We walked from Pamplona to Santiago in 31 days carrying a LOT of weight (because we had a 27 pound 13 month old with us) and while it was tough, we had energy each morning. We had planned to walk to finessterra (to us, the end of the Camino), but we took one full day off in Santiago to try to get our son baptized. By the following day we had massive fatigue, and didnt want to walk. We rested another day. The day after that we felt really fatigued, so, instead, we bused to Cee and walked the 11 km from there.....and that 11 km felt like 30. Something about getting out of the rythym and habit.
The closest we had ever come to a "rest" day was when we only walked 7 km one day because we stopped in Estella because of bad weather and the baby.....but even that 7 km was enough to keep our muscles going[/QUOTE.
Thank you so much for your reply. We suspected the rest day might have been the culprit. And kudos to you for bringing a little one on the Camino!
My brother and I just walked from Leon to Santiago, and we felt great physically. In the 15 days we walked, we felt energetic and had no pains. Now, we are walking the Camino Finesterre after one day's rest in Santiago, and we feel a deep muscle fatigue in our legs. We are wondering why this is happening and if anyone else has experienced this phenomenon. We will be in Finesterre tomorrow, but we are wondering if what we are feeling has happened to others - a sort of delayed fatigue from the Camino. Any responses would be greatly appreciated. P.S. This has been an amazing and most treasured experience for us!
You can never not drink too much if you do the pilgrim mealSomething similar happened to me after I walked the Camino Frances last Sept.
I flew home the day after I arrived at Santiago, and the following morning I woke up with terribly aching legs and stiff joints. I put that down to having been standing around waiting for the bus/checking in for flight/boarding plane etc plus sitting awkwardly for 2+ hours on the plane followed by 3+ hours on the train. Then when I went for a little walk into town, my legs would not function properly - I just had no spring in my step. I thought that was due to not using walking poles for the first time in a month.
Maybe, just maybe, I was totally wrong and all my troubles were caused by dehydration (from not drinking enough whilst travelling) and lack of electrolytes (my diet in Spain was a bit lopsided at times). I'll be more careful if I go again and take some rehydration salts with me.
You can never not drink too much if you do the pilgrim meal.
I would write this off as Camino withdrawal, sure it feels great for the first month or so and then....Bang! You're legs and feet feel like they have been minced. Well what did you expect after walking every day for that long?
Beer, alcohol, coffee, and tea are diuretics. If you are having dehydration problems, they are part of the problem, not the solution.
Post hoc, ergo sum hoc.But on the camino, drinking all those diurectics in copious quantities every day, I had no problems, no joint pains, no headaches etc at all. It was only when I had less than 500ml of water over a period of 12 hours that the problem started.
Really? I have seen some commentary that people might begin to lose muscle bulk after a couple of weeks depending upon their initial level of fitness and the intensity of their exercise regime, but I have not seen anything that indicates there is such a rapid onset of degeneration without exercise. What is your source for this?Muscles start to degenerate after two days.
Good job! Kind of sad at the same time, rest up you will be back.Just an update - we made it to Finesterre just a few days after my original post, and all went extremely well. It is possible we were mildly dehydrated when I last wrote - we did embrace Spanish wine with each Pilgrim's meal. But, both CF and Finesterre turned out to be the experience of a lifetime, and I will forever be gratful.
Thank you for responding. Your earlier post referred to muscle degeneration, not loss of muscle tone. Perhaps we have different understandings of what muscle degeneration actually means.[QUOTE=", but I have not seen anything that indicates there is such a rapid onset of degeneration without exercise. What is your source for this?
I walked for a couple of days with a masters degree physiotherapist, she explained two days was okay, three you start to lose muscle strength tone etc.
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