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is deadly accurate. On my second walk, I met a 60+ man in Calzadilla de la Cueza that began to feel like he was twenty again, so he kicked it up to a 40 km day. He was spending three days of forced rest with shin splints. Once you have seen the sheep being herded into the barn in Calzadilla, there is nothing left to see but the bar (and two overgrown playgrounds for a town that has no apparent children).assuming that in the first few days nothing has gone wrong, so they start dramatically increasing the distance...big mistake
Lydia Gillen said:I am 68 today. I have walked the C.Frances from Roncesvalles to Santiago over three years. and most of Pamplona to Santiago last year. I was hoping to do part of Camino del Norte next spring. but have just read that the bit from Irun to Bilbao is harder than anything on the Frances. so maybe it is not for me.
I would love to start in St.Jean and go over the Pyreenees. Can anyone give me a bit of encouragement.???
Flights from Dublin to Bilbao in May are just €9.99 at present. It seems a pity to waste such good value.
I want to book and know what I am going to do. I know I can book and keep options open. bus to San Sebastian or Pamplona or Biaritz ??
Please encourage me somebody. The family here think me a bit cracked!!
newfydog said:Sixty is definitely not too old. We're trying to get throught the harder routes in our 60's so that we can do the easier ones in our 70's and 80's.
We don't stay in those refugios with all those kids much though....
Lydia Gillen said:I am 68 today. I have walked the C.Frances from Roncesvalles to Santiago over three years. and most of Pamplona to Santiago last year. I was hoping to do part of Camino del Norte next spring. but have just read that the bit from Irun to Bilbao is harder than anything on the Frances. so maybe it is not for me.
I would love to start in St.Jean and go over the Pyreenees. Can anyone give me a bit of encouragement.???
Flights from Dublin to Bilbao in May are just €9.99 at present. It seems a pity to waste such good value.
I want to book and know what I am going to do. I know I can book and keep options open. bus to San Sebastian or Pamplona or Biaritz ??
Please encourage me somebody. The family here think me a bit cracked!!
annakappa said:As long as you, yourself feel in good shape and know your physical disabilities - especially in the foot and leg area, there should be no reason at all why you can't walk the Camino. Since 2007, Adriaan and I have walked: Camino Francés in two parts - 2007 and 2008, the complete Camino Francés in 2009, the Mozarabe in 2010 and this Sept/Oct the Camino Frances again. Adriaan is 73 and I am 69.
At home, do walk about 6 kms most days of the year and when on the Camino, we keep strictly to our backpack versus body weight of 10%. This year our average was 20/22 kms a day, in the past we have walked sometimes up to 30 kms, however this year the weather was exceptionally hot (30 - 34 degrees at midday for days on end) and that seeps your energy! Actually we often walked under the shade of an umbrella, which helped a lot. So often we arrived at the same albergue as other younger people on the trail, who we had met on many occasions. We just arrived a bit later in the day. Anne
There are all types of drink to buy.Soliwo said:The will have soda's, tea and coffee as well. It is just that wine is often free/ included in the menu price and the rest isn't.
As mentioned, a pilgrim menu includes wine or water (bottled).If one does not drink wine/liquor will I find other things to drink?
I would probably have forgotten the wine!! :lol:Soliwo said:Sorry, I forgot to mention the bottled water. I am so used to it by now that I forget it is not really the standard in the world.
Add a small magic marker so that you can clearly write the address on the box in which you ship items home after a few days! :mrgreen:it weighs about 24 pounds
yukonchick said:Hello all,
I am a Canadian woman, now 59, who will be doing the Camino in 2014 when I am 61. My concerns are not so much the walking, but the heights and inclines as I do have a fear of heights. I've heard horror stories about thePyreneese crossing (Jane Christmas calls it Hell in her book).
I have lived in mountainous regions of Alaska and the Yukon (Canada), so can handle heights in certain circumstances - but if the incline is so steep as to be like the Gold Rush Chilkoot, straight UP with the possibility of sliding down and into oblivion, then I have to rethink.
I'm the one who went to the pyramids in Mexico only to be unable to climb the steps due to the steepness.
I'm the one who tried to do the Chilkoot, only to turn back after 5 steps as it was too steep and I got vertigo.
Having said that, I have been to the top of the major Towers in the world, lived on a 32nd floor, etc. and they were OK.
But if there is no path, no road, and if I can see Down Below with the incline so steep the mud is touching my nose, I don't stand a hope in hell.
I have no problem hiking hills and train on a treadmill at the top incline....but it's Vertigo I'm most worried about.
Can someone comment on the incline, vertigo, and whether anyone was paralyzed by it???
Thanks,
Yukon Chick
MichaelB10398 said:[
My dear Yukon Golden Pilgrim,
I grew up in Alaska and loved every day I was there. You will have no problems on the Camino and you will do smashingly well on the Way from St. Jean over the Pyrenees. Have no concerns whatsoever.
The Chilkoot is not the Camino; thank God. The Chilkoot was only taken because there was gold at the end of the trail. The Way of the Camino was easiestbecause it was the easist ways to get to Santiago de Compostela. If one way does not work there was always another way around.
Geez, thinking about Alaska I long for a good bite into a sourdough pancake. We lived on the Salcha River and had a huge smoke house where we smoked enough salmon and dolly varden to last all year for our family and several others. I only remoccasionallyuying hamburger occaisionly; all the meat we ate was moose or what we caught in the river.
The trail is wide on the Camino; a good 49'er gal will do just fine.
dkenagy said:I am 70. I'm in Santiago now, having completed my 2nd walk from St Jean yesterday. Here's how to do it: SLOWLY.
consuming as much local red wine as is consistent with the need to walk each morning.
Other tips: Bring practically nothing. Spain is not wilderness. If you need something you can buy it here. (You will need far less than you think). And utilize the essentially free Ibuprofena here. It costs 2 Euros for FORTY 600 mg pills!!!
Congratulations on your fantastic achievement!yukonchick said:[quote="dkenag
Other tips: Bring practically nothing. Spain is not wilderness. If you need something you can buy it here. (You will need far less than you think). And utilize the essentially free Ibuprofena here. It costs 2 Euros for FORTY 600 mg pills!!!
yukonchick said:dkenagy said:I am 70. I'm in Santiago now, having completed my 2nd walk from St Jean yesterday. Here's how to do it: SLOWLY.
consuming as much local red wine as is consistent with the need to walk each morning.
Other tips: Bring practically nothing. Spain is not wilderness. If you need something you can buy it here. (You will need far less than you think). And utilize the essentially free Ibuprofena here. It costs 2 Euros for FORTY 600 mg pills!!!
Congratulations on your fantastic achievement!
Funny, I was just thinking about Ibuprofen yesterday....I was going to bring a big bottle, but I guess I don't need to. ;-)
And just what does a 36 year old daughter know about getting old?Arn said:Hi,
My daughter say's that age is only a number and we are as old as we feel.
Stephen Nicholls said:"because 70, now that's old!"
Hold on! Hold on! I'm still walking quite happily at 73.
90, now that's old!
Stephen.
mspath said:Comfort
Take anti-diarrhea medicine and pocket packs of tissues for toilet paper. There is nothing worse than diarrhea on the trail first thing in the cold morning air!
A little off-topic, but age-related. My aunt was complaining that her arthritis was slowing her down and she did not enjoy her gardening and preserving as much as she used to. My Dad's comment: “It must be awful when you get old like that.”newfydog said:We find being 60 might slow you down a bit, and like to take a day off a week, but many, many pilgrims are over 60 and do great. We just want to get in as many hard ones as we can now, because 70, now that's old!
aloarb53 said:OK -- so I'm not quite 60. I walked from SJPP to Santiago last fall (2011) and this fall, both times arriving a day or two before my birthday (58th in 2011 and 59th in 2012). The best advice, after urging you to keep your pack LIGHT, is to do whatever your body and spirit are telling you to do. If you want to walk 9km one day and 30km the next, do it. If you want to stay in municipal albergues or paradors, do it. If you want to stop every half and hour for coffee or walk straight through for hours and hours, do it. If you need to send your pack ahead or take a day of rest, do it. Just don't let anyone else tell you how fast or far to walk or where a "real" pilgrim stays. If you are on the Camino, you are a real pilgrim.
Next fall, for my 60th, I'm walking the Via Francigena from Vercelli to Rome (about 850km). And I'm going to keep backpacking each fall for the rest of my life -- as long as my legs, feet, back, and spirit hold up. Age is a state of mind.
Buen Camino,
Ann Loar Brooks
aloarb53 said:Next fall, for my 60th, I'm walking the Via Francigena from Vercelli to Rome (about 850km). And I'm going to keep backpacking each fall for the rest of my life -- as long as my legs, feet, back, and spirit hold up. Age is a state of mind.
Buen Camino,
Ann Loar Brooks
Saint Mike II said:By the time I arrive in Granada in May 2013 I will be 64.
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