However long your camino might be advance training is always SO important. Those who have never walked can experience the feel of a loaded backpack by carrying 6 kilos/13 pounds of potatoes continually for at least six hours around the house rarely sitting down. Joking aside you need to train both your body and your mind. Remember you will be walking day after day in all kinds of weather and varied terrain for several weeks!! Since I am old my average is 20 km per day for 55 days to walk from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago and continuing to Finisterre. Hence at each camino day's end what a great pleasure it is to simply SIT!
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much... Ralph Waldo Emerson, Country Life, 1858
Carpe Diem.
Margaret Meredith