BeatriceKarjalainen
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Finished: See post signature.
Doing: C. Levante
'I'm, seriously thinking of leaving this community. I'm so tired of all comments about "to fast", "not doing it the right way", "what's the point if rushing by", "you can't see anything" etc etc etc. I think I have seen it all by now, latest in the thread about doing Porto->Santiago in 7 days someone asks if it is doable and there they are the speed police.
How everyone wants to do their camino can't be any others business. I can't really see why people even bother to tell others how fast/long to walk. How short a day and what speed is "good enough"? If I'm not interested in stopping at every café on the road and not peeping into every other church, what's the harm? Do I see or experience so much less if I walk 40 km i 8-12 hours than if I do half that stretch in in the same time or slower and stop at bars, cafés, churches, turist attractions etc? What do a "real" pilgrim have to do? Can we establish that so we "untrue pilgrims" know when we do it wrong and don't tell you about it.
So:
*how many kilometer per day are you allowed to do? Is there also a minimum? What if the albergues are further apart than the maximum distance? taxi back and forth? Sleeping under a tree? Or is it just average that counts so you have to do a shorter stretch to compensate?
*what is the maximum speed a pilgrim is allowed to walk at? Is there a minimum speed as well? Is the speed calculated with or without the stops?
*how many stops per day does a real pilgrim have to make? Is there a maximum as well?
*how long should a stop be to be considered as a "proper" stop?
*what time should a pilgrim start in the morning and stop in the evening?
* is there any other rules we might need to know of regarding the walking? Number of buen camino said during a day to fellow pigrims? Something else?
Do you want to know a funny thing, when I participate in ultra marathons I walk instead of run and people in that community always asks me "why don't you run", "why doing it so slow?" And I say the same thing as here. I enjoy walking far and in a tempo that suits my body and I have time to reflect about the surroundings and photograph. Running is not for me (a bad knee), short distances are not form me (the days are so short then) and neither is walking slow as my body starts to hurt when I force it into a movement pattern it isn't used to.
I just came in from a walk here at home, I went out to do a normal afternoon walk in the lovely weather. I came home after 3 hours and 25 minutes and 22.5 km walking. I took 12 photos and I examined an abandoned house on the way, I stopped to consult my map which way to go at some points. This is how I walk almost every day. Why on earth do I have to walk another way on the camino. What's the difference. What is so special with those stretches that needs to be taken in in such a slow speed? What's the difference to the new and unexplored routes I walk in my own surroundings? No one ever complains about the walks/hikes people do at home so why on the camino?
How everyone wants to do their camino can't be any others business. I can't really see why people even bother to tell others how fast/long to walk. How short a day and what speed is "good enough"? If I'm not interested in stopping at every café on the road and not peeping into every other church, what's the harm? Do I see or experience so much less if I walk 40 km i 8-12 hours than if I do half that stretch in in the same time or slower and stop at bars, cafés, churches, turist attractions etc? What do a "real" pilgrim have to do? Can we establish that so we "untrue pilgrims" know when we do it wrong and don't tell you about it.
So:
*how many kilometer per day are you allowed to do? Is there also a minimum? What if the albergues are further apart than the maximum distance? taxi back and forth? Sleeping under a tree? Or is it just average that counts so you have to do a shorter stretch to compensate?
*what is the maximum speed a pilgrim is allowed to walk at? Is there a minimum speed as well? Is the speed calculated with or without the stops?
*how many stops per day does a real pilgrim have to make? Is there a maximum as well?
*how long should a stop be to be considered as a "proper" stop?
*what time should a pilgrim start in the morning and stop in the evening?
* is there any other rules we might need to know of regarding the walking? Number of buen camino said during a day to fellow pigrims? Something else?
Do you want to know a funny thing, when I participate in ultra marathons I walk instead of run and people in that community always asks me "why don't you run", "why doing it so slow?" And I say the same thing as here. I enjoy walking far and in a tempo that suits my body and I have time to reflect about the surroundings and photograph. Running is not for me (a bad knee), short distances are not form me (the days are so short then) and neither is walking slow as my body starts to hurt when I force it into a movement pattern it isn't used to.
I just came in from a walk here at home, I went out to do a normal afternoon walk in the lovely weather. I came home after 3 hours and 25 minutes and 22.5 km walking. I took 12 photos and I examined an abandoned house on the way, I stopped to consult my map which way to go at some points. This is how I walk almost every day. Why on earth do I have to walk another way on the camino. What's the difference. What is so special with those stretches that needs to be taken in in such a slow speed? What's the difference to the new and unexplored routes I walk in my own surroundings? No one ever complains about the walks/hikes people do at home so why on the camino?