Howie
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Kia ora, me again.
Couldn't find anything related by using the SEARCH function, so here's my question:
When I will walk the Camino frances in May 2008, I will be almost 65 years old.
I have absolutely no known illnesses of any kind apart from an old spine injury, therefore I can't carry a backpack but I'm looking for organized lugagge transport.
No problems at all with rheumatism, arthritis and all this ugly stuff. I don't need any particular diet or medication.
I'm in quite reasonable shape, tall, muscular, not overweight. Although I don't hike or do sports of any kind - matter of fact, I hate sports - I live a very active life around house & garden. Making my own firewood, cutting down trees and chopping it for the winter (or what they consider being "winter" in New Zealand) - that's my idea of having fun outdoors. I do all the handywork, i. e. renovating, painting (yes, the roof too), fixing things, building decks, crawling under the house for a leaking pipe (shit of a job, btw ...), weedwhacking, cutting out trees and shrubs, building fences and so on and so on.
My feet are pretty tough. Living in NZ means: we walk barefoot from September to May. Walking barfoot an gravel? No problem. Well. Not 800 klicks barfoot from SJPdP to SdC, though...
The downside: I have never done in my entire life a hike like the Camino frances. And soon I will turn 65.
Is this condition of mine ok for the Camino frances? What do you think? Almost sounds to good to be true, I know. But I have heard too many horror stories about people collapsing somewhere out in the sticks, some right after St Jean Pe de Port on this mysterious up hill section. And because I don't have any own experience I ask for your opinion.
Couldn't find anything related by using the SEARCH function, so here's my question:
When I will walk the Camino frances in May 2008, I will be almost 65 years old.
I have absolutely no known illnesses of any kind apart from an old spine injury, therefore I can't carry a backpack but I'm looking for organized lugagge transport.
No problems at all with rheumatism, arthritis and all this ugly stuff. I don't need any particular diet or medication.
I'm in quite reasonable shape, tall, muscular, not overweight. Although I don't hike or do sports of any kind - matter of fact, I hate sports - I live a very active life around house & garden. Making my own firewood, cutting down trees and chopping it for the winter (or what they consider being "winter" in New Zealand) - that's my idea of having fun outdoors. I do all the handywork, i. e. renovating, painting (yes, the roof too), fixing things, building decks, crawling under the house for a leaking pipe (shit of a job, btw ...), weedwhacking, cutting out trees and shrubs, building fences and so on and so on.
My feet are pretty tough. Living in NZ means: we walk barefoot from September to May. Walking barfoot an gravel? No problem. Well. Not 800 klicks barfoot from SJPdP to SdC, though...
The downside: I have never done in my entire life a hike like the Camino frances. And soon I will turn 65.
Is this condition of mine ok for the Camino frances? What do you think? Almost sounds to good to be true, I know. But I have heard too many horror stories about people collapsing somewhere out in the sticks, some right after St Jean Pe de Port on this mysterious up hill section. And because I don't have any own experience I ask for your opinion.