BeatriceKarjalainen
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Finished: See post signature.
Doing: C. Levante
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Beatrice:
I am amused by your description of short days of 32-3 km's. That is a normal day for me. How many hours do you walk daily?
Ultreya,
Joe
According to my kids it will be in 2 years. But I would like to volunteer at the Camino in some way a week or so next year.Hola Bea congrats again.
See you next year
This is the times for each day and the time I started.
Day 1 09:32 h start 07:43
Day 2 10:52 h start 07:04
Day 3 07:20 h start 06:51
Day 4 08:50 h start 07:00
Day 5 06:25 h start 07:12
Day 6 08:09 h start 06:50
Day 7 09:25 h start 07:15
Day 8 07:12 h start 07:29
I ended between 4 and 5 most of the days. I could have walked faster if I hadn't stop for photographing, visiting churches etc. I love to walk so for me a long day is better then being at the albergue by noon and then being restless for the rest of the day or worse queueing to get in. I usually stopped for lunch between 30 and 60 minutes when most people were done for the day (or no lunch stop at all some days as I could not find anything else than sandwiches).Beatrice:
Those are long days. I normally do not walk past 4:00 to 5:00pm. I can see how you are walking 40km days. Good luck on your future walks.
Ultreya,
Joe
We are all differentBeatrice -- All I can say is that you are one "walkin' machine"! Our ideal distance on the Frances was about 25 k and we thought the single 32k day we did was a killer!!!!
It is a lovely Camino and doable in 8 days if you can do long days. The three previous days on Salvador was much tougher than this Camino.Wow! This was the very route I was wondering if t was possible and here it is! You did it! Incredible!!
Salvadore is hilly, steep up sometimes and small paths on the edge of cliffs. It was lovely but more challenging. I'm used to hike in the mountains so it was more like that on some stretches. But it is a LOVELY walk and I had a great time.Hi Beatrice
what was tougher on the Salvador please?
Nice to hear that it was of use. Curious what did you use as a GPS?Hi, many thanks Beatrice for your stages! I found your post a huge help, as someone with limited time available but wanting to do the whole thing.
Three solo walkers (me, Ian from Liverpool, and Norm from Australia) ended up walking the Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago together in 8 days, 3-10 June 2019. We followed the same stages as Beatrice. Our GPS measurements came in at 1-2km shorter per day, but that's how these things always work. We had a glorious time, even with Storm Miguel hitting us on Days 4 and 5 and providing us with plenty of wind, sideways hail and rain!
A couple of notes to add what's been said: days 5-8 obviously have much less gradient etc than days 1-4, so if you want to complete in a short time and do big stages, bear in mind that it gets easier. Like Beatrice, we did the Hospitales route and stopped at La Mesa, though in the private albergue. If we were walking it again, we'd probably have made Day 5 a bit longer and stayed at the gorgeous albergue at Vilar de Cas, 2.5km after Castroverde, (it's called A Pocina de Muniz and opened just last year).
Next year, my son (now 10) wants to walk some of the Primitivo with me, so I'll be doing rather shorter stages than 40K!
Oki. Had a Garmin my self. I tend to run around a bit with the camera and measured albergue to albergue. No stopping during the day normally so my lunch breaks can be some distance when the gps goes banans. It can be good for others to know.Thanks for your reply!I didn't use a GPS but my friends both used watches. One of them was a Garmin, but I don't know what the other brand was. From experience, variations across types are typical, and they tended to pause them during our breaks which might have made a difference.
I'd love to do San Salvador one year as a warm-up!
2 weeks on Primitivo is really doable. I wouldn’t say it is particularly hard. But I’m a fast walker in almost all types of terrain. You should have time to do San Salvador as well ;-)Interesting read. I walked the Frances this year, rather speedy with daily distances between 23 (when I had fever) and 45 k – so I wondered if I could do the Primitivo in under two weeks. There is so much talk about it being the hardest Camino so I was not entirely sure if it would be a good idea. But reading your pace now, I feel encouraged to give it a try
Good luck and buen camino. And remember to listen to your body.Hi Beatrice.
I'm planning a Christmas Primitivo from the 19th Dec to 28th Dec and I'm very encouraged by your Success and your positivity. I wont be able to follow your steps exactly due to scarcity of accommodation during the holiday season But I expect to do 35 to 40 km per day. Thanks for a very useful post.
jim
And remember to listen to the locals with regard to weather conditions! There is always the possibility of a "white out" when going over 1000 mts. in December.Good luck and buen camino. And remember to listen to your body.
Thanks Beatrice, I'm guessing that a white out is fog not snow , though either one would not help my progress.
I hope that there are more paths than roads as I have suffered from shin splints in the past from walking long distances on roads. I expect some joy and some pain , as in life, one has to take the good with the bad.Thanks for your blessings and advice.
Jim
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