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If it looks like you are going to run out of space on your credencial, there are places you can get another. We filled up two each on our 2016 CF. I picked up extras in Leon when it was becoming clear that just one wasn't going to cut it.If you stick to the "standard" stages it'll take you 6 days to do the last 100k and there are dozens of places to get sellos - what's the rush?and don't forget it's at least two per day - there's nothing to stop you getting more (unless you run out of space on your credential!)
I had a German "pilgrim" at the office who claimed to have traveled from Portomarin to SdC in one day and had multiple sellos to prove it.Getting your two sellos for the day 5 minutes apart might raise eyebrows at the pilgrim office. Not really the point to have two from the same town/village as they are supposed to show your progress on the way.
I had a German "pilgrim" at the office who claimed to have traveled from Portomarin to SdC in one day and had multiple sellos to prove it.
A quick check of the Australian Ultra Distance Walking records shows:94.5km according to the Godesalco planificador. Pretty impressive. Not completely impossible though. About 20 years ago I did a 24 hour sponsored walk in Scotland and covered 111km. And felt every single one the next day!
I just finished reading Sunrise in Spain: Finding the Good Life by Hiking the Camino de Santiago, a memoir of her Camino by Theresa Fersch. In Chapter 35 she writes: "Speaking of Santiago, I got a text from Nikolai tonight. He made it to Santiago today! He hiked 107km in 22 hours!" Perhaps it is not impossible. Although, if you are hiking that long continuously, chances are that a bunch of it will be when all of the sello-providing places will be closed.I had a German "pilgrim" at the office who claimed to have traveled from Portomarin to SdC in one day and had multiple sellos to prove it.
So, @Bradypus, we are both well short of making the record books any time soon!!!
If it looks like you are going to run out of space on your credencial, there are places you can get another. We filled up two each on our 2016 CF. I picked up extras in Leon when it was becoming clear that just one wasn't going to cut it.
Interesting stats. I did one of those dratted sponsored events - 100km. Took me 26 hours and while it is well short of any record, it was 10 hours under the cut-off time and 7 hours faster than our team had aimed for. I remember feeling so alive and literally skipping along at the 55km mark - but was merely trudging thirty km later which happened to be in the middle of the very dark night!A quick check of the Australian Ultra Distance Walking records shows:
My PB for 12 hours is 59.7 km - well shy of challenging the serious walkers, and not something I have any plans to better on a pilgrimage walk. So, @Bradypus, we are both well short of making the record books any time soon!!!
- Men, 12 hours, residential - 108.290 km
- Men, 24 hours, residential - 194.490 km
- Women, 12 hours, residential - 103.217 km
- Women, 24 hours, residential - 190.984 km
And the best 100 km times were 10:51:25 (men) and 11:36:29 (women). While some ultra distance walks have been conducted on public roads, these records were all set at track events.
Apologies if this has been asked, but I've not been able to find anything.
Is there a specific "time of day" requirement for getting two daily sellos on the last 100km? Or could you get one at 8:00 and one at 8:05 and be good? Or should the last one of the day always be from your hotel/hostel/albergue/whatever?
I considered it, and where a church was open, would get a stamp there. But on my first Camino, it wasn't as often as I had expected it might be and I haven't made it a priority since.As everyone else said, there are no specific times. I always tried to get mine at a church/cathedral somewhere during the day and then where I was staying that night. I didn't want a stamp from an albergue that I didn't stay at and I didn't want a random coffee shop. To me, for whatever reason, they weren't significant to me. Did anyone else impose these rules on themselves?
Apologies if this has been asked, but I've not been able to find anything.
Is there a specific "time of day" requirement for getting two daily sellos on the last 100km? Or could you get one at 8:00 and one at 8:05 and be good? Or should the last one of the day always be from your hotel/hostel/albergue/whatever?
A quick check of the Australian Ultra Distance Walking records shows:
My PB for 12 hours is 59.7 km - well shy of challenging the serious walkers, and not something I have any plans to better on a pilgrimage walk. So, @Bradypus, we are both well short of making the record books any time soon!!!
- Men, 12 hours, residential - 108.290 km
- Men, 24 hours, residential - 194.490 km
- Women, 12 hours, residential - 103.217 km
- Women, 24 hours, residential - 190.984 km
And the best 100 km times were 10:51:25 (men) and 11:36:29 (women). While some ultra distance walks have been conducted on public roads, these records were all set at track events.
Hola: I was aware of this possibility so I did a cut & paste before leaving home. I joined two credencials together which gave me enough room for about 60 stamps. I think I have something like 40-45. Having started in St Jean with clear evidence of a stamp every day I was not overly religious in getting those two per day from Sarria. No one in the Pilgrim Office made any comment. But if I had started from somewhere like Leon I think I would ensure I had the required number. Cheers
I guess that my original point was that there will be that rare occasion where someone capable of some really long distances will appear on the Camino. There are many people who are prepared to challenge themselves in these longer distances, and some might also find the motivation to undertake a pilgrimage.There's an ultra small group of the most insanely capable hikers who are capable of cross-Continent ultra-hikes averaging ~150 to ~200K/day ... they don't compete in "normal" ultra-hiking or track events, they're simply not challenging enough. They do insane stuff like the Barkley Marathons -- that only 15 people have completed since 1986.
Apart from that, Olympic walkers (not hikers) can routinely average 100K daily.
I've never been anywhere near that good, but in my youth in 94, the last 100K took me two days. 6 sounds really slow ...
Furthest I've walked in a day is probably a smidgeon over 65K ; nice thing about doing that on the Camino is that you can actually have cyclist compañeros !!
On a technical point, the Olympic race walking events are 50 km (men) and 20 km (women). I doubt many race walkers routinely competing at that level train at longer distances, only taking those up in retirement!
Under scrutiny from one of the senior Pilgrim Office administrators he admitted to using a taxi . . .94.5km according to the Godesalco planificador. Pretty impressive. Not completely impossible though. About 20 years ago I did a 24 hour sponsored walk in Scotland and covered 111km. And felt every single one the next day!
What did you think of the San Salvador?Collecting sellos, is great fun more important to me than the compostela, done three caminos, and none ended up in Santiagoso no compostela, although I have got the San Salvador
Found it hard but stunning when we did it at the end of April 2015, the worst part was coming down off Pajares, very steep in partsWhat did you think of the San Salvador?
More than a little 'Suss' I would say here!I had a German "pilgrim" at the office who claimed to have traveled from Portomarin to SdC in one day and had multiple sellos to prove it.
However, the pilgrims' office wouldn't let me have a distance certificate, because doing it one day "wasn't the way!".
Apologies if this has been asked, but I've not been able to find anything.
Is there a specific "time of day" requirement for getting two daily sellos on the last 100km? Or could you get one at 8:00 and one at 8:05 and be good? Or should the last one of the day always be from your hotel/hostel/albergue/whatever?
If a clerk in the Pilgrim Office is being at all conscientious they will be counting the stamps and the spacing between them, you soon get to recognise where they're from - see my posting above about the man who caught taxis from Portomarin.How would the volunteers at the Pilgrim's Office in Santiago possibly know if a pilgrim got two stamps for the day, five minutes apart, unless the pilgrim said so, or the volunteer could look it up in some kind of a sello database? Not likely, I think (even if such a database were possible), given the usual number of pilgrims waiting in line for their turn next, and the dozens and dozens of possible places to obtain sellos!
The two stamps per day rule is a bit of a pet peeve of mine because of the knots I've seen pilgrims tie themselves up into, worrying about it. A first-time pilgrim once tried to debate me on it, just outside Sarria, when I (wanting to reassure him) said I'd walked before and no one I knew of had ever had their stamps counted.
It's a bit tricky for me to relate to because I enjoy collecting sellos from various kinds of places and for different reasons, so I usually end up with more than two per day anyway (and two credentials to get from SJPP to Santiago).
But in all the times I've walked, seven so far, not once has my credential been looked at that closely. No one has counted my stamps. (If someone decides to in future, I'll watch with interest.)
To me it makes sense that the last stamp of the day would be from the place where you sleep, though I've often gotten sellos later in the day than that, from a museum or church or sometimes a shop.
But sellos don't have time stamps. (The photos I take all the way along do have time stamps though -- sometimes two or three minutes apart!)
Buen Camino! Have fun! And enjoy getting your sellos. I suspect you'll have plenty in the end.
Did you see THIS ONE Doug? 268 miles in just 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds and carrying her own kit!I guess that my original point was that there will be that rare occasion where someone capable of some really long distances will appear on the Camino. There are many people who are prepared to challenge themselves in these longer distances, and some might also find the motivation to undertake a pilgrimage.
On a technical point, the Olympic race walking events are 50 km (men) and 20 km (women). I doubt many race walkers routinely competing at that level train at longer distances, only taking those up in retirement!
Did you see THIS ONE Doug? 268 miles in just 83 hours, 12 minutes and 23 seconds and carrying her own kit!
That's like doing a Camino in 155 hours non stop!
Good lord, what a waste of such beautiful countryside! Each to their own - I managed 3 miles in and hour and a half last week!I read about that a couple of days ago. An astonishing feat. As a Scot I also find this record very impressive: the entire 95 miles of the West Highland Way covered in 13 hours and 41 minutes. Took me the better part of a weekhttps://westhighlandwayrace.org/2017/06/27/report-on-2017-race/
I do double day (part two in the afternoon) along the camino. Normal walking pace: 5.5-6 km/hr. For serious walking: there are still plenty of 100km/24 hr events. One of the most popular event in Europe is the Dodentocht.be of Bornhem - near 15 000 participate. I recommend IML for training(multi-day 25 mile events). For longer walks here is a training programme: http://makoni.dk/makoni-2016/traeningsprogram/traenings-forslag/ next in 2021). you could also join this walk on the Danish stretch of the Camino www.Fodslaw.dk and for this that are up to the challenge: 100 miles are called centurion http://centurionverenigingnederland.nl/08inenge.htmlInteresting stats. I did one of ...- 100km. Took me 26 hours. I cannot fathom 190km.
I do double 'days' (part two in the afternoon) along the camino. Normal walking pace: 5.5 km/h (C2C in UK in 3d last year). For serious walking: there are still plenty of 100km/24 hr events. One of the most popular events in Europe is the Dodentocht.be of Bornhem - near 15 000 participate. I recommend IML for training (multi-day 25 mile events). For longer walks here is a training programme: http://makoni.dk/makoni-2016/traeningsprogram/traenings-forslag/ next in 2021). You could also join this walk on the Danish stretch of the Camino called Hærvejsvandringen http://www.fodslaw.dk/?pageid=41&menuid=46&languageid=0 for those that are up to the challenge: 100 miles are called centurion http://centurionverenigingnederland.nl/08inenge.html
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