AndyTomas
Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- May (2019)
Hello to everyone,
Some of you already know me due to the many questions I asked trying to be ready for the Camino.
I have to say thanks to everyone for helping me to prepare all the necessary to put on my backpack (at the end it was only 5.3kg) and all the others things that I needed to know.
Unfortunately, as I learnt by myself, the Camino is unpredictable. Nobody can plan it ahead or nobody can be sure that what they planned will be perfect.
There is a long list of things that can change your plan, from meeting and making new friends to share the Camino with to an Albergue better than the other or weather conditions and last but not least INJURE!
I want to talk exactly about my injury that I couldn’t planned and arrived while I was walking, like the other days, doing one step as millions before it during my journey.
Day number 8, I was walking downhill, after a steep hill with a very bad terrain (maybe the worst of the Camino till Leon), towards Burgos. Was a normal day as 7 before, walking between 32km to 40km since I started in Pamplona. I could see Burgos from the hill and all the way going down, it was there close to me!
I walked around the airport, I started to walk through the periphery of Burgos quiet enjoying it because was Sunday and the streets were empty and a one point it happened. I felt on my right leg a very bad pain coming exactly from the neck of my foot going up until half of the way of my front calf.
I started limping and I was worried about it because it was a “new feeling” for me. Never a pain like that from my calf.
Anyway, I was already in Burgos, so I said to myself that I needed just a rest and the day after would be ok.
I arrived at the albergues spending the night there and I tried walking as less as possible. I was still in pain.
The day after it wasn’t the same because I had the same problem in the other leg too. In addition, both legs were puffy. I didn’t care!!! I was hungry of kms. Not a good way to start the Mesetas
I walked all day limping.
I arrived at the Albergue and I asked for a pharmacy.
I bought an anti inflammatory pills and cream.
I started to take it since I bought it. It helped me a lot with the pain.
The day after I took the pill in the morning and it did the job for 50%. I walked again for another entire day thinking positive for the day after.
I want to make it shorter.
At the end I walked 5 days with this injury, taking pills and applying cream but without any positive effects.
The pain was killing me step after step for all the 5 days and at the end I took the decision to stay in Leon for 2 days of rest.
The 2 days didn’t helps at all and at the ends i took the hardest decision for a pilgrim to stop my Camino, in Leon.
Sorry if it was a big too long to read it but this is what happened to me.
Many times people talk only when they finish it, but rarely pilgrims write about injuries or similar.
Keep in mind planning is part of us, but it doesn’t mean that it is wise to do so!
Buen Camino
Some of you already know me due to the many questions I asked trying to be ready for the Camino.
I have to say thanks to everyone for helping me to prepare all the necessary to put on my backpack (at the end it was only 5.3kg) and all the others things that I needed to know.
Unfortunately, as I learnt by myself, the Camino is unpredictable. Nobody can plan it ahead or nobody can be sure that what they planned will be perfect.
There is a long list of things that can change your plan, from meeting and making new friends to share the Camino with to an Albergue better than the other or weather conditions and last but not least INJURE!
I want to talk exactly about my injury that I couldn’t planned and arrived while I was walking, like the other days, doing one step as millions before it during my journey.
Day number 8, I was walking downhill, after a steep hill with a very bad terrain (maybe the worst of the Camino till Leon), towards Burgos. Was a normal day as 7 before, walking between 32km to 40km since I started in Pamplona. I could see Burgos from the hill and all the way going down, it was there close to me!
I walked around the airport, I started to walk through the periphery of Burgos quiet enjoying it because was Sunday and the streets were empty and a one point it happened. I felt on my right leg a very bad pain coming exactly from the neck of my foot going up until half of the way of my front calf.
I started limping and I was worried about it because it was a “new feeling” for me. Never a pain like that from my calf.
Anyway, I was already in Burgos, so I said to myself that I needed just a rest and the day after would be ok.
I arrived at the albergues spending the night there and I tried walking as less as possible. I was still in pain.
The day after it wasn’t the same because I had the same problem in the other leg too. In addition, both legs were puffy. I didn’t care!!! I was hungry of kms. Not a good way to start the Mesetas
I walked all day limping.
I arrived at the Albergue and I asked for a pharmacy.
I bought an anti inflammatory pills and cream.
I started to take it since I bought it. It helped me a lot with the pain.
The day after I took the pill in the morning and it did the job for 50%. I walked again for another entire day thinking positive for the day after.
I want to make it shorter.
At the end I walked 5 days with this injury, taking pills and applying cream but without any positive effects.
The pain was killing me step after step for all the 5 days and at the end I took the decision to stay in Leon for 2 days of rest.
The 2 days didn’t helps at all and at the ends i took the hardest decision for a pilgrim to stop my Camino, in Leon.
Sorry if it was a big too long to read it but this is what happened to me.
Many times people talk only when they finish it, but rarely pilgrims write about injuries or similar.
Keep in mind planning is part of us, but it doesn’t mean that it is wise to do so!
Buen Camino