Why "expect" any pain or discomfort?
1) Keep your pack light (=no shoulder or back pain).
2) Gradually build up your daily km (=less chance of shin splints or muscle ache)
3) Make sure you've got a good sock and shoe combo that works for you...
Coming off duty from the Pilgrim Office and still wearing my blue tee-shirt I got talking with a group of young pilgrims sitting outside the Canadu. One said they had walked with a guy who was on his second Camino and he knew "all the answers"...
Exactly.
First Camino and the first day out of SJPP and I saw clouds and eagles flying below me as I looked into the valleys, how can you capture that in a photo?
But also be humble - don't get too puffed up by your achievements.
“Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was”
Dag Hammarskjöld
I enjoyed reading all of these contributions. Every one was informative.
I look back to my 2017 Camino Frances when I started late in the day with no training whatsoever and started out from SJPDP. When I came to the steep accent before Orisson...
driving such an interesting topic, ever got stuck driving around and around the arc of triumph im Paris. Copiloted a Neapolitan taxi, got transported via private car through Athenian traffic to hospital, where every priority road is to be...
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