Try to imagine that you are 70 years old rather than in your 20's and plan and walk like a 70 year old.
In my observations the majority of injured people who I noticed at Roncesvalles were young people.
Start slow and work up to the 9 hour days...
Many of us have been in similar situations.
Do make sure to get professional medical advice as soon as you can.
Your accommodation host will help you to find someone.
The local Spanish Health Centres (Centro de Salud) are really good and very...
I'll leave the health tips to others but we feel your 'pain'. Having spent time planning for it to come to a sudden end, is disappointing. Hope you can continue or come back. It's one of life's journeys.
PMFJI: your experience is part of the "game"!
You should try to make days short up to PdlR to let heal the inflamation. Take meds after consulting a Centro de Salud or a physician. Don't treat the symptoms by selfmedication, it may get worse...
This I especially liked:
It reminds me of a quote from an interview with Jack Hitt, the author of "Off the Road: A Modern-day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain" which was one of the inspirations for Emilio Estevez to write the screenplay...
I have noticed the questioning on a quote of mine on "how" (and not why) you participate on a camino.
I feel that however you organise your camino (whether by bike, organised tour, pack transfer, booking (or not) by whatever means at your...
At the end of the day the Camino is no different to anything else in life...it is down to choices.
To make an analogy, how you undertake it is no real difference to a restaurant menu.
You pick what you want and it isn't up to anyone else. It may...
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