102/62 is extraordinary. I’ve always thought I had the BP of a sloth at 113/70, and I’m five years younger than you. My doctor says my blood has to cover such a distance to get round me that it has to take it slow or it wouldn’t make it.
One memory from the Camino is the few times when I had been walking for hours and still had a long hill to climb. I'd look up that hill and think, "I can't make this right now." Then I'd just keep walking and not looking up the hill and soon...
Check out this earlier thread for other posts re weight loss or not while walking a camino.
In 2004 at 65 when I first began walking my height was 172 cm and weight 65 kilos. By the end of that camino and ever since my weight remains less than...
I've been home from the Frances for just over a week. I had a doctor's appointment yesterday. He asked me about the Camino and checked my vitals. I'm 60. He said: "Your vitals are incredible". I've bounced off the edge of high blood pressure...
A common joke is that God can never litigate since he cannot find any lawyers in heaven. They all seem to end up in the other place.
However with people like Sir Thomas Moore likely to have been allowed through the pearly gates, there must be a...
Just had to share this ---
I am a litigation attorney in the US. The opposing party in one of my cases filed a motion to extend a deadline such that I would have to draft and file a brief in mid-August. I filed a response that I would be...
Like many of you, one of the things that I miss most after returning home from a Camino is the Spanish food! The online publication Spanish Sabores posted an article with 50 tapas recipes. Enjoy and Buen provecjo...
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