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Cold wind stopped us this morning. At least we don't have deep snow (yet). The rtve.es website shows the depth of snow and lists the roads and passes where snow chains are mandatory or they are closed to traffic. Seems that nearly all the Caminos are affected somewhere and one photo showed snow on the beach on the north coast.
Go easy, this is not an endurance event. I live in Boston and walk about 3 miles daily, 1 or 2 Saturdays I go out there for 10 miles and call it day. Walked francais in 2016. No problem, prepping for el Norte in early May. Ultreia
I’m glad that your training plan works for you! We have walked enough to know that we require the ability to do abt 10 kilometers a day as prep...speed is not a factor. When we can do 4 consecutive days with no aches and pains we are ready. We are in the senior set now and preparation, for us, is really important, especially walking on hard surfaces. We go slow, start early, eat well,and get lots of sleep on our way! As I consistently state, know thyself! Good luck with el Norte
WOW!!
We leave early and most people pass us on the way...starting off slow and limiting our distance to no more than 15km any day the first week really helps us ease into it. The slow speed helps prevents a lot of stress, injuries and blisters early on! We try also to take time to breathe in the beauty of the moments. Sometimes in a 20 km day we stop 4 or 5 times - we have the time.I'm very glad it's that easy for you, last time for me though took over a year's worth of some occasionally pretty intense prep (total probably about 1200-1500 K), including quite a few 20-40 K runs, some of them at sub zero °C (my 40K January walk to Dijon on a bad knee through fields and Burgundy vineyards and daringly through a 15K section of lonely desert forest wilderness, on a tight schedule ensuring being able to get the last bus back, being particularly memorable) -- even with all that, it still took about 5 weeks after I started to get my average daily Camino speed up towards 20 or so
aaah well, what goes around comes around ; I've been one of the fastest pilgrims, one of the most average speed, and one of the slowest --- all of these speeds have been marvellous in their own way !!!
