Feasibility of Among the many positive aspects of the Camino de Santiago is that of " be feasible, even by" normal people "and especially not particularly trained.
This statement is not synonymous with "start without any training," but simply want to stress that any person with a minimum of physical training, documentation "on board", a strong will to reach a degree of adaptability to situations and can walk the Camino de Santiago personally experiencing the emotions that come by the Way.
Raffaele I state that neither I nor engage in any exercise schedule. Assuming that walking is a natural activity, and thus not innate human need, we gain a great technical ability but just a little wake up 'the muscles relaxed by too many office hours and sedentary lifestyle. Raffaele being able to do, he started its preparation by going regularly to work on foot (he lives about 2 km from the workplace).
I started to walk more steadily (train seems too difficult a word) about five months before departure. I immediately started with the new boots to "adapt" good foot by walking about 4 to 6 km (about 1h 1h ÷ ½) once or twice a week. Beginning on flat and hilly route later on. Later I began to lengthen the path reaching walks of 10 to 12 km. Over the past two months I started to carry a backpack with top a load of 3 to 4 kg and grow until you reach a weight about equal to that for the Road (about 10 kg). In this last period we had three or four outputs with simulating a stage of the media path as the path length (about 20 to 25 km) and height differences of about 300 m. We also hiked in the mountains with the weight of the backpack type Camino (10 kg) and height difference of about 1000 m.
Since the end result I think we made the preparation was good. After the first day of "acclimatization" to the new way of life and the weight of the backpack, I would say that both the physical and the mind are found at ease in the new situation and brought us together to achieve the objective that we set. We had some days where you felt that his legs "turned" without apparent effort and you could walk for hours, I felt that all physical, mind and environment was in perfect harmony and walk there in that place along with Raphael, and all other pilgrims, seemed the most logical and most natural.
There were also moments with the difficulties which have known physical disorders (muscle pain, foot problems, pain in the ligament) problems of heat, especially anxiety problems in the longest stage in which the end point of stage never came or you saw it at the last moment.
¡Hola!
Maurizio
