Miles per Day Etc

[Scott Wiskoski]

Andrea,

If you do no walking or hiking now to speak of,  you should start to
do some -- that way you will get a sense of how much you can do
without any problems as well as how your boots and your feet
interact... I found that for the first day after getting off the
plane, trains, etc. that 7 or 8 miles would have been plenty (we
actually did 14)... we typically averaged 12 - 14 miles/day but did as
many as 20. It was a function of the distance between planned
lodgings, the terrain, and how we felt.  We did plan our lodging a few
days ahead by phone. But many that we met did not do that and no one
seemed to not have a place to stay.

Re your question re spiritual quest vs. sport, that was a topic of
conversation at dinner with other walkers (radonneurs) and pilgrims
(pelerins) ... most agreed even if you started as a walker, that you
ended up a pilgrim.

We started walking each day around 8:30 and ended about 8 hours
later...with a lunch break.  When it is hot, I would recommend leaving
earlier and stopping much earlier.... we just did not get into the
routine of getting up and out by 6 or 7, although many did. We would
also miss breakfast if we left too early!
cheers
Scott


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrea Innes-Michailov" <andreaaCORP.IDT.NET>
To: <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:47 PM
Subject: miles per day


> Good luck Chris,
>
> you can e-mail me at andreaahq.idt.net so we can compare notes
>
> I don't know, 15 miles per day seems like a lot to me.  I would like
to aim
> for 5 miles and then start increasing when I feel like it.  It's
hard to
> imagine walking 15 miles per day, when right now I walk 0!  Actually
I am
> not the person to ask maybe...I don't have a clue how far to walk
per day!
> We may think of 8 hour work days as being normal but walking is very
> different.  No one has really said how many hours per day they
walked.  I
> guess a lot depends on what kind of experience you want.  Is this a
> spiritual quest or a sporting one?  The weather will affect us, how
tired we
> get...
>
> So does anyone have anything to say about how many miles one can
walk per
> day?  Please advise!!!