Kilometers per day?
Richard Ferguson
peregrinoaATT.NET
Mon Nov 10 09:10:34 PST 2003
I read the note about training for 25/km per day, two days in a row. A nice goal, but I doubt
that most pilgrims-to-be can find the time to train 6 hours on two days back to back, especially
when they are putting their affairs in order to leave for a month. I agree that 4 km/hour (2.5
miles per hour) is probably a reasonable pace on most of the route.
My other note is that most pilgrims are making closer to 20 km/day. I know that at the end of
my pilgrimage I made two days back to back a little over 25km/day, and I was exhausted at
the end of the second day, despite "on the job" training. I suggest that pilgrims plan for 20
km/day average, which I think is realistic for most people. The refugios generally are spaced
to support 20 km/day. Obviously some people can and do go faster than 20 km/day, but 30
km/day seems like madness for all but the most fit, it becomes a race or an endurance
challenge rather than a pilgrimage.
Richard
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