The training routine is no real surprise at this point: hiking (lots of) across varying terrains for progressively longer distances; along with sessions of yoga (for spiritual peace and balance), zumba (for endurance and heartrate), pilates (for core strength), trx (for strength) and body pump (to be with Linda).
I haven't made my plane reservations yet, but I should be leaving Rochester around the 20th of Sep. I figure on four weeks of vacation to allow for a rest day, every four or five hiking days.
One of the big internal changes that happened recently happened as a result of a decision that Linda and I discussed. She has her own plans for the El Camino, but along the Camino Frances in 2017. By the end of this segment of mine, I will make it to the vicinity of the Camino Frances. I, in an earlier blog, alluded to the Camino Sanabres. I have since been thinking, to press on to the Camino Frances instead.
I checked with Linda because I would not want to intrude on her personal camino, but she also likes the idea of meeting up in 2017, somewhere around Astorga, and continuing (both her and I) along the Frances to Santiago de Compostela. ... I like this idea.
But more than that, just the discussion with Linda taught me a valuable lesson.
The Camino, my Camino, is more than a set of locations along a track ... it is the spiritual, emotional and mental journey along which I travel. Whether I make that journey along the Sanabres at this point, or along the Frances in 2017, or along the pathways that I travel in Rochester at this moment, my camino began a long time ago and continues each and every day.
It no longer matters where I am or what I am doing or when I participate, from now on ... my camino is within me ... the route is just a physical manifestation of where my soul is located.
This sched gets me to where the Camino Sanabres branches off from the Via de La Plata.
| Date | Start | Finish | Distance (KM) |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Wk 1) 24th (Sat) | Leave Rochester | ||
| 25th (Sun) | Arrive Madrid | Bus to Bejar; hike to Calzada de Bejar | |
| 26th (Mon) | Calzada de Bejar | Fuenteroble de Salvatierra | 20.5 |
| 27st | Fuenteroble | San Pedro de Rozados | 28.0 |
| 28th | San Pedro | Salamanca | 23.3 |
| 29th | Salamanca Rest Day | ||
| 30th (Fri) | Salamanca | Calzada de Valdunciel | 16.8 |
| (Wk 2) 1st (Sat) | Calzada de Valdunciel | El Cubo de la Tierra Del Vino | 19.7 |
| 2nd (Sun) | El Cubo | Villanueva del Campean | 13.5 |
| 3rd | Villanueva | Zamora | 18.1 |
| 4th | Zamora Rest Day | ||
| 5th | Zamora | Montamarta | 18.5 |
| 6th (Thu) | Montamarta | Granja de Moruela | 22.7 |
This sched takes me along the Camino Sanabres. It is very approx and I have not really given a lot of thought to the Camino Sanabres. I put it here more to help me crystallize the second half of this leg.
At the end of this phase, one of the important things that I would like is to spend a day in Madrid, in particular to see Picasso's "Guernica" at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. It is possible that I will do this on the front end rather than the back end.
| Date | Start | Finish | Distance (KM) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7th (Fri) | Granja de Moruela | Tabara | 25.3 |
| (Wk 3) 8th (Sat) | Tabara | Santa Croya de Tera | 22.5 |
| 9th | Santa Croya | Villar de Farfon | 21.5 |
| 10th | Villar de Farfon | Asturianos | 30 |
| 11th | Asturianos | Puebla de Sanabria | 17 |
| 12th | Puebla de Sanabria | Padornelo | 28.5 |
| 13th | Padornelo | Lubian | 21 |
| 14th | Lubian | A Gudina | 30 |
| (Wk 4) 15th (Sat) | A Gudina | Verin | 40 |
| 16th (Sun) | Make up day | ||
| 17th (Mon) | Travel to Madrid | ||
| 18th | Fly to Rochester | ||
At the end of this phase, one of the important things that I would like is to spend a day in Madrid, in particular to see Picasso's "Guernica" at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. It is possible that I will do this on the front end rather than the back end.
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