Monday Nov 23
Today I begin my sixth week of preparation for the Camino. In the past five weeks I have lost ten pounds and become comfortable with a daily walk of five miles. My pace has dropped to nearly fifteen minutes to a mile, my goal. It seems that I will be able to meet my preparation goals of losing forty pounds and getting comfortable with walking twenty miles a day before I begin my Pilgrimage on May 2nd, 2016, the start of my seventy third year. It will be a shortened week this week with an extra day of rest to celebrate Thanksgiving. Next week the schedule calls on me to up the daily walk to two sets of five miles or ten miles a day. I hope the old knees hold together.