When you are flying in a plane 13.5 miles is not very far; the same distance is a little longer when you are driving in a car; but when you are walking it is long way. Although I have run a half marathon and a full marathon in my lifetime, that was over a decade ago and I don't run any more because I really don't like it. So the other day I set my recent personal best of walking 13.5 miles as part of my preparation for El Camino. That trek took a little over 4 hours. That's a long time. So one thing I have learned is that training for my pilgrimage is going to take a long time.
Once in Spain I will be walking about 17 miles every day for a month or so, but that's pretty much all I will be doing other than eating, drinking, sleeping and looking around.
Friends ask about what I do when I walk every day. Well I bought this little iPod, which is about the size of a book of matches, and downloaded a bunch of my Spanish lessons on to it. We bought a house in Mexico a few years back and I am trying to learn Spanish. So I can kill two birds with one stone. Actually my wife did the downloading and she deserves the credit for that.
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