Carrie - I'm hoping to have several people join in. Knowing that someone else is making the decision to put those shoes on and leave the house to walk is inspiring. Each day, you record your mileage and anything else that you think might be useful: weight carried, number of dogs that chased you when you walked past the creepy house, decisions about what not to carry because you never use it, things like that. You share the information with your virtual walking partner at least twice each week. Every two or three weeks you check your mileage against your goals. You don't have to have the same goals. My sister has two children who will walk with her each day, so she can't expect to cover more than a few miles at a time. She'll use a pedometer to keep track of her mileage.
I'll walk mile sections and keep track that way. I'll do four miles until that's easy, and then I'll move up to six. I need to be able to cover fifteen miles in one day without suffering. When I can do that, I'll be ready to walk the Camino. DH says I need to get a cattle prod before my training starts. He's worried that some farmer's dog will mistake me for a wild two-legged camel. I wonder how much a cattle prod weighs?
