Staring with the worst (I cannot see this changing:
- Tarmac of a quality to take lorries. Hurts the feet like hell after 10 miles.
- 5cm ish pieces of stone. Put down to ´improve' the camino. Hurts like something close to hell and hard to balance on.
- Cement roads. They are very keen on these here. YUK
- lots of road surfaces as yet unidentifed fit into these places
- 1cm pices of stone on hard compacted dry clay - you get caught out easily and have an ankle wobble and it has no give.
- Compacted cinder track
- Compacted gravel track with sand
- Dried slightly uneven dirt track - the unevenness actually helps the feet and cses less pain. Not sure why I guess the foot rolls more. I will spend some time working out a theory NEXT WEEK (did I really sign up for all of this????)
- Soft dried dirt track is a good surface
- A new one in yesterday is wet well cambered compacted sand on gravel after a 30 minute heavy down poor. I love this surface. it has lovely give and actually helps the feet feel better than ever. I don´t want to ask for rain, let me make that clear. But I like the effect.
Glad to see the scientist is ever present! x
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