Portugal Camino Pilgrimage: Training with Disabilities. Fun.

Not about walking miles & managing shoes. My training includes mobility and audiovisual prep. Bear with my experiment. Podcast, YouTube, & article. A bit rough.

Proem

In the background, you hear my wheelchair as I train for our 200-kilometer Portugal’s north coast to western Spain hike coming up soon. I feel 10-years-old and 70. Ten, because I’m jumping up and down in my head and want to sleep in the car till we go. Seventy because I am a two-legged, cisgender old white man of privilege who gets around with his Forcemech electric wheelchair and Ergobaum forearm crutches. My training is not about walking miles and managing my shoes but includes mobility and audiovisual prep. So, bear with me as I experiment with both. You’ll be hearing about my mobility training during the podcast and video and watching the results of my audio-video experimentation. It’s all a bit rough. And fun, fun, fun. I’ll take you through a couple of training days in varied weather and on different paths. I’ll post show notes with a transcript for you readers and a link to my YouTube channel for you watchers.

Training Day 1: Cold

Hey, there. I’m doing my training. Believe it or not, I’m doing my training to go on to the Portugal Camino. That’s a pilgrimage that we’ll go along…