French trail runner Bruno Poulenard ran ING New York City Marathon 2011 the hard way: carrying a 400-gram GoPro HD Hero2 camera. You might also want to check out his race report (in French of course, but with many photos). Shopping for the camera in NYC before the race was apparently a marathon in itself. His finish time was 3:20 - good job!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Team PI @ UTMB 2011
A pretty good video of Pearl Izumi Ultrarunning Team at UTMB 2011. Darcy Africa (28:30, 31st overall, 3rd woman), Scott Jaime (29:17, 40.) and Richard Cunningham (29:46, 47.) were able to finish the superchallenging race. Only 1133 finished, less than half of starters. I like the clips shot in miniature mode (featured in some Canon cameras).
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Yucon Arctic Ultra documentary
A one-hour documentary film about the world's coldest ultra race: Yucon Arctic Ultra. The trail length is marathon, 100 or 300 miles, and 430 miles every other year (next time in 2013). You can mountain bike or xc-ski it if you like, but most choose running - not counting those who prefer to just watch it on Vimeo! The next race will start on February 4th, 2012.
The Yukon Arctic Ultra from Yukon Arctic Ultra on Vimeo.
Documentary covering the world's coldest and toughest ultra race.
The Yukon Arctic Ultra from Yukon Arctic Ultra on Vimeo.
Documentary covering the world's coldest and toughest ultra race.
Monday, November 14, 2011
TraiLisOn 2011 videos
France seems to be full of nice little trail runs nobody knows about. For example Le Trail de la Source du Lison, or simply TraiLisOn, on October 23, 2011. Lison is the local river. Even the longest course available is only 45 km, but it comes with a respectable 2000 meters D+.
TraiLisOn 2011, le clip from thomas-chatelain.fr on Vimeo.
le clip du "trail de la source du lison" 2011 par thomas-chatelain.fr
Unfortunately there are a couple of things that usually prevent me from taking part in races like this.
First, the start is located in the middle of nowhere - not easy to reach with public transportation. Like in this instance, you would have to travel to a small village called Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne (from there the organizers provide a bus to starting area). If could fly to Geneva in there hours without any problems, but I'm not sure I could ever find the race location!
Second, all races in France (and other Mediterranean countries like Italy and Spain) require participants to have a recently written permission from their doctor. In Northern Europe we do not really understand bureaucracy like this at all. Hmm, maybe that's why the European Union is falling apart. We go to the doctor only if we have some issues they can help with, not to get a useless piece of paper. But rules are rules, I guess.
Anyway, Arthurbaldur managed to run this race, and here is his video documentary. Beautiful scenery!
TraiLisOn 2011, le clip from thomas-chatelain.fr on Vimeo.
le clip du "trail de la source du lison" 2011 par thomas-chatelain.fr
Unfortunately there are a couple of things that usually prevent me from taking part in races like this.
First, the start is located in the middle of nowhere - not easy to reach with public transportation. Like in this instance, you would have to travel to a small village called Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne (from there the organizers provide a bus to starting area). If could fly to Geneva in there hours without any problems, but I'm not sure I could ever find the race location!
Second, all races in France (and other Mediterranean countries like Italy and Spain) require participants to have a recently written permission from their doctor. In Northern Europe we do not really understand bureaucracy like this at all. Hmm, maybe that's why the European Union is falling apart. We go to the doctor only if we have some issues they can help with, not to get a useless piece of paper. But rules are rules, I guess.
Anyway, Arthurbaldur managed to run this race, and here is his video documentary. Beautiful scenery!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Anton Krupicka in Brazil
Anton Krupicka had a chance to visit Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro last week to help launch NB Minimus in Brazil.
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