I want to record our beautiful trails, with GPS map, photos and videos.
For this purpose, I did some preparation. For example, I bought sports video cam, Garmin VIRB, and tried several mounting/holding methods. At end, I found the best way is to mount the camera on top of trekker pole and turn on the stabilizer. The trekker pole can be used as Monopod (single leg tripod), and when holding in hand and let the leg hang below, it can stabilize the camera. It's pretty good to record walking; ok with running.
我想要將灣區常跑的trail記錄下來, 用GPS map, photos 都很常見,我還想增加Video。為了這個目的,我買了 Garmin VIRB,還試驗了不少持攝影機的方法。有肩帶,頭帶,但都不理想,最後發現裝置在申伸縮登山杖頂端還不錯。
Costco的 trekker pole, 加工將Camera裝在杖頂
Despite smile on my face; shoulder mount doesn't work well
Use it as monopod and shoot video rotate. 杖拉長,定點著地拍攝
Walking with camera cane, stabilizer on. 用走的
Running with camera cane, stabilizer on. 用跑的
But in general, if we want to record the trail, we must do many stop/slow walk and recording.
I enrolled this race for marathon, and it was raining the night before race, and the course become very muddy. I got serious injured at mile 12 mud slop, struggled to limp back to finish line, couldn't proceed the second loop, so recorded as half Marathon. I reached mile 12 by 3:08, but limping back took very long time, end of finish line at 3:39. Because of muddy condition, mid marathon finisher finished at around 7 hours; in pass years, mid finisher finish around 6 hours.
I surely will come back to this one to finish it next year.
August 10th at Crystal Spings (Wood side park).
This is the first time I got a Gold Medal at trail Marathon running. Although it's just at my age group of 40~49 male, I am 48, which is at elder end of my group; but I ran pretty fast with finishing time 5:33
I was injured sometime early, despite barely recovered but I am still running slower than my best pace. I am almost 10 minutes faster than last year's Summer race, it has a lot to do with cooler temperature.
This weekend (5/11/13) has QuickSliver 50K/50M race, Next week is Ohlone 50K, So we don't have many Marathon runners in Cinderella Trail Run, about only 40 runners. I finished 5:30 but still 2nd place in 40~49 male group.
这周末有QuickSliver50K/50M比赛,下周是Ohlone 50K,所以我们在 Cinderella Trail Run 没有很多马拉松选手,大约只有40位选手。我用了5:30完成,但还是在40〜49男性组中的第二名。
Jan 5 2013 Crystal Springs Marathon. 5:28
Mar 24 2013 Canyon Meadow Marathon 5:06
May 11 2013 Cinderella Marathon 5:30
Aug 10 Crystal Springs Marathon 5:33. 1st place in Age group 40~49 male
Nov 9 Lake Chabot Marathon 5:29, that's including 1 extra mile of lost detour.