Travel Day. LAX to Sea-Tac. Wanted to get this up and out because of the possibility of another travel day tomorrow. If that happens there will be a dearth of download, calibrate and recovery time. Transfer media, re-charge, check in and go. The old run 'n gun. Good thing we decided to postpone the the Koi farm. But, ya know what folks? That is the way we like it.
Here are a couple pix from the weekend. Saturday in Oceanside for the Cal 70.3 and yesterday for the 17th LA Criterium, about a 3 iron from my sisters house which has now been officially been dubbed RCV South after this the third stray of the young 2010 campaign.
Saturdays shoot went off OK. We had some minor camera mount issues after taking a Camp Pendleton speed bump at 30 mph, a repair that was impossible to fix with one hand and on the fly, so an unscheduled stop was necessary. I am quite sure that the base security had their big eyes on me during the two minute emergency gaffers tape job. These unscheduled stops create another challenge to synch the GPS with video as we enter what Roger calls the time-space continuum. Meaning that although I have paused the Garmin to fix the video issue, time keeps moving (satellites can't pause) causing GPS triangulation synch problems in post. We have yet to come up with a software work around. So they ask me, sometimes nicely, sometimes not, to make the capture as seamless as possible, a request to which I always aspire yet rarely achieve. The Go Pro test is specifically addressing this issue but will have to wait until tonight's download to measure any degree of success, I can say this: Without any way to monitor capture it is a gamble every time out. Vegas had us at 20-1 on Saturday. Such is life in the RCV saddle at 25 mph in the middle of 2,700 riders on a highly restricted and challenging 56 mile course. At least we held those laughing bones for almost three hours before crapping out back at T2.
I will try to get some video of the event(s) up by week's end, but if I am out for New Orleans tomorrow, all bets are off.
RCVman heading home, gun is done, out and on the run.
Update: I am out for NOLA at 0-dark-thirty in the morning. Video on hold.
2 comments:
You can really see in the second shot the biomechanical challenges faced by several of the runners. That's really something, plowing through everything that they face.
You betcha, half or full, it is still an Ironman. The winds on top of the last climb on base were blowing as hard as I've seen since Kona 2002.
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