Fun evening at the Pavilion last night for the 2010 Race Across the Sky screening. Epic event and a pretty fair cinematic representation of the 100 mile race. As this is my blog and I am solely responsible for its verbosity (!), from the intellectual content POV anyway, please allow me to submit a few comments on the film.
C1: Like any documentary on a sporting event, there is only so much you can do without wandering off into the fiction or fantasy realms. We have seen the model and it is NBCs gold standard coverage of Ironman. Peter Henning, if you are out there, congratulations. The director of the RAS (successfully) borrows this format, dropping images, themes, coverage angles and pacing into the template to tell their wonderful story.
C2: Music is very, VERY personal. It doesn't always have to be edgy and hopping with hipness. Nome sane? I was cringing at times when the score had nothing whatsoever to do with the images. And trust me folks, I know the headaches in finding good licensed music that perfectly fits your film. As Yogi might have said, half of any film is 75% music.
C3: Love those belt buckles.
C4: I wonder how many folks left the theatre last night, walked past our bikes, training products, videos, cruises, free passes, demos, and then connected the dots between training and racing, between indoor effort and outdoor rewards. How many people wondered how many riders in the event who were suffering, DQ'ing, missing time cuts, could have avoided that bitterness by better training structure?
C5: It's OK if the answer to that is none. That is why I have a job that utilizes promotion and marketing. There is hope, still. Always.
Special thanks to Jeff and the folks at the Pavilion Cinemas for hosting the event. Also to expo presenters:
BI Cycle
Bainbridge Island Travel
CompuTrainer
Bainbridge Athletic Club
Pix: Steve, Steph, Tony and Gabe in front of the CompuTrainer prior to the show. A section of The Show (aka Leadville). Ya gotta dig deep.
2 comments:
Thanks so much for the prize. Absolutely amazed at how relaxed Leipheimer looked while inflicting some serious pain on the other racers.
Looks may have been deceiving. Here is his quote in Velonews:
"Earlier, Leipheimer had joked that his teammate Lance Armstrong, who won the race in 2009 but skipped it last year, had “tricked” Leipheimer into starting the race.
“He was the one I was cursing the last 20 miles!” Leipheimer said. “He’s at home laughing his ass off … I didn’t expect it to be that tough. I couldn’t wait for it to be over.”
Or being blind and on a tandem? "If you fall, fall left".
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