Film Friday is a weekly recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.
What is an adventure? Check out this video to see that an adventure is facing the unknown and doing something that scares you.
Alastair Humphreys demonstrates that this can be something as simple as learning to play a violin.
A Ronseal video. It does exactly what it says on the tin/description. A man runs every day for a year and then records his thoughts after finishing the last run. Why did he do it? How did he do it? And is going to stop?
Film Friday is a weekly recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.
There are a lot of videos on YouTube about people’s running achievements. There are far less videos about people’s failures. This is one of the best – or one of the worst failures. It’s hard to pick the correct adjective when describing failure.
Some places are badly named. Greenland is not green, Iceland is filled with rocks and volcanos and DR Congo is not a real doctor. The Empty Quarter, the desert stretching from Oman to Dubai is however very well named – it is almost entirely empty and devoid of, well, anything but dust and rocks. It barely has a hill as it stretches for hundreds of miles of large, featureless and frankly empty terrain.
It may seem strange to recommend a video about two adventurers – Alastair Humphreys and Leon McCarron – attempt to walk from one end to the other unsupported and pulling a large car as there is very little to see. They walk. They pull the cart. They don’t show any scenic sites as there are none. They just keep walking and pulling through miles and miles of desert rocks.
Yet, despite that, it provides a good insight into why some people have the desire to explore even when the rewards are minimal and the only question being asked is “why am I doing this?”
In a world where sporting champions images are carefully controlled and managed by PR advisors and social media managers it would be refreshing to see a genuine sporting great film his own videos while sitting in an empty train carriage on the way home from a race, which is exactly what four time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has done.
Chris Froome joined Israel Start Up nation at the end of 2020 after many successful years at Team Sky/Ineos Grenadiers. Following a horrendous injury in 2019 Chris Froome was looking for a new start and team to support his ambition of competing again for one of cycling Grand Tours. It would have been easy for him to keep a low profile as he returned from injury but, instead, he has posted regular updates on his training and races as he tries to regain his place in the peloton. And what’s refreshing is that while it’s clearly a result of his contractual requirement to promote his new team, it’s also done in a way which appears open and sincere about his challenges as he films himself at training camps, at races or working on equipment or technique.
Film Friday is a weekly (when I remember to do it) recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.
The Yeti Trail Runners are the self styled punks of trail and ultrarunning. They are irreverent, slow and have a devotion to community above competition.
This is a great advert for enjoying running and not taking events seriously. It shows how with the right attitude an event can treat the runner who comes last just as well as the one who comes first.
I do have one complaint about the video – it is a bit too long. Which is ironic as punk music is normally very short.
Film Friday is a weekly (when I remember to do it) recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.
I have no interest in camper vans. My idea of holiday hell would be two weeks in a camper van BUT I really enjoyed this video explaining how to build one.
Thoma Heaton normally does landscape photography videos (which are also great) but in this series he explains how he converted a van into a camper. He is really good at explaining the issues involved and how he resolved them.
Film Friday is a weekly (when I remember to do it) recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.
I recently wrote about Lennox Castle https://twinbikerun.com/2021/04/06/lennox-castle-iain/ Have a read of that and then come back here. Have you read it ? Good.
After filming there I discovered a piece on YouTube showing what the site originally looked like. It has changed allot since its heyday.
Film Friday is a weekly (when I remember to do it) recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.
I don’t think about my running when I run. I run like a Nike advert – I Just Do It.
But after watching this, I did wonder if I have been running wrong….
If you want to know more about Tony Riddell check out his website. He’s quite an interesting guy https://tonyriddle.com/
Film Friday is a weekly (when I remember to do it) recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.
There is a famous tongue twister that goes “How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?”
Try saying it again and again, faster and faster. It’s quite tricky.
I was reminded of it whilst watching this two hour study of one man, his big pike of wood and a lot of chopping. It is strangely calming to watch a man build a shed from scratch over two hours.
Give it a watch and see how long you can keep it on for.
Twin brothers swimming, cycling and running in Scotland 