Category Archives: Film Friday

Film Friday – I Trained Like an Olympic Sprinter for 30 Days (Andrew)

Film Friday is a weekly recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.

If you want to run faster then you need to run faster, that’s what I’ve been told. You can’t training to run faster by running the same speed you always go. You have to run faster to run faster. Except…. you don’t. Or at least you don’t most of the time.

Watch this video to understand what it actually means to train like an Olympic sprinter and learn how much of that training is training to train and not sprinting faster.

Film Friday – What the Blimey is Bicycle Football? (Andrew)

Film Friday is a weekly recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.

Mental.

Mental that anyone thought to combine bikes with football.

Mental that anyone plays football with bikes.

If you cannot even imagine how playing football on a bike is even possible then you have to watch this video.

Film Friday – Storror (Iain)

Film Friday is a weekly recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.

I’m not sure if the folk in this video should be applauded for their parkour/climbing skill, or whether they should be locked up for attempting to get out of such a dingy horrible pit.

Make up your own mind…

It is much harder to do than you might think….

Film Friday – Can an Average Guy Beat the US Olympic Curling Team (Iain)

Film Friday is a weekly recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.

GQ has a series of videos called Above Average Joe where they takes on the challenge of trying to perform like a professional sportsman.

Spoiler – It turns out professional sport men and women are actually really good at what they do and an average Joe can’t compete with them. But its fun to watch him try…

Film Friday – Travelling Blind (Iain)

Film Friday is a weekly recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.

“Amar Latif was told, aged four, that he would be blind by the time he was 18. However, his lack of sight hasn’t prevented him from experiencing the world. henever Amar travels he relies on someone sighted to guide him. In return he opens their eyes and all their senses to a completely different way of travelling.

Amar is joined by comedian Sara Pascoe as he attempts to open her eyes to the potential of travelling blind and ‘seeing’ the world differently.”

This is a great show in which you can’t help but warm to both of them as they learn about the world through their time together.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00031c7/travelling-blind

Film Friday: Crossing Iceland (Andrew)

Every year thousands of people cycle from John O’Groats to Lands End or the other way around. Riding from one side of Britain to the other is one of those cycling challenges that many people have on their bucket list. Yet, in Iceland, a smaller island, no one had ever crossed it from north to south before last year when an American cyclist, Payson McElveen, mades an attempt at being the first person to cross Iceland from coast-to-coast in one go.

Film Friday – Can I Ride Every Road on Zwift In One Go? (Andrew)

Film Friday is a weekly recommendation of one video to watch this weekend.

Can you ride every road on Zwift in one go is the wrong title for this video. It should be call “Why on earth would you want to ride every road on Zwift in one go?”. A daft, daft challenge. It’s a computer game with cleats, you’re stationary, you’re not going anywhere. If you want to ride for hours, go outside! Anyway, if you want to see if you can do it, watch this video.