My dad died the weekend before my 38th birthday. I didn?t learn until a few days later that one of the last things he did was buy me a birthday gift. It was a fun little GoPro Hero 2 Camera, something I?d mentioned in passing that I wanted to mess around with on running adventures and otherwise. The cameras are made for extreme sports?surfing, snowboarding, motocross, etc. As a father of two boys, my extreme life is limited by the necessity of staying alive for a while (you?ll find me riding motorcycles and jumping out of planes when I?m 80).
Nonetheless, my dad and mom bought me the camera, my dad insisting I get it in time for the half marathon on my birthday. As it turned out, I was too emotionally wrecked to figure out how to use a camera for that. Since then, it?s been sitting here as a reminder.
With no crazy cliffs off which to jump or cars to drive fast, I turned to a couple things in my life that make for fun video: my kids and running. The effort is still a little raw, but I can see myself having fun with the camera, extreme or not.
Here?s an afternoon with my older boy in less than two minutes:
And here?s a bit from a race we rean this morning. Still working on a way to get the horizon line right on my head when running?
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