Head Cam Video of Sprint Orienteering Race
What happens when you combine sprint orienteering with a head cam, a GPS watch, and the new VeoGeo site? A maniacally breathless mashup!The action is from BAOC's sprint orienteering event held at Spring Lake Park in Santa Rosa, California on September 17, 2007. The video captures controls 1-7 of James' race.
By the way, Spring Lake Park will play host to the 2009 USA orienteering team trials for the Sprint discipline.
Here are the links:
- VeoGeo: (synced YouTube video and Gmap)
- O-map: (scanned jpeg, so you can armchair orienteer along the way!)
- Head cam consisting of Cannon SD630, foam, and elastic. It fits pretty snug actually. Started slipping a little after control 8. Original video capture is better than the YouTube compression.
- Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS watch with heart rate monitor. Easy to operate, falling in price.
(some pictured in this post and previously, others glimpsed in the video):
- Brunton Jet6L thumb compass,
- Scarborough-O magnifier,
- First test of the new Scarborough-O "dsh-vv" description sheet holder (I usually use Silva's holder purchased in Sweden),
- Trimtex V-Neck all-mesh top (2005 USA uniform),
- AxisGear Atak pants,
- Neoprene socks, and
- Inov-8 270 orienteering shoes.
Labels: GPS, head cam, orienteering, veogeo, video
posted by James Scarborough at 10:27 PM
2 Comments:
Nice post-Cold War ushanka.
I did the same (only headcam, no GPS) at the first World Cup Round this year, to be seen here,
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v646482NtSfd536?c=wootv
and with both GPS & headcam at the WOC 2007 sprint in Ukraine this year,
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v1044893qHmgt9DH?c=wootv
(a clip after 40 seconds of this video - I did not put out all the video this time)
Method: I generate an AVI video of the map with the track from my Forerunner 305 using an add-on I have made for Routegadget, and then just put the map alongside the headcam video. Works very nicely - and the work involved to make the video is not much. I am planning to put up speed the last minute in minutes/kilometer and heart rate at the bottom of the screen in addition - should not be a big problem to do that. I have been experimenting a bit with the speed part lately here - just putting up the speed in minutes/kilometers at the map,
http://news.worldofo.com/2007/09/24/routechoice-with-speed-nm-night/
I am indeed planning to use this as a training tool, as I can generate these videos quite easily with little work involved. I think using one in a group of young runners as an example, and going through it together should give a good training effect for all of the group. We'll see this winter;-)
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