health and fitness: The Spine Race 2015: 'The camera became my little friend'

mardi 4 août 2015

The Spine Race 2015: 'The camera became my little friend'

The winter Pennines challenge does strange things to people, and during filming for the Spine Race Film, Damian Hall and his GoPro camera became oddly close

It’s still strange seeing yourself on screen, even in our smartphone age. In the Spine Race Film, I don’t look nearly as heroic as I’d hoped. I teeter in the wind. I slur my words. The eyes don’t lie, apparently, and in mine you can clearly see fear and vulnerability. I thought I was some kind of warrior of the wilds, impervious to all that the weather and the race could throw at me. It turns out, I’m a bit of a wimp.

As apocalyptic storms battered the 2015 Spine Race in January, Summit Fever Media made a film of the race that rightly calls itself “Britain’s most brutal”. I tried to capture as much as I could of the runner’s perspective on a GoPro camera.