This is not a sponsored post. My husband and his family gave me a GoPro for my birthday.Â
It was so nice to have the GoPro to use at RAGBRAI Day 7. I knew I would want to take photos to document our trip, but definitely didn’t want to use my cell phone – that’s just too dangerous (for me, anyway).Â
With the GoPro mounted on my helmet, the trip documentation was a second thought and I just enjoyed the ride! This is a big deal for someone who is constantly getting their phone out to take pictures – it felt so freeing! I never worried about capturing anything, but I was super curious/excited to see what the GoPro did take photos of!
As we started the trip, I set it to take a photo every 60 seconds (it goes down to a photo every .5 seconds!), and only looked at it a few times at stops to make sure it was still taking photos. I also stopped toward the end to switch it over to video camera mode for our descent in to the finish (which I could have done via an app but did manually). And that was all the futzing around I did with it. The GoPro is super easy to use and I am stoked to use it MOAR!!! My parents gave me a head strap for it so I can take it on runs, too (in case I don’t want to wear my helmet when running… maybe not a bad idea?!).Â
The only bad thing during the ride was that I think the weight of it made my neck a bit sore – but that could be my bad posture on the bike. Also, it ran out of battery half way through. BUT! My friend Dave had loaned me TWO batteries (cause he rocks) so I was all set with a spare to swap it out!
So, anyway. Along with my earlier post about the ride, I wanted to share what the GoPro was documenting. It remembered a lot more than I did! (There are only two things I am bummed it didn’t capture – the “giant” strawberry in Strawberry Point (so I could show Steven how not giant it is and my mom would see it’s okay that he didn’t get to see it) and the Amish communities we rode by. I am happy it did NOT capture the road kill that people decorated… even though Dad found that very amusing.)
Nice job with everything!!! Don’t you love gopros? I took one with me for all four races of the Dopey Challenge, but I did movies instead of photos. Love it!
I do really like it! This was my first time using it. What program do you use to edit your videos?
Ahhh, well to be honest, I’m a TV producer in real life, so I use professional apps. Adobe Premiere Pro right now. But I used to use Final Cut and also Avid.
I thought that might be your answer! I used to have Premiere (when I was in design college) and never got the hang of it. I should try something out again.
Holy cow! What an adventure! And the GoPro is AWESOME! My brother has something similar but he actually wears it to concerts and camping. Congrats on an awesome ride, girl!
Thanks! 🙂
I am excited to take this thing on other adventures, too!
COOOL! I loved looking at all the pics last night, but now knowing the story behind them makes it so much better!
You’re hooked on the pickles now, hey? 😉
I want to know the weird guy conversation!
Hahah at people not knowing what corn looks like vs soybeans. Honestly, it’s hard for me to imagine not knowing the difference. I still have to show you what the tobacco fields look like when you come visit next week!
Now they make sense! Sorta…? 🙂
Ha ha ha! Apparently. After I saw someone advertising them I told Dad how much they helped at our 10 miler and I knew it would be smart to have one!
You will like this story, since it’s about your FAVE song. A DJ was playing Baby Got Back and I was singing and dancing along, and that guy (who had been talking to Steven) goes “You know this song is about a guy putting a peni5 in a girl’s vagina, right?” Um. Yes. Why are you telling me this? It skeeved me out!
Oh yeah! I forgot we were talking about the tobacco fields!
WHAT!?!?! Did that guy try to have ‘the talk’ with you? Hahahahaha.
I have no idea where he was headed with that, so I kind of walked away. ha ha
NO HE DIDN’T! LMAO
LOVE getting to see all these photos!!! So much fun!
Are you going to post the video of the finish?
I don’t know if I will post it or not, since I am not very good at editing videos, and it’s over 17 minutes long. We shall see!
I love this! It’s such a great way to share the story. And I really enjoyed the disclaimer 😉
My brother in law used a Go Pro while we were in Colorado, mounting it to the windshield as they drove up the mountain and to film the kiddos “hiking.” I never thought I’d want one … until then.
Gotta get that disclaimer in there. I hate that. Anytime I want to talk about a product, I feel like I just shouldn’t, cause I have to put that in there and it annoys me.
That is a fun way to use it! There are SO MANY cool things you can do with them!!!!
I loved looking through these photos! Someday I’ll do RAGBRAI…probably after I set aside enough money to buy a bike. 😉 I remember seeing a lot of recumbent bikes when the ride came through Marion when I was a kid. Must be a RAGBRAI thing. Glad you enjoyed your ride!
What a neat thing to do – I love the random pictures and your captions on each one. Super fun!!!
I’ve LOVED these updates. So damn cool!
Such a cool way to document a cool event! I love this post!
That’s so neat! I love this post and seeing your adventure through the camera’s eyes.
I wish I had a Go Pro for Ragnar. Ah, Christmas will be here soon enough.
Thank you!
And YES. Get one! I can’t wait to use it on some runs. 🙂
this post was awesome!
Great idea letting letting the camera shoot every 60 seconds! Loved hearing the story through the lens! 🙂
I’ve always wanted to do this! Tried to get a group together in 2006 but it never flew. And I struggle being gone for the entire event and leaving the family home. Yet I don’t want to go for just a day or two. Oh well, I’ll get there eventually.
I am sure it will be around for a long long time so hopefully it works out at some point!
That’s a cool way to re-live an event like that! I’m not too familiar with the GoPro so it is neat to see.
I’m from MD and I’m amazed that people wouldn’t know what a corn field looks like! heh.
I’m also very curious about your roundabout conversations… I’ve had a few conversations with others about them myself over the years.
what a cool way to recap your event. I’d love to see the video!
Coming BACK to comment because this RAGBRAI story hit our local news in AL today and I thought you’d appreciate it 🙂
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/07/genetic_disease_threatening_9-.html#incart_river
Thanks for sharing! I think I actually saw them!
What a great ride report and then the photos – wow! You are definitely taking advantage of the GoPro – very cool! I always think that I want to take more photos during organized rides, but then I don’t. That’s probably the great thing about that camera, it makes it easy to take photos.
That is exactly it! It’s a second thought. Or really, a third though. You just start it and let it go and enjoy the event as you would without it!
I think this is my favorite of the RAGBRAI posts – it’s so fun to follow along with you and the GoPro!
Thanks! It’s so fun to see what it gets photos of!
Did you eat at the PB&J place? I rode the last two days of RAGBRAI with my mom a few years back and LOVED it. Your pictures are incredible!!!
I didn’t! Is that something at the end or in one of the pass-through towns? I love that you did two days of it!
Thanks!
Great post! I loved seeing all of your pictures and sort of following along in your adventure.
Hmm, makes me want to go one too. Would be fun to use during my last three Disney races this year.