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I did a test with the VholdR ContourHD helmet cam on a small jump in the backcountry of our neighbourhood some weeks ago and fiddled with the entire VholdR setup. The mounting, the recording, the transferring , the editing (with all sorts of software) and then posting to VholdRs video community.

The VholdR’s mounting system I used was the enclosed goggles-mount. Very easy to attach and it fit well and worked flawlessly with my SPY goggles and also when wearing helmet. I did though on my later trip to Sälen Sweden find that at high speeds, the camera has a tendency to wobble (Ill post a video of that later).

Recording could not be easier… Slider forward to start recording, and slider back to stop recording. Look around, and it will record what you look at :) only downside is the plastic cap protecting the battery and SD-card kept coming off when I was operating the recordingslider. 

Transferring the captures is also simple, attach the mini usb and a folder appears on your computer and then you just drag and drop. Same usb is used to recharge the battery.

Editing… oh my… that’s an all together different story… First of all I had problems enough with  just finding some intuitive software that would work with the H.264 format .mov files, then more problems with simple editing  tasks and in the end removal of sound.

Posting to the community is done from the VholdR Easyedit software or right on the VholdR community page, either way click upload and guess what ? well yeah it uploads…

And finally here is the embedded clip of  me doing a quick 180, no grab, no nothing.

The VholdR ContourHD is one of the coolest gadgets I have ever purchased. If  you ski, snowboard, basejump, paraglide, windsurf, race cars/bikes, skateboard or mountainbike, go get one :)

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Sadly not purchesed before the annual skitrip with the offpiste-gang, though still in good time for some winter fun :) So keep posted for some helmetcam videos from my Vholdr ContourHD 720 in a few weeks time. Also a full review of the (I think) awesome looking Rossignol Bandit SC86 that I look very much forward to testing in the near future. I hope they will bring as much fun as my old K2 Public Enemy skies that have been passed along to someone else via the classifieds on www.skisport.dk

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Had to do a one day trip to Odense and back to pick up some furniture. It was a drive well over 500 Km. and this tune fit perfectly to driving in the dark.

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Took the kids for some outdoor fun while at Skallerup Klit Feriecenter.

We did the Jungle path and spent some time on the playground before we headed to the beach.

The sand dunes were quite steep, and I promised them all Ice Cream if they could get one of them to the top - and so encouraging some teamwork :)

They bolted for the dunes headon, and with some fails they eventually prevailed :)

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Ohhh yeah I did it. I managed to complete my goal of running the ½ Marathon in under 1:30:00 – This is the final of the 3 goals I set out for some 3 years ago.

• 5 K. in under 20 minutes = DONE
• 10 K. in under 40 minutes = DONE
• 21 K in under 1 hour 30 minutes = DONE

Result list is under “events completed”

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A little over 5 years ago our house looked like this…

That was then, this is now…

5 years from now, I hope I am having tequila’s in the shade on some distant beach – far far away from mortar, bricks and back-pains.

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Joined the kids in the 1 K. children’s race in Lundby bakker, and all of us had a fantastic time. On the count down all off the kids joined in and on “GO”  they sped off  – not waiting or holding back for anyone :)

Competitive little fu… these y2k kids ;)

Crossing the line after what was like a full-on sprint, the reward was nothing short of GOLDEN.

Highly recommendable for kids <10 years, and their parents.

We will be there again next year.

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I was in San Francisco visiting HP ProCurve – Did have time to run the Golden Gate vey early last Friday, that will be the bridge behind me ;)

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Is over and done with :) Was a good race despite some minor things like no signs after 35 km… Thankfully a runner with local knowledge and a friendly bicyclist helped, and we found the route again at 39 km. At the finish line my marathon had been 1 K. longer that it should have been :(

Despite this rather annoying mishap, I actually enjoyed the run – sure it was very hard the last 10 km. but what race isn’t, and now its done so I can return to running the races I really enjoy, like  10 km.  and ½ Marathon.

Maybe next year ill try another full marathon who knows.

Result is under the “events completed” page.

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Managed to do a little better the second time around 1:36:52 and the result is also under events completed.

Next event is Fjordmarathon on home turf, right here in Aalborg on 6/9 – 2009

I sadly had to cancel the Berlin Marathon (something came up) so instead I am hopefully going to complete my first ever marathon here in Aalborg instead.

Berlin might be there next year also ;)

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