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Thank you Marie. I get a lot of comments about turning the camera. Unfortunately I can't do anything about my older videos, but I stopped doing this a while back and so you wont find any in my newer videos. I don't use a treadmill myself, so didn't consider how disorientating it was!
@@SwiftTrailsTV I'm teasing, but I really did laugh hard enough to almost fall off when you jumped over the little dog! Words can't begin to express my gratitude to you and everyone who makes these types of videos. I live up north where we have more winter than summer and these make my treadmill runs so much better. 💗💗
@@Andromeda-g5p You got me, I thought you really did fall off for a minute! Haha I have had to jump over dogs in a few other videos too. I've also tripped and fallen flat on my face a few times while recording runs. I plan to compile those into a short video for peoples entertainment! I'm really glad you enjoy these videos. I started making them during the first lockdown, at that time there weren't many videos like this on RU-vid.
Thanks for the great run and scenery! You're so lucky having all these wonderful singing, twittering and chirping birds where you live. In my neck of the woods I'm lucky to hear one every 10 mins.
You must have very quiet birds! I am lucky, I have no shortage of singing birds here. The audio was actually quite bad in this video, I was using a different gimbal that muffled the sound and created a sort of background hum.
@@BrightTrailsTV Yeah that's the one I use. I did have the GoPro Karma drone, which came with a gimbal and that's what I used to record this video - it seemed good because it worked like a power bank too, but not worth it with the bad audio. I purchased the GoPro 12 earlier this year and have been using it with HDR mode, but recently turned that off because even though it improves the colour and contrast, it reduces the quality of the video.
Thanks Pete, it was bloody cold that day 😂 Sometimes I record a route I already know, so I don't need to practice. If the area or route is very new and I don't know my way around I try to practice it once before. Sometimes the run will be too far to justify driving for a practice, in that case I just have to learn it really well using the map and try to remember and use my sense of direction on the day. I do mess up sometimes though and occasionally get lost while recording.
@@SwiftTrailsTV no worries...I got a great workout. I was not in a good mood that day and took it out on the treadmill... sorry that you got involved. Just keep putting out great content like you are doing and I'll keep my bitching to myself : )
Thanks mate. The furthest I've ever run was 20 miles, it was actually the last 20 miles of the Paris Marathon years ago. I don't usually run long distances though, I'm a middle distance runner, so I mainly race 800m and sometimes 1500m on the track.
Thanks Pete, this was my firs time running here, so I didn't know what to expect. I was hoping I could get down to the actual Blackchurch Rock on the beach at the end, but it turns out I needed to take a different path to do that (which would have involved running up a huge hill again).
Thank you 😊 This was the first run I recorded on my new GoPro Hero 12 (I used a 7 for my older videos). But I feel like the quality is worse in the newer GoPro!
@@SwiftTrailsTVThat's odd? Perhaps you need to tweak the settings differently than with the 7? Mine is 10 and it struggles a bit in low lighting conditions. What settings are you using now? Oh and congrats with the new cam! 🎉
@@SwiftTrailsTV Thanks and same to you if you ever find yourself in the US Midwest; it's not nearly as boring as our coastal folks would have you believe. After watching a video by @JeffPelletier, the fell runs in the Lake District sure looked like loads of fun.
Thank you, yes this one was filmed in Devon, about 2.5 hour drive from my house. But my parents were living in the area at the time, so I filmed it during a visit.
Thank you Joe. I had a lot of similar comments about moving the camera. I don't do that anymore when filming runs. So hopefully you might enjoy my newer videos without feeling disorientated!
It was quite challenging running over that bridge! There isn't really any room to overtake, so as you saw, I cut out a small section where I had to stop and ask to pass some walkers. That's mainly why I wanted to get it out of the way first!
You're welcome Markéta :) This was one of my earlier run videos and in my older videos I used to pan the camera around a lot, which many users have commented they don't like, so I edited those out! Ideally, I wouldn't cut anything out, but I need to with my older videos. None of the videos I record now have any panning!
Glad you enjoyed it 😊 This was one of the first virtual runs I filmed, about 4 years ago, so I had to re-edit it to cut out as much of the camera panning as I could!
Thanks Peter, I remember it was a very hot day as well as sunny. I had to run double the distance shown in the video to get back to the car for each section! Well done for staying on for the full run, hope you enjoyed the journey to Bath.
Stunning. Your videos would be perfect without the occasional “scenic camera turns” as it takes away from the immersion of watching on a tv while running on a treadmill at 6 mph, also causes me to lose my balance. I’m sure other fellow treadmill runners would agree. Thanks for the great work!
Thank you for the feedback Hector. You are right, a lot of people commented the same as you. So, since spring this year I've stopped turning the camera when recording new runs, but I do of course still have these older videos where the camera still turns. I didn't think I panned the camera in this video, maybe I did it once or twice, I can't remember!
Thank you so much for this one. I even don’t know where to begin. Thank you for the beautiful purple flowers. Was that lavender. I wanted to stop running and watch the flowers 😅 but I didn’t. 40 minutes straight, hit my 5 km, and walked the rest of the video. Luckily I have to say because that dog around 43 minutes that came out of nowhere 😂spooked me so hard I nearly fall. And I loved the woods area at minute 15:25 or so. Oh and Mr every time you run on the street I pray the lord keeps you safe 🫣 I can’t watch that part. Stay safe and have a nice day.
The flowers are bluebells, they are one of my favourite things about spring, but they also attract my least favourite thing - ticks! Lavender flowers later in the summer - there is actually a lavender themed run on this channel, it's one of my earlier videos. Well done for doing 40 minutes :) If I had a pound (or dollar) every time a dog barked/jumped/chased me during a run, I would be very rich! I try to avoid roads where I can, because you're right they can be very dangerous and they are noisy, but at least this time it turned out well!
Thanks @brighttrails, I'm glad you liked it :) My favourite part is from 00:17:33, but I don't think the GoPro did it justice. I actually went back a few days later and recorded an extra loop in those woods, that's the bit you see when you first enter them!
@@BrightTrailsTV I actually have another one that uses the same woodland as part of its route. So there will be a 3rd video where I combine both routes together into a super 2 hour video!
