49th San Blas Marathon Video, from the Route

This ‘From the Road’ video covers the entire half marathon route and was shot on the morning before the race. Shot from the roof of my SUV with a modified VadoHD videocam mounted in a custom made bracket. The original 1.75 hour trip was compressed into 11 minutes and zips right along. Because the camera tracks with the SUV, you do not get a sense of how steep it is in places. There are a few ‘burps’ in the video near the end before I ran out of battery. Music for the video was courtesy of The Free Music Archive.

A special ‘thank you’ to the police for letting me through 2 road-blocks. Otherwise, this would have never happened.

The route itself was redirected as you approach the Coamo Plaza as there was a crane in the middle of the road.

The best time: 1:03:09 was turned in by James Kwambai of Kenya who had also won the race in 2005 and 2009. The fastest female runner was Yolanda Caballero of Colombia with a time of 1:14:48. Images of the runners can be seen from the main post here and on the 2nd page of images as well.

A 2nd video has been posted up! The video featuring the runners as they pass by us, just before the 15th Kilometer mark and it is a longer video at 13:40 minutes! It was all downhill from there.