Silk Road Mountain Race (SRMR)

This is really good!

Also kind of surprising, different to my experinece. Seems kind of more hectic and more social. Of the 10 days and 3 hours my race took, I spent about a few hours with another human at a CP, a shop or something and about 10 days alone, didn't really have contact with the film crew. My race might have been monotonous to watch as it was rather uneventful, in a good way. And I'm not that chatty.
In the q&a they mentioned problems with the lack of electricity, as you stay out for several days and ride too slow to charge with a dynamo, but that can't have been a surprise. And similarly, you mostly know what works if you've been bikepacking before.

The concept of telling the story is more entertaining than the usual chronological way of just following what the racers do. But it's weird to think that he already apparently had a script for what he wanted to show and then went to find the scenes he wanted along the race. But of course it is a true story, all that actually happened there. But that's how I understood the film was made, listening to what he said in the premiere and in a podcast earlier about the AMR.

The old soviet hotel mentioned and very briefly shown there was before the race in Talas, not during the race.

Just some thoughts about this, thinking back to how the race was for me. I loved the race and I like the film a lot too.