“That is the place I purchase my bread every morning,” is a line that captivated me on this lighthearted movie portrait of path operating phenom Rémi Bonnet, launched again in 2017, within the early levels of his profession.
This throwback Salomon TV episode goes on to point out Rémi making his personal espresso, happening leisurely walks round his idyllic Swiss village, and even dabbling in some afternoon fishing. It virtually feels as if they’re making an attempt to persuade us that Rémi is sort of a actual particular person, or one thing.
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In case you are not accustomed to Rémi Bonnet, he burst onto the scene by successful the 2015 Skyrunner World Sequence within the vertical kilometer self-discipline at 20 years previous, and since then has received the 2022 Golden Path World Sequence, and broke the seemingly not possible course file on the Pikes Peak Ascent in 2023.
However what does a day within the lifetime of Rémi Bonnet, an absolute top-elite athlete, appear to be? We’re proven the kind of devoted coaching it takes for somebody like Rémi to be completely snug operating and scrambling in jagged Alpine terrain, however even the narrators aren’t shopping for it when Rémi tries to persuade us that he’s “probably not a runner.”
So usually although we attempt to “put somebody in a field,” in a half-hearted try and attempt to perceive them as an individual, and it’s refreshing that the wholeness of Rémi is portrayed on this video as a “mountain lover,” and a lot extra. Rémi doesn’t match within the “Operating Solely Field,” however he is rather like the remainder of us, with various pursuits like fishing, metalworking, cooking, snowboarding, biking, climbing, taking part in a little bit of soccer, er, soccer, and generally he even rests!
Rémi doesn’t match within the “Operating Solely Field.” Photograph: Salomon TV
Perhaps most significantly, the narrator felt obliged to share with us that Rémi additionally likes to eat, which brings me again to my captivation with the thought of shopping for fresh-baked bread every morning — and maybe extra importantly — consuming a lot of that bread every day that you should go and buy one other loaf the following morning, and the following morning, and so forth. Might this be the important thing to Rémi’s success?! There is just one strategy to discover out.
Additionally, let’s take a second to have a good time what needed to be the golden age of trail-running filmmaking by the groups behind Salomon TV — on this case, manufacturing firm Wandering Fever. It was an period the place storytelling and motion photographs labored collectively to create intelligent movies like this one. Can we convey this period again?
Within the meantime, we hope this throwback brings somewhat vacation cheer to even probably the most critical path runner.
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Have you ever tried consuming a loaf of contemporary bread each morning, like Rémi? In that case, did it make you quicker?
“Rémi is a cool man.” Photograph: Salomon TV