best camera/video camera for recording your race experience

GoPro all the way.  I just bought one a few weeks ago for a CO trip.  It's insane how great the quality is and there's a ton of ways to mount it to you or your bike.  I've even got a monopod so I can film me with a chase camera...  lol

Here's some video I took of us snowmobiling last weekend.  It was attached to the top of my helmet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxvPMkc2UKA

It's 1080p

This...please don't be that person.

WOW! that looks like so much fun!

Hey, I resemble that remark.  

I love steamboat. i went in 2008 and wish i could go back. Last day b4 we went home we went snowmobiling and it was soooooo nice and amazingly fun.

You have no idea.  It was a blast

I think it's awesome,  Watch the beginning of the olympics and see how many athletes are recording while they march in.  (I know, they don't do it in competition, but we're not talking abut the olympics here).

The talking to himself part?  That depends on what he's saying..

Beginning of Olympics...videotaping...I can understand that.  Running with a video camera and talking to yourself...I completely don't get it.  We triathletes are a sorry enough lot wanting to write race reports and insisting our friends hear about our recent race results.  I just don't think we need to take it to the next level and start videoing our races.  I get videoing a snow board run.  I get videoing a mountain bike ride.  I see nothing interesting whatsoever in videoing miles of a road on a bike or on foot.  As the OP said - "seems a bit vain".

To each his own, I guess. I personally really enjoy viewing these video "race reports". It gives you a much better feel for the event. I watched a couple of Kona athlete videos that I found especially fun to watch. I'll probably never do that event, so it was cool to "come along for the ride", so to speak.

I'm always the guy who has the camera.  I've had a few people make fun of me, but generally after they're done making fun of me they ask me for a copy of the video.  

I get to take my camera to Masters swim in the morning because one of them saw me videoing myself swimming a couple weeks ago and now they all want me to video them.  lol

I get taping your swim at master's - and the previous poster was right...it's an opinion I'm expressing and we all got 'em.