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5 Easy Steps To The Site
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In Depth Product Reviews
You probably stumbled upon here looking for a review of a sports gadget. If you’re trying to decide which unit to buy – check out my in-depth reviews section. Some reviews are over 60 pages long when printed out, with hundreds of photos! I aim to leave no stone unturned.
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Read My Sports Gadget Recommendations.
Here’s my most recent GPS watch guide here, and cycling GPS computers here. Plus there are smart trainers here, all in these guides cover almost every category of sports gadgets out there. Looking for the equipment I use day-to-day? I also just put together my complete ‘Gear I Use’ equipment list, from swim to bike to run and everything in between (plus a few extra things). And to compliment that, here’s The Girl’s (my wife’s) list. Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by!
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Have some fun in the travel section.
I travel a fair bit, both for work and for fun. Here’s a bunch of random trip reports and daily trip-logs that I’ve put together and posted. I’ve sorted it all by world geography, in an attempt to make it easy to figure out where I’ve been.
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My Photography Gear: The Cameras/Drones/Action Cams I Use Daily
The most common question I receive outside of the “what’s the best GPS watch for me” variant, are photography-esq based. So in efforts to combat the amount of emails I need to sort through on a daily basis, I’ve complied this “My Photography Gear” post for your curious minds (including drones & action cams!)! It’s a nice break from the day-to-day sports-tech talk, and I hope you get something out of it!
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The Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List
Many readers stumble into my website in search of information on the latest and greatest sports tech products. But at the end of the day, you might just be wondering “What does Ray use when not testing new products?”. So here is the most up to date list of products I like and fit the bill for me and my training needs best! DC Rainmaker 2023 swim, bike, run, and general gear list. But wait, are you a female and feel like these things might not apply to you? If that’s the case (but certainly not saying my choices aren’t good for women), and you just want to see a different gear junkies “picks”, check out The Girl’s Gear Guide too.
I want one :)
I already have a duck, but I’ll take the watch!
same player shoots again.
I tried it yesterday. Nice Watch !!!
round two – looking good
Nice!
Will it make me go faster ?
Would look nice on my wrist =)
This is awesome – thanks Ray.
*ducks*
uhh… This is very nice Ray…
GREAT GIVEAWAY…..
Staggered back out for another attempted… Thanks, again, for the potential to win quality gear.
:-)
Once more, into the breach…..
Take it!
Looks great
Your the man Ray love a polar
where will the winner of the first watch be announced?
cool. great job as usual
The one for me to try! :)
I wont mind this either :)
It is worth it !
If you’re not in you can’t win!
Send it to Austria pleaaase! :)
Realy???
Me please
Nice!
502 Bad Gateway :(
A great site, always come here first for the reviews, trusted. Keep it up.
It fits me better than the duck!
If you’re not in you can’t win, Right!!!
Polar, Polar, Polar, Polar, Polar, Polar, Polar, Polar, Polar, Polar, Polar, Polar,
GPS!GPS!
:D
This site is getting slow due to all the giving away I think!
ugh- it’s 4 o’clock in the morning. i’m nuts
Nice watch Ray ;)
Looks nice!
Better later than never :-)
Speriamo!
Please include the duck! :)
Hope this time it works :)
Love the Duck and the website.
entered!
Here, I want it! ;)
O…. a Polar…. Nice! Thx Ray :)
Nice watch!
It will be a great gift to my wife.
like – or at least hubbie likes it – it looks rather large for female wrists….
oh this would be cool to win!
Would indeed be nice to have, thanks for all this :)
Sweet
I would love one! :)
Throwing my hat into the ring here. Thanks for organizing the event.
I want the duck, I mean, the watch!
Rubber Duckie, you’re the one!
Love the watch, and the Duck
I sure hope I win! Thanks for doing this amazing giveaway!
Go Duck!
and the second
Nice one Ray!
I’m in!
Thanks for organising
Fingers crossed!
back, I am still in
I would love to win a watch like this!
This is madness Ray ;)
Quack Quack Quack
want one 4 sure
Counting on it ;)
I recently got my hands on a used RCX5 (after reading, or more to the point getting addicted to this blog). It came with speed/cadence sensors which I sold off and along with selling my old FT80 more or less upgraded for free.
Anyway it completely changed my running and my running motivation. I am also a very busy traveler for work and managed to ‘collect’ runs all across the world recently (I upload them to FB). My favorites are across London and in Shanghai (as I like to collect runs on a map I prefer ‘one way’ maps and thus one way runs, I take the metro back…..)
SO this coming weekend is my first race, I pretty much last minute decided to upgrade to the full marathon instead of the half have run 18M max in training. (it only cost a few more $$$ for full marathon over half, so better value for $$$ or cheaper per mile, kind of the use speed vs use pace issue). It’s a friendly race only 100 in the marathon and a few more 100s in the 10K and half
I have been training using speed only, and will convert to pace after this race, decided not to cnfuse myself before first race
Lastly my RCX5 allows you to put a personal logo on it I put DCrainmaker (split in 2 DCRAIN above MAKER)
I’m in it to win it!
Here goes nothing!
nice give away. Be happy to win this one :)
Round two: yes please :-)
nice
In it to win it! :)
Fingers crossed!
Yes please :)
I’ll take it.
Woohoo Ray!
I’LL BE BACK
I switched from Polar to Garmin a few years ago .. I’m really curious to see what the improvement Polar has made the last years..
Sweet!
Pick me!!
Jájá , afhverju ekki
I had a Polar HR monitor back in the 80’s. This one looks a little more capable :)
Yes please :-)
Where is the hartrate monitor of the duck?
me pls :)
This Polar should take my training to the next level!
Mr. Duck rules.
i want one of those! it would definitely look shinier and better on me!
Help an unemployed Dutchmen out:)
Nice device. I am in!
Thank you Ray for all that you do for us. I really appreciate your efforts.
Yes please Ray!
Here I am…hoping
Here I am again. Praying
♡
I feel the need,the need for speed