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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 2024 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.
Saturday i did a 18 mile trail run with 5000 elevation feet gain under 3 hours and today (Sunday) was a rest day.
Crossfit, 5 mi run, 20 mi bike.
I plan to race my first sprint tri of the season. The best training is racing!
Saturday: 1 hour of high intensity intervals on my indoor bike trainer
Sunday: 2 hours of easy spin on my indoor bike trainer
180km indoor ironman on computrainer and 9km brick run on treadmill .
Still a metre of snow here so plans are just for skiing
Sat: 45 min Z2 Swim, 90 min Z2 Bike
Sun: 30 min Bike to 60 min Run Brick
10km run Saturday, 1500m swim on Sunday if the weather is ok
Ride 50 miles tempo on Saturday, then a 10-mile endurance run on Sunday. I am training for an Ironman! (Buffalo Springs Lake Tri half-IM on June 29th)
saturday- st pattys day road race and then a fun partner wod at crossfit. sunday- off to nurse my st pattys day hangover!
Swimming!
12 mile long run after way too many weeks without a long run.
1.5 hours on the Kickr Saturday (Clark workout on TrainerRoad), 7 mile recovery run Sunday.
Pacing my 8 year old at the local leprechaun 5k, squeezing in a couple of hours on the bike before the sun sets while she at kids night at the gym and then 6 miles on Sunday while she’s at track practice before the snow starts up again.
Working on a TrainerRoad plan since we are still snow covered and slippery and the temps are well below freezing still, Saturday was Mono (90 min with over/under efforts) and Sunday was Colosseum (90 minutes aerobic).
7.5 km running on Saturday and 26 on Sunday. All kinds of running this weekend.
Saturday: 2 hour ride on indoor trainer with TrainerRoad while watching Netflix
Sunday: Rest
Rest day Saturday and long run Sunday. Hopefully long enough to enjoy some green beer on Monday.
Run at least 10K.
It is not a plan any longer, but a fact. On Saturday driving 11 hours and a bit, today it was an extra long weightlifting as a sign of commitment to return to the gym after some break.
Two miles Saturday, three miles Sunday. Walking, because I’m on my fourth frustrating month of no-running due to SI dysfunction.
endurance building – 75 miles, practice standing on hills
45min run on Saturday morning and rest of the weekend off :)
injured – so 1km swimming with pool bouy and an indoor trainer workout…dreaming of running again
Long run Saturday. Weight training Sunday.
Still recovering from marathon last weekend. Easy 5 mile run Sat and Sun.
Saturday – Half hour weight lifting and 2 hours at theme park that covered 4 miles walked. 6.0 miles or 11,490 steps for the day.
Sunday – 2.4 mile run around the neighborhood, hour lifting weights and, a walk around lake with my Fiance that was a mile. 6.8 miles or 11,817 steps for the day.
12 chicken wings and a large pizza.
Sat. 1hr session including 3
x4 mins and 8x1min.
Sun 90min recovery session.
Since the weekend is almost over this is what I did:
1.5 hour TrainerRoad ride focusing on Over-Under intervals below and above FTP
roller skating with my daughter for the first time
11 miles of single track trail first thing Saturday morning. Watching the fiancee run her first 5k Sunday. No real plans!
Saturday- 5k race followed by 4 mile run
Sunday- an hour of intervals on the trainer
Ran 5 miles on Saturday, Swam 1500 on Sunday
Bike 30 miles on sat
Run 8 miles on
Chill with family.
Too lazy to run. Just disc golf this and next weekend.
3 hour indoor ride on Saturday (TrainerRoad), 10k run on Synday
Chase my 2 and a half year old around the backyard or at the playground. Might also involve some strength/resistance training like squats, lifts and swings.
Nothing but Spring Skiing this weekend!
1hr 15 minute spin on Saturday and a 26k run on Sunday. Walk the dog.
I’m in Florida.
Friday: Beach
Saturday: Beach
Sunday. 10 mile run, beach
Monday: Fly back to 25 degree new england.
Saturday 2 hr Sufferfest video on Trainerroad, 2km run. Sunday 6km run, 1 hr Trainerroad
Saturday: 45 indoor Rowing, watching Firefly on Netflix
Sunday: 7 mile run
13.1 Saturday. 8.5 Sunday
Glass of wine to end the wknd
Saturday – 10k race, going for a PR.
Sunday – Relax and recover from 8 week training program.
Sunday – Determine next event and develop new training program.
I usually do a quick run and some strength training for the upper body!
Quick 15 mile ride Saturday followed by a day of needed rest on Sunday.
Ran over 50 km in the last five days before weekend as well as some swimming and weights.
Took weekend off for recovery.
Just Run 10K on saturday and repeat on Sunday. Happy
Jorge
Just Run, all the time, to feel free.
Patty
Workout plans for the weekend? Keeping up with my 11 month old daughter. She is a speedy crawler just learning to walk!
2 unplanned rest days. :(
Sat: 90 minute ride with 2X18 at FTP. 40 minute brick run as Z3 out and Z2 back.
Sun: 75 minute run as 2X800 Z4 then 1X1 mile at Z4 rest as z2.
5K on Sat
15K on Sunday~
A low impact recovery weeekend riding motorcycles to work the legs and core
Saturday: 10 mi long run
Sunday: Rest day
Skiing @ Copper Mountain!
I live in Bali so weekend is time to run in Kuta beach!
I’m one of those weird people whose long days are not on the weekend – so my Monday morning will be a 8.5 mile run. Good way to start out St. Patricks!
Spent the weekend trying to get rid of a cold that my 2yr old gave me. Yay me :)
1:50 run without watch on saturday… around 12 miles or so, 2500 yd swim on saturday, and 4:00 bike ride on sunday
Sat. 30 minutes at the pool
Sunday – 8 mi run with hill sprints
Rode the Mt. Vernon Trail, ran in the falling snow Sunday night :)
Wait, it is March, right?
Saturday a 1:45m bike/run brick in the moderate temp. Sunday a 1:15m moderate run in a single digit wind chill.
My weekend consists of the last long run: 19km easy, 5km at tempo. Then it’s straight to taper weeks, yay!
Saturday – 90min trainer ride on my roof top overlooking the sea
Sunday – late evening run after Premier League football (soccer!) to the reservoir dam wall and back (11km)
Sat: cycle
Sun: long run
46 mile, fast group ride on saturday. Watch the rain become sleet then snow on sunday.
Hike up the Dog’s Tooth Ridge on Sat. Open water swim on Sunday!
Unfortunately Im not able to get out at all this weekend, next weekend will be a 60km ride with 2km of climbing.
13.5 mi on Saturday 8.5 on Sunday
Glass of wine to end the wknd
Saturday : 9 mike trail run
Sunday : 1.5 mile swim
Friday – Drink to the end of work week
Saturday – HIIT for Cycling
Sunday – HIIT for Running
Sat: 4K Easy
Sun: 8×2 min intervals
I’ve just run a 3 day trail race, which left me shattered at times, it was great fun and I hope to write it up later in the week…
I’m just getting started at this, trying to get myself fit and work up to my first races. This weekend was a 30km ride on saturday and a 12km run on sunday. That was my longest run yet, although my pace was down a bit.
Sat: Sufferfest HellHathNoFury and TrainerRoad
Sun: Endurance 130 km
Sat – corbo load, Sun – local half marathon clock 1.45
Saturday: 5 1/2 hour century
Sunday: 2 hr hammerfest with a little climbing mixed in.
Finishing off Saturdays ride with a Hangover on Sunday 30K, great way to end the weekend.
link to strava.com
Actually I’m taking this weekend off. Did intervals in Friday and will start into a tempo run on Monday. Preparing for the local 10k in three weeks.
3 mile walk with the dogs
After the 3 peaks challenge on 9/3 and hill repeats 16/3, I’m thinking somewhere flat. The almost clichéd Beach Rd, Melbourne
Sunday: 14K (3.5K*4) Mountain training.
Sat: indoor climbing/bouldering :)
swam 2k
20 km MTB and 6 km swim.
Does wanderung around at the beach count?- training again on monday
Only a short 5K run on very early Saturday morning due to busy weekend travel schedule
27, 65 Km running thorugh the monuntains on Sunday morning
5km x 3 hiit
este fin de semana ha tocado descansar y he aprovechado para hacer un reportaje fotografico del maratón de barcelona
lots of resting Walking with my children
Because I was travelling back home from a trip for work, I had no time for training this WE. However, I will enjoy a “nice” interval training uphill tomorrow morning instead: 2 series of 5 times 2’00” uphill and 1’15” dowmnhill with R=3’00”. With this consider me in!
running barcelona maratón
Skiing for the first time in the Canadian Rockies on Saturday and a little run on Sunday :)
I just had a morningrun of 5K.
Sat: work all day – walk the dogs when I got home
Sun: Spin class
It was a race weekend and I ran 1:28:42 in that hm… Thanks for those giveaways…
Saturday: 30min Easy Run + 5x100m strides
Sunday: 15min warm-up + 21k tempo run + 15min cool-down
Sorry, website kept saying fail to publish, never meant to respond more than once…