Heads up! Here’s your massive list of sports tech deals! This includes the Garmin Forerunner 965 for just $499, Garmin Epix for $449, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 Black Titanium for $735, the GoPro Hero 12 Black for $299, and plenty more! Go check out the full list here!
I’m DC RAINMAKER…
Here’s how to save!
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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.
Thanks for all the work Ray! try to take some time to relax now.
i second that! :)
Thanks for doing this massive giveaway! While I didn’t win anything, I still appreciate your time in your postings, reviews, and the generosity of you and Clever Training!
But my name’s not listed? :(
Congrats to all lucky winners!!!
Thanks Ray and CleverTraining. I had to just breakdown and place an order instead.
You made a lot of people happy! Thanks.
Thanks for the giveaway Ray! I didn’t win, but hopefully my comments made a few folks smile!
Congrats all!
It was realy cool! Thank U!
what a day. thank you
I didn’t Windows anything but thanks! Thank you and Clever Training!
Would be nice if even tris post Will receive 4k comments for thanking you! ;)
Thx
Congrats to all the winners!!!
maybe i’ll have better luck next year :-D
Thanks for doing these, it’s always good fun!
Well, snap. Two years I’ve played in this thing, and I’m 0-2. Here’s hoping for next year!
Wow!
This is the first time ever I won something so great!
Thank you, Ray!
thanks Ray, shockingly this post isn’t receiving a thousand responses/posts per hour…?
Thank you for all the giveaways!
Awesome job and thanks for the opportunity. Same thing to Clever Training!
Well at least it was fun. Off to buy some stuff.
Too bad. Better luck next time. Congrats to the winners
Thanks, it was a lot of fun.
Congrarts to all the winners.
Congrats to the winners! Thanks for the hard work, Ray!
Thanks for the opportunity, Ray!
Thanks for the opportunity. Congrats to all winner.
That was a lot of fun, thanks so much!!!
I’ll win next time!!
Thanks Rainmaker for creating such interesting, informative and fun page. You change the face of how a review page must be done.
My first giveaway and was a blast!!!
Congrats to all the winners! One day I’ll be a winner too!
Congrats to all winner. But i want that Fenix, uffff
Thanks Ray, but it was impossible to post a comment, an error message was coming…
Ciao!
Contgrats to the winners! It was nice to be hoping, definitely better chance to win than in the lottery. Thanks for all the hard work, Ray! And thanks Clever Training for donations.
Thanks for putting this together. It was fun, even though I did not win.
Congrats to all the winners.
Might just have to buy some of these items myself!!
What a fun give-away, thanks again Ray and Clever Training … sadly I didn’t win this year but I’ll be back (next year).
Thanks Ray and CT for a load of fun… weirdly having called it a day at 1am, I woke up completely randomly at 4.56 – just in time to enter the last draw though no energy for another groan inducing pun, then straight back to sleep!
No luck as usual, I will try again next year!
Thanks DCR & Clever Training for the fun times!!
Thanks Ray! You’re the best! Love your blogs and such a great giveaway is an epic bonus offcourse, congrats to the winners!
nice work Ray! Winners, enjoy your new gadgets :D …what a race :) .
Great fun
thanks @DCRainmaker :)
Congrats to all winners and Ray – thanks for organizing ! I am Not a winner this year, but maybe next time :-)
Thanks to Ray and Clever Training for their generosity! Congratulations to all the winners.
Thanks for the give away and all your amazing work! And thank you to Clever Training. I love ordering from them.
Wow, I won?! Thank you so much Ray, what a nice and totally unexpected surprise!
Me too – Polar V800! I must say, I was kinda hoping for the GoPro or the Edge1000 but I’m delighted to have won anything. What a great giveaway.
congrats to all winners!
awww didn´t get it this time! I´ll just hope for better luck next year. Thanks for everything Ray, you´re the best!!!!
Thank you, Ray!!! lucky to get the TOM TOM…..its great!
Once again big thanks for massive giveaway to you and Clever training.!
Thanks for doing this Ray. Your site is an outstanding resource and all your effort is very much appreciated. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Ray and Clever Training!
Thanks for putting that on!
Thanks for the fun bro! now I better buy something and pretend that I won it to justify that 2hr madness :D
Cheers!
There seems to have been a mistake! I am not listed!
Congratulations to the winners, next time maybe… Keep up the awesomeness Ray
Great job Ray. Thanks for running the competition. This is by far the best blog or site I visit and your reviews are invaluable. Really appreciate the effort you put into this site.
It’s easier to win the lottery than it is to win one of these giveaways…
This was the first night I was not swearing that the kids were waking up every two hours.
Thanks for the fun Ray. You blog generally does a good job demonstrating how ridiculously organized you must be, but contests like this especially show it. Thank you for all your work.
Now the question is, do I go back through all the threads and see how ‘close’ I was to winning? It’s much easier task with the monthly giveaways.
Congrats Ray and thank you and Clever Training for this Extravaganza, It was really fun!
Disappointment :( but thanks for the opportunity Ray.
Thanks Ray for your hard work! And thanks too to Clever Training! And congrats to the lucky winners!
Congrats to all winners! Ray and Clever Training, a huge thanks for putting this together, great fun and a excellent bonus on the already best blog ever!
Congratulations to all the winners and a huge thank you to Ray and Clever Training for this nice opportunity :)
Thank you, I’m already looking forward to next year! But for now, I’ll just keep enjoying your reviews.
Congrats all! Thanks Ray for organizing this awesome event!
Thanks Ray, these really are a lot of fun! Nice to dream that I might win one day too.
Thank you, Ray and Clever Training! It was a of fun! I’ll be sure to look out for the next giveaway so that I can enter, have fun, and most likely not win anything again. :)
Any chance we’ll see something like this around Christmas time? I think Santa Clause Ray has a nice ring to it…
Thanks, Ray, lots of fun and a reminder of how many cool products you get through reviewing. (And the tweaks to the comment posting format since last year seemed to work really well. Bet the tech team breathed a sigh of relief! I slightly missed the thought of someone clicking the Notify me box and getting a gazillion emails though. ;-)
congrats to all and a big thankyou to Clever Training – and you for organizing this
You never pick me… *runs away crying*
Awwww, you can sit at our lunch table, with me the the rest of our club of Ray’s Loozers, if you want. We used have dues and we were going to have our own contest where everyone would win, but Joey our treasurer got a girlfriend and spent our dues on her. Joey can’t sit at our table anymore. You can have his seat.
Thanks Ray and CT to doing this.
Congrat to all the winners
Congrats, winners!
Thank you for a great event! Maybe I’ll be lucky next year.
Thanks for the fun Ray!
Thank you Ray! Even though I didn’t win I enjoyed the thrill and excitement! Even in the middle of a MTB course I had to check my phone for a new giveaway… The other riders didn’t understand although I tried to explain and get them to participate too. ;)
Shoot, maybe next time. Thanks!
Always an special moment to check the list of winners. But better luck next year…. Thanks for the giveaway action.
Cheers
Appreciate the work you put in on the reviews and the chance, even if for only a day, to dream of updated equipment. One day the Ergomo and the Garmin 310 will actually quit on me and my wife and I will have no choice but to let me upgrade equipment ;-)
Ray, thank you for running such a great extravaganza for us. Congratulations to all the winners.
Congrats to all the winners! Thank you Ray for making it a fun day. I set reminders in my calendar for every 2 hours to check in with the site to see what was next and to be sure I entered. It was fun!
Paul
Thx a lot Ray…
Will take revenge next year :-)))
Steph
Thanks, Ray! This made for an exciting couple days.
Congrats to all the winner and thanks for Ray make it happen. it been funny day
Congrats to the winners. Thanks for a great site with great reviews Ray! Also a shout out to CT for their support as well!
Thanks for the fun, Ray!
Thanks for the effort Ray, keep up the good work!
That was fun. Thanks for the awesome extravaganza. One of these years I better win or else…
…I’ll have to just buy the items myself.
Thanks for the fun, and the sleep I lost. Good job with the site!!!!!
So close! ;) Hope next year is my year. Thanks for some exciting 24 hours!
Thanks for the fun
Really awesome event. I didn’t miss a single chance and look forward to it again! Thank you Ray and Clever Training!
Much thanks to you Ray and CT for the give aways and fun! Congrats to all the winners!
In my dreams last night I saw, crystal clear, that beautiful Fenix 2 arriving at my doorsteps and now I wake up just to realise that I have not won anything… So, so unhappy… :-(
Congrats to the lucky winners and a big and heartfelt thank you to Ray and CT!
Thanks a lot Ray for your great page and these giveaways are like the cream on the cupcakes ;-) even that I didn t win…
Congrats to all the winners
Tnx Ray!!
Thanks Ray & Clever Training!
Thanks Ray! The contest was fun, good picks for giveaways! I wanted everything! Thanks for all the helpful testing and reviews!
Awesome job Ray, thanks a lot and congrats to all winners!
Looks like I won! Stunned! Thank you so much :) Will Clever Training contact us?
Fun reading the contest item descriptions. Congrats to the winners!
Congrats to all the lucky winners.
Ray – Thanks for keeping hope alive.