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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.
60 mile race with the bike group on saturday.
15x100y on 1:30!
I’ve got my usual group bike ride this Saturday. 70K and then the big highlight… Breakfast. :-)
The ‘Amstel Gold Race’ (last 40km) ride with video on my new Tacx Vortex Smart!
2,000 yard swim followed by a 5k run just before xmas vacation
150km Christmas Eve Eve Bunch training ride.
Finishing the Concept2 Holiday Challenge.
100km Granfondo on trainer in the virtual competition on http://www.rulletour.no
Just finished my 2nd half marathon last sunday. Resume the training tomorrow and 10k road run this Statursday.
Hopefully one more long bike ride before the end of the year!
3000 yards in pool
I’m doing a 5k run every other morning this week with a few friends to help us all get into the routine again post-race season.
Intending to do a 5K park run before year end – first since stress fracture.
Otherwise some Sufferfest races to endure.
Circuit training, alternating upper and lower body
My next race isn’t until February when I’ll be running the Hypothermic Half Marathon in Ottawa. For the rest of 2014, I’m trying to get in two to three 10km tempo runs per week with something longer (at least 16 km) on Sundays.
Getting ready for the Big Sur International Marathon!! There are definitely some 5ks in the very near future…
I will be running on Wednesday 70′ as 20′ warmup, drills, and strides, then 2 x 15′ at 6:45 pace (slightly slower than half-marathon pace) with 2′ jog in between, then cooldown’ back home.
My 60 min ride tomorrow morning in the garage. Not looking forward to it as I’m whipped tonight.
I want to run outside and roll on my trainer every day of my Christmas break. From December 23rd to january 4th. Great way to survive the holidays!
The Cotter Uphill Time Trial with the ACTVets Cycling Club.
The annual event is a 4km climb with 1.5km of undulation and finishes with a 600m downhill sprint to the line.
Set a personnal best time up the hill to come 2nd in C grade by 6 seconds.
Ian be ready for next year I am hunting you down :)
A biweekly ladder interval session as ongoing prep for 10k races early next year: starting with 1 min fast/hard, 1 min recovery, 2 mins fast, 2 mins easy, up to 5min/5min, then back down to the 1 min repeat.
Nothing special, just some runs around the neighborhood and some bike rides on the trainer. Oh yeah, and some present unwrapping on the 25th!
45 minute runs 4 times a week!
Xmas Day long run…probably 10 miles…taking in the sites and watching the traffic and chaos of travelers…can’t wait :)
I’m looking forward to tomorrow morning’s 60-minute recovery ride on rollers in my basement. Wish it were outside though.
Redlands Bicycle Classic. My 1st opportunity to mix it up on the national stage with some of the best racers in the country. Should be a wild ride. Lots of work to do!
Daily cycle training, Saturday races. and trying to get son back to cycling
30 high-intensity x 30 sec stand-up x 30 sec rest
Tacx Col de la Bonette
Getting all ready for a relaxing 6-8 mile run around my home town on Christmas Day. Haven’t been home since I really fell in love with running!! Watch out Tallahassee
Reindeer run 5k in buffalo
correr, correr y correr por la montaña en collserola, Barcelona
Running 10k resolution run
5K run tomorrow – Dec.9th – in northern Ohio
seguiremos corriendo preparandonos para las comidas de navidades, probablemente correré la media maraton de barcelona
correr por la carretera de las aguas en barcelona
correr por la carretera de las aguas con mi esposa
The Run Hard Lexington Half Marathon…our FIRST half marathon here in Lexington, South Carolina, I’m going to push the pace to see if I can come anywhere close to my PR from 15 years ago!
Night training rides couple times a week in So Cal.
Maintainence runs for not. Keep off the holiday fruitcake!
25k, tonight
Training for my first triathlon, so as well as 25 km of trails I’m going to cycle to the start and home at the end (total 70-odd km) instead of driving it… next week.
10k run at 5:00 am tomorrow morning!
Recovering from foot surgery – so I’ll be cleared for running December 23rd..and looking forward to an easy 30 minutes!
90-minute tempo ride on the Kinetic trainer this weekend!
Run three miles tonight… easy day.
A long weekend run through Rock Creek Park in DC and Maryland.
In the midst of the Holiday Challenge – running at least 1 mile everyday from Thanksgiving Day to New Year’s Day.
Trainer road workout with some weight lifting afterwards focused on squats and core work.
Holiday trip to NYC and a run in Central Park.
This sunday I have an Indoor time trial. It’s a 10k TT done on computrainers, very short but fast and painful! These are held once per month through March so you don’t get too fat & lazy during the off season! Plus all the proceeds benifit the juvenile diabetes research foundation!
Hill repeats on the massive hill right outside my house. There’s no great place to warm up, but I’ll eventually get these repeats to not blow up Z5 in the first 2 minutes of my workout!
60/120 Sprint/jog intervals at Linear park in south Florida, At least 10 times. Trying to cut down my 2 mile run time and improve my PT score.
Im running a Chritmas Run. Its a 5k on Dec 20th.
An hour on my trainer if it arrives this week.
Birkbeiner Ski Festival in Edmonton. Cross country ski race.
55km, 55 km with 25lb pack, 31 km or 13 km choice of distances.
I’ll be doing the 31.
Just keep up with the 3 runs a week, one tempo, some intervals and a weekend long run.
Barely a 4k with Yazoo here in Nashville. Beer for me and toys for kids!
“Do what I can” runs until my sore throat goes away.
Christmas run barbados dec 25th. Swim workout 4x100m @ 1:50, 2 min rest, 400m easy,3 min rest, 4x100m @ 1:50, 4 min rest, 500m easy
Nyc 1/2 marathon
I am training for a half marathon in February (melbourne music 1/2 marathon in melbourne, florida). This coming sunday will be my first second attempt at running 9 miles without stopping. I am trying to go slow and steady then run the last few miles a bit faster (just because I hate doing any run without speeding up at the end). I tried a half marathon before and died at the 8th mile so #9 is a big psychological hurdle. My ultimate goal is in 3 years to do a full ironman. I am somewhere between baby steps and my first olympic/international distance right now…haha….so I have a long, long, long way to go…..
I plan on completing the Tour of Sufferlandria at the end of January. It is neither a workout or a race, but rather it is more than a week of pure agony!
A three mile run. Just trying to stay relatively in shape.
Hoping to get a short night cross country ski in this week, and a long one this weekend… And will try to come up with a way to get some speed training in for a 5km Resolution Run Jan 1st!
Ironman Melbourne 2015
12K’s of Christmas in a santa fatsuit!
The dallas marathon on December 14th.
Currently training for a half marathon in may. Going on my long 14k run as we speak…gotta love Mondays :)
Riding my bike to the grocery store? Actually, trying to plan out doing ‘a’ race in each month next year and the associated running that goes in for that.
15km run in Wetter/Hessen (-2°C, Snow and Ice!) followed by Sauna :-)
Regular rides on the trainer and hopefully some snowshoeing and sledding with the kids!
20 KM Trail Running from Kemensah to Sungai Pusu on 13/12.
Pick it back up & turn around training from Thanksgiving Day half marathon to a fast 10K on New Year’s morning.
10 mile run on Xmas day!
No well structured workouts, but 5k runs every time it’s warm enough out for me to breathe and if I win I’ll probably go for a nice trainer and then I’ll be doing a LOT more.
60 minute Kettlebell bootcamp tonight
I plan to spin on an old Spinervals trainer for the rest of winter.
15 miler from Kirkland to Seattle this weekend