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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.
Working on guard duty in my hospital. Will try to get 1 hour without phonecalls to do a 1h interval training on my trainer
Early morning 3 mile run around my neighborhood!
seim intervals – 10×100 followed by 1500 en block
50+ mile bike with some friends and loved ones
Ray,
PUtting on a Duathlon clinic tomorrow in the OC…fun hard efforts for Valentines Day.
Thanks again for the giveaways.
Matt
I will be going to bed EARLY tomorrow night as I am running a half marathon Sunday morning!! Hubby understands and is taking me out tonight for Valentine’s Day and then getting up early with me Sunday morning to support me in my race.
9 miles long slow day
A long ride on my bike with a 45 min break at her work. I will surprise her with a lunch!
Step Class then yoga
Happy Valentine’s Day
A 45 Km mountain bike ride of mud and love :D
Swim drills… and secretly hoping the pool will be a little emptier on Valentines afternoon!
I am going to race to the kitchen to make breakfast!
Going on a run – no gadgets, no measurements but my running gear and the solitude of a morning run. Just going with the flow.
Up for an early bike ride… Whilst the wife sleeps in :-)
A his and her short brick… Mine in the morning, hers in the afternoon (somebody’s gotta watch the kids, right?!)
Recovery run, nice and easy 5 miler first thing
Testing day to renew my cycling license
Did a 10k treadmill at 06:00 tonight, and will be doing a 5x5RM pyramid of deadllifts tomorrow :)
8 mile run along the acqueduct while the Mrs follows along on her beach cruiser.
valentine’s day training is a 6 mile easy run
50 shades of pain
70 minute run in the brutal cold, bring it on NE Ohio!
Tri Club Aquathon for me. Actually the sister in law is doing it with me.
Planning a Valentine’s Day 10 mile training run! Getting ready for Fargo Marathon in May!
Tri Club swim session in the morning then rest up before Sunday’s long run.
I will be (possibly) going for a hike with my gal since there doesn’t seem to be any snow out here in the PNW to go xc skiing on…
T25 – Ab intervals and Speed 1.0 and/or a 10K
I’m resting, 11 mile trail run on the 15th! A nice run through the forests of Tennessee in the Dark Hollow Wallow!
Just an Easy paced 4 mile training run.
Now i will cycle 500 miles and i will cycle 500 more, to see one off your free goodies land through my door.
Quick sufferfest vid…
Swim practice with the GF and latter some biking to the parade rout. Happy Mardi Gras!!
Weights then Parkrun today, an easy 5km, leg day at gym will be followed by16km treadmill run tomorrow
Side by side trainer ride!
Doing the 5k Waterworks parkun in Belfast with my Mrs! She’ll beat me again. :(
Planing to do a 10km Workout on Saturday.
Morning piste skiing from 9:30 to 13h CET and at 17h afternoon 3km indoor swimming pool easy swim.
He will be fishing, I will be running.
The original plan to was race with my husband (Run4Love 5k). My hamstring injury now dictates my exercise routine so it’s the ArcTrainer for me tomorrow. Argh.
Take it easy swimming session, finishing with sauna and jacuzzi! :)
25km long run!
I have a 2 hour trainer ride and 2400 yard swim on the docket for tomorrow.
Track workout. 8x800m, 8x400m, 8x200m
Late breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast. Then a day of shopping with my wife (and pedometer) followed by a steak dinner without our kids. I even made reservations on my own! There will be no real workouts on Valentines day. That day will be spent with all attention to my wife and family.
I plan to take my honey for a drive up the coast, and we may bring our mountain bikes for a little scenic riding as well.
Rest day here :)
On valentine’s day I plan to take 5k run in the morning and some swimming session in the afternoon. My best friend has just started doing cardio training for weight-loss. Now, keeping in mind that my old sigma pc15 just died last week and my friend is looking for a heart monitor (actually he is planing to obtain chinese gadget from alibaba, God please help him!), your gift would be highly appreciated and solve our problems a little bit !!!
Kennekuk Fat Ass Trail Run.
10 km race pace for valentine’s day (preparation for my first half marathon)
Had planned on a Valentines Day 5k but thanks to the snowpocalypse in Boston that’s been postponed. Aiming for 6 and 11 miles over the weekend before we get even more snow
Bike ride on Sat. and long run on Sun…YIPPIE!
Rest day for me today after training every day this past week :)
I’ll be out doing the weekend long run with my wife / valentine!
As tomorrow is both Valentine’s Day and my wedding anniversary myself and my husband will be rising bright and early for a warm up walk to Valentines Park where we will both be dressed in Red and volunteering to cheer on the other runners. After that we are going to have a strenuous day relaxing together with a nice lunch and together time.
It makes a change from my 21 mile run last week and the 22 miles I have planned for next weekend.
Another great reason to exercise with my wife!
No training; just recovery from a vasectomy on Friday. The ultimate Valentine’s day gift.
Recovering from hernia surgery
Does digging out of a blizzard in Boston count as training?
Probably my best shot is to recover from the bad cold, and then expect to be up and running soon.
For Valentine’s Day I will be watching our kids while my wife does her C25K training program. Then on Sunday the whole family is doing a 6 mile trail run/hike at Crestline Ecological Preserve in Crest, CA.
A small portion of Valentines Day will be spent in the pain cave trying to make up for lost time this season due to injuries – Zwift + TR + Pop Punk Classics on Slacker Radio.
10km hill training (without hills though as I live in the flat Netherlands) :)
2 hours of mountainbike on the sweet singletrack in Tisvilde forrest in the north-east of Denmark.
5 miles and chest workout.
I’m definitely getting some endurance training in, but it will have nothing to do with swimming, biking, or running if you catch my drift. Maybe I’ll wear the HRM-RUN strap from Garmin during this “exercise”.
I will work out to get my goal I have hypertension, I need to work out more pften if I win it will help me monitoring my miles and heart rate etc
Running with mi wife and my son, tisana coul be my perfect s. Valetine day.
But the first is too tyred and the second too young
Cooking dinner, push ups and cleaning the floor :)
I am running a local 10k with a bunch of my local running friends from my running group MRTT.
I’ll be heading out early for a brisk 10k run whilst my wife looks after the kids. I get home, tag up so she can go for a swim. Then a late brunch and on with the weekend as a family.
11 mile long run along the Waterfront of St Thomas US Virgin Islands, followed by a cool down dip at Brewers Bay.
i will do some Running Intervalls. Regulär saturday ahead ;)
10 mile trail run
Cross country skiing in the sun
Due to an injury that’s keeping me from running, it’ll be 40 minutes on an exercise bike and some weights at the local Y.
The Puppy Love 5K
Running 5K with my wife celebrating 14 years together
Me and my wife prepare for the upcoming half marathon in April. So tomorrow we will make a lovely run together and then head for a swimm ;)
on Valentine’s Day I will do some easy 8km since on Sunday I will have a long of 34km in my marathon training for Rome 2015 in March. Ciao Ray! ;-)
sports and diner
so are both the winner :)
A long mtg ride while my so watches the kids. Also yummy dinner.
Snowboarding and trying to stay warm!
Skiing with son
3 hour easy cycle, outside for the first time since I broke my wrist in a bike fall 8 weeks ago. Bored of turbo now!
1.5hr swim and then 3 hr bike for me. The wife is still recovering from surgery
10K race, last training race before Malta Marathon next week
Well since the Cascade Mountains seem devoid of snow and my ski class is cancelled for the 3rd or 4th week in a row (I’ve lost count at this point) I think brunch and a nice balmy 60 degree stroll around Alki Point might be in order, then maybe hit up the REI winter clearance because how can you pass that up??
I will be resting on Valentine’s Day. Long run on Sunday.
No workout, but a rest day (+ maybe some run pick-ups) in preparation for a half marathon race on Sunday.
Bike run brick: 1 hr race pace bike, 2 hr zone 2 run. If I have enough energy left hopefully it will be followed up by a whole lotta fartlek style hip thrusters at night…. Schwing !!
A 6k run. Which is all my physio will allow me to do while i recover from that more than anoying back problem.
Nothing fancy. Rollers it will be, first time after weeks being sick.
Going to San Diego for a recovery weekend. Will hike every day.
10mins of yoga and 1 hour of zone2 trainer ride
We are both running on the beach tomorrow as a romantic run. Hot chocolate afterwards offcourse. This for our half marathon in Paris the 8th of March.
on Valentine day i asked my wife what she would want, here awnser, just a complete day with my husband. So i won’t be training tommorow but serving her breakfest in bed and spending the intere day together.
I’ll be running 3 miles early in the morning, then off to eat a nice brunch to get the day started.
Spin on the trainer with intervals followed by a lovely hike on the AT!!
Relaxing run with the girlfriend on the first day of our holiday/training camp(!) in Lanzarote
About 50km bike TT, with 12km run off-the-bike
For valentines I’m doing an 11 mile run with my team from Team in Training.
I would get myself the Vivoactive so I can have the live tracking for when I go on runs or bike rides alone. The second gadget would be used for a raffle to raise more money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
We will take it easy with just a light 6K to be able to enjoy the rest of the day. ;) Finger crossed !