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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 have 7 recovery miles scheduled, including a few strides to get those legs moving.
Kick a cold and map out the half marathon program.
8 x 500m intervals all out
A 1,5 hour run….
i have a 60 minute lactate threshold run planned from the Sufferfest Intermediate Triathlon plan. Not too painful and I might take my wonderful Billy dog to join me.
5 km run, I am still trying to convince the other half that it beats dinner in a fancy restaurant!
today is restday
That’s a cloudy day today, first I’ ll go to the mountains making a walk on the snow with snow-raquettes watching the sunset and then I ll be back home and go running with my headlamp through the fields near home
Cycling: 4 hours easy riding with some sprints in between
A 10 miler in sunny and sultry Singapore
Im going to take morning run with my husband around Grimsta nationalpark and altererades spenlinimentet the dag with my lovley family.
Parkrun for her, Group ride for me
I’ll be up at a friends cottage playing hockey on the lake with my kids. Exercise and fun with kids and friends. It doesn’t get better.
I’ll be spending Valentines going for a short run followed by a heavy density workout. Should be fun!
26 k long run
Today’s a rest day, so off to work on a Saturday. Yay!
Rest day today – might manage a brief jog later; but time to spend with her (and the kids!)
I’m going for 50-60km easy riding after a three months break
Going for a short run with my girlfriend :)
A 185km extremely hilly bike ride to prepare for a 235k race in a few weeks. In the heat.
If V-Day training plans include extra curricular actives with the wife…then that is my plan.
doing a biathlon relay…she’s running, I’m biking…
A hardcore gym session in the morning, a trainer workout in the afternoon and two slalom runs in the evening!
Bike/run brick
Normal training run
Driving through France to get to the Alps and the skiing
Just a 30 min jog today. Then it is all about the girlfriend
A quick running workout.
I’ll run Paris marathon in 2 months, so it will be more or less 15km including 5km at marathon pace for me today.
a 60 k mountainbike session followed by A 5 k run.
A 20-25K run in the morning and about 1 hour cross country skiing in the afternoon together with my wife :)
I would have run here in Israel on my holiday as part of my preparation for the Rotterdam marathon + there is some great running uphill. Only I’m having fever for 2 days + a minor injury in my leg….but we stay positive :)
Going to the “Run With Me 10k” event and run 15k just for fun.
No sport plans, just nice dinner with the lady
Nordic ski with my wife, weather is beautiful in here
I will run 8k to my girlfirends work with bunch of flowers and candies :)
Have an orchestra concert in the evening, but if it’s 55 and sunny, I taking the bike out for however far I can get in 90 minutes or so.
Going to a wedding… Dancin’ dancin’!
Out for a long walk run with my two Wheaton terriers Missy and Merlin.
Going to swim 3,000 yards,
Thanks for the contest
Perfect schedule: Valentine’s day is rest!
I´m going for a run and do some core and then I´m gona hug my sweetheart
Hiking up the Cedar Butte Trail.
Was gonna ride out in the chilterns back woke up with flu so will have be a duvet day
Getting out of the house with my eldest son (7 years old) and going for a run together for the 2nd time. Win win for my wife and I!
Today is recovery day! :)
10K Recovery run after dog bite on Thursday and whole day at hospital yesterday. Well, it could be worse :)
Long easy run with 5-6 strides
A 5k ParkRun – followed by tea and cake!
Yesterday I spent more than four hours on bike in Finnish winter. Today is a day for “recovery training” by going down a hill on a sled with my kids.
Today is for recovery, but for sunday there’s 12 miles with easy pace on the cards
My training plan is to get rid of the cold I’m currently stuck with.
50mile bike ride!
8 k run for me and to all of you guys, a happy Valentine’s Day!
10 miles run in the morning.
As I recently broke my collarbone in a crash on the track my training today will be a lite 45 min. on the Kickr. That is all my body can take so far. To bad all my good winter training is slowly fading away.
Probably just a longer and faster dogwalking, donuts and a cup of coffee with my significant other :)
A shuttle day on the Enduro bike, ending with a few epic crashes, the bike in at the shop for repairs and arms bloodied up for the nice dinner out….
Ten pin bowling…thats good for a bit of an arm workout right?!
My Valentine’s Day training will include 9 hours of work but after that Im going to the gym for an hour with my valentine :)
1H on the rollers, easy gear and spinning for racing on sunday.
An 8k bog road run while my six year old son accompanies me on his bicycle!
A long walk with my wife through our crowded neighborhood.
3700 meters lap swimming and 1h bike indoor! :)
Trip to Antwerp with the girl :)
core training + easy 1 hour run
3200 meter swim , 5 hr bike , 20 min run, with husband at home preparing the recovery feast. IMNZ in three weeks :)
A 45min run in this cold rainy day. It should be snow but…… ehhh who cares….
work till afternoon, dining in the evening.
rest day for both of us.. :)
3,5h ride – Z2, with 5×20′ Z3 tempo, and 10×1′ Z4
Absolutely no plans other than recovering from flu.
Long ride lasting ~ 3 hrs. w power surges and a 10 min. FTP towards the end of the ride.
1h swimming + sauna (with my valentine) + 1.5h slow long run + evening with “Fifty Shades of Grey” (with my valentine) :)
A 1hr Z3 ride on the trainer, that’s it.
Rest day after we both donated blood yesterday! Small breakfast in bed delivered by lovely husband and homemade Valentine’s special brunch later today. Tomorrow 5k run for me and 10k for him!
My wife and I did a 44mile brick in honor of the 44 men slayed in battle with Rebels a few weeks ago.
nothing major – the long run and that’s it
Continuing training for my first 10k (at 37!), a 4-mile run.
Gym session for injury recovery :(
A 5 mile run with the wife and kids, followed by a family swim trip
Two and a half hour GA1-Ride at 7°C -:)
2km run as we didn’t run since last autumn together!
Gym in the morning, swim with the wife in the afternoon.
Ride into Perth (Western Australia) to see the Giant’s (puppets) wake up, continue a loop of the river foreshore before heading for coffee – magical 50 kms.
50k bike ride in cold & wet conditions.
The first bike ride this year…
Sorry wrong person. Damn phone.
A run in the park!
just a nice long walk with my wife and our baby :)
A short walk around the lake. coming back from illness an taking too long about it.
Core training and a easy jog on the treadmill.
Taper training today for a tri here in Melbourne tomorrow :-)
Valentines day was a nice easy off road 8km with some hills.
By 0800 I’d finished swim training, home with flowers by 0830! Training and valentines win
Was hoping to do some strength training but the youngest son got high fever last night…will see about todays training tho.
10k in March
Going for a bike ride, around 20 miles. And should start training seriously for the SF marathon in July, that will be on Sunday :D
A 10km run along the beach, beautiful!!
Just finished my 7k run.
Now breakfast time!
Going out for a 3,5 hour bike ride! And taking a nap for both of us
Easy 10km run. The weather looks great, it will be fun.
Running along the beautiful blue danube and getting the first rays of spring sun, while prepping for our first HM in Vienna in April. Gorgeous!
Hour on the trainer 4×10 min at FTP.