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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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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.
10kms easy jog and 2 hours bike ride.
repair her bikes !! and prepare for sunday race (semi bullion)
3h long trail run early in the morning.
Romantic dinner later in the evening.
Sound of Music hill ride with the cycle club
Some intervals on the trainer.
I’ll go for a nice ride on the tracks for the World Championships in Cross-Country Skiing in Falun, Sweden (of course not as a participant in the contest!)
Valentine’s day is Saturday so I am planning to take longer run than during week, it means at least 15 km…
parkrun
Snowboarding, and then a late night run!
cut some wood in the front yard
15 km of cross country skiing if the weather agrees.
I plan a speed running session on tracks and a long cycling one!
Winter Body Bike workout, building a foundation for summer.
Drinking vodka
For saturday, we are planning with my wife to run around the lake of Cantache (~14km) in Brittany, near Vitré…
Tomorrow it’s time for my weekly long run. I think 25km are on the agenda. My wife will join me for the last 5k
just did the rak (in uae) half marathon with the girlfriend. Hot and sunny run. Now to relax by the pool.
City xc-ski championship 15k Freestyle.
Haven’t run for a while due to skiing, so it’ll be an easy 10k this Saturday.
Barcelona Marathon will start in four weeks, so I have a Long Slow Distance run (33km) before tapering. I will be alone, wife and kids will wait for me at home. Hopefully.
My valentines day training will be getting up at 6am with the baby after being woken every 3 hours in the night by a heavily pregnant wife. First exercise of the day will be a swim at baby splashes followed by a run round the playground Park and the final leg will be a cycle ride home! The parents triathlon.
Usual run on Bowen Rd. while my +1 joins me on the trail with our lovely new baby :-)
Saturday morning will be parkrun with the wife and kids. Unfortunately nothing romantic there!
Go for a nice ski tour in the Alps
so, I’ll go for a 25 mile run at 4am, so I can be back in time to do breakfast in bed, and then on to a day together as a family
I’ll be off to Girona for a week’s training camp
2 hours on my rollers with the wife
Will do some road intervals on a mountain bike. Short 1×1 efforts to open up the lungs and be back at home in time for some valentine loving.
Out on the mountain bikes with my awesome wife.
Recovery day so lying around whilst the wife and kids go to the ballet. That’s training isn’t it…
A long walk through the zoo with my wife followed by dinner.
1h30 swim + 1h45 run. Then sleep
10x1km <3:30min/km
9 mile lap around White Rock Lake, Dallas. Then volunteering at “For the love of the lake spruce up”
After my bicycle accident a few months ago I’ll start the day with my first 10km of the year
Just a 7 mile easy run for me tomorrow.
I live in Florence, Italy
I plan a 10km hilly run @4:45 min/km
Just a quick run to the hills in our town…
And then a warm cup of tea under the blankets.
A long run in the forest, in my hometown Ulricehamn, Sweden. Wifey will be at work.
I will do a 10km run in the moring.
No serious training on Valentine’s day, because I have a cross-country race the next day. But my wife and I will probably go for a local walk.
After three weeks of injury related pause I will go for a 5k.
of course with my loved wife.
Easy, do a long, enjoyable run.
We met in a running club.. so the best way to celebrate Valentine’s Day it’s a jog in Madrid`s Casa de Campo park
Easy 5k run along the beach before it heats up for the day.
On valentine’s day we will be running a race, my girlfriend runs the 6k mini-trail and I’ll be attempting the marathon distance… When we would win this giveaway I’m pretty sure my girlfriend would be superhappy with the Tom Tom Runner with built in cardio!
Saturday is long run day with the wife so we will head to the beach for an evening run, and then romantically enjoy each others sweaty company by grabbing some ice cream cones (What? We’re allowed to indulge on Valentine’s right?)
A 1h run in the morning + a 1h swim with in the evening (both with my wife :) ). The surprise for her will be that i’ll disclose the 1 h run after we get running (stating before it’ll be a 30min run :))
A 10 mile run in the morning.
As last year, I will simply draw a heart for my wife with my GPS !
20km run in the morning
A nice 4 hour ride with the crew
Going on a frosty 14 mile trail run to prepare for the DC 50k in April
A nice 15km run
All my attention goes to the girlfriend.
A 10k run in the morning to start the day!
Special workout including my wife (; no details here.
First long ride of the year in the morning, and in the evening a Ball with Her. If only we recover from our flus.
Rest day, (semi enforced by my partner…) Hey it’s just as important for improvement.
I’ll be doing a 15K test run in preparation for my half marathon later next month
60 min run Z1-Z2 and later 2k slow swimming :)
Running on the Bund in Shanghai (assuming the smog isn’t in the ‘hazardous’ range like it was earlier this week)
1h easy jog
This would make my wedding. Fingers like super crossed.
I will do a 15 k tempo run
No training at all, completely available for low intensity love, because Sunday I’ll enter an ultratrail event.
I’l try to convince my wife to join me in a trainer workout. Perfect opportunity to test the trainer road companion app!
Easy 5K run to save energy for later ;]
After a week of quite intense trainingdays, and before a long runday on Sunday, Valentines day will be filled with couchpotato-y activities!
I’m going to race the Giulietta and Romeo Half Marathon in Verona, Italy!!
A post-race recovery day!
Take a short run with my wife. She has just started with running, so we don’t will be very fast :-).
An hour spinning to keep in shape until the weather is fit to get my bike out of storage
I’ll run, she’ll ride Her horse up through the hills.. Perfect
XC skiing, volumes, volumes, volumes. Three weeks to go to Vasaloppet.
I wan’t to break the record time on the waterslide (yes it has a timer).
After that I’ll swim 3km freestyle in the pool.
Hopefully a decent little run around the woods with the wife!
We’re looking forward to a lovely afternoon run together! Here’s to active Valentines Days together.
A day of snowboarding with my lovely wife
Planning to Volunteer at my local parkrun
A 40min run @ 80-85% HRMax
16k run EZ pace
Early-morning 5 km run and hiking with my with in the afternoon
A quick solo 8 miles followed by a nice gentle bike ride with the missus on some beautiful singletrack through the woods… if it’s not raining… or muddy… my other half seems to be averse to the two best things about mountain biking!
Be going to run in forest with my spouse to lose it, unfortunately it runs better than me !!!
5k family run..nice
An early start for around 3k of swimming broken up with some drills (given I’ve been ignoring these for a while!). We’ll see!
1hour Bike with efforts + 35 minute run with efforts
5k run in the park sounds great!
(2K warm-up -> 3x2K @ 10K race pace -> 2K cool-down)
60′ jog with 15′ MPace, romantic isn’t it ;-)
My valentine’s day training will be… painting the stairs.. Ouch.
90mins on the turbo in the shed.
cross training with wife
90km ride followed by a 5km run with a mate and leave the wife home with the kids.
5k run around the very aptly named Valentines Park in East London!
Going to go for a +- 60km boke in training for the argus cycles race, thereafter it will be the 5km Durban North Beach Park Run with the wife.
Valentine’s Day training will be chasing my 5-year old around a kindergarten birthday party :)
Me & my girlfriend we will do a gym training because the 15 we’ll going to do a mountain bike travel.. Easy 30km with a rokkies team
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Simple 3k+ swim.