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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.
Sat: Ride + beach swim
Sun: Pool swim + a nap
Tempo Training on climb Sault-Mont Ventoux using Tacx
MTB with my dog, who is finally old enough to join me on my rides :)
Running in beautiful weather in brilliant Hanko, Finland. 80 min easy Z1 and 10×80 m sprint routine.
Bupa around the bay 50km (this Sunday) and few swim sessions to prepare for my upcoming first (mini) triathlon.
I’ll go cycling on Saturday and some nice running on Sunday.
Working for an international airline I will find myself in Dubai on a turnaround this weekend and I have a tri bike booked at 6am (due to the heat) at the store there at Al Qudra bike track…. Very cool to ride in the middle of the desert on a perfect path cutting through sand dunes with nothing around (except a solitary tree which like in the cartoons the path splits). There is a 50km loop with some 20 loops to make longer tracks… That’s me this weekend….
Weekend is for recovery, as I do all of my runs on weekdays.
OK, maybe a race to the coffee machine in the morning. :)
Planned are a run with my dog on Saturday and the Sunday Clubride, weather should be ok ! (south of france)
Does a cycle with the kids count as exercise?
Short, easy run on Saturday, and moderate 1h indoor cycling on Sunday :)
Mountainbiking around Mt. Seymore in North Vancouver
Gonna do some running!
Peterborough Great Eastern Half Marathon – hoping for a pb!
saturday – Bicycle orienteering competitions
sunday – rest and champagne – i hope ;)
Last Century of the year before the snow flies and it will include a stop at Flying Monkey Café & Bike shop while I day dream about winning a new bike computer!
Testing my new carbon wheels on Sunday
Saturday- trying like mad to hang on to the back of Old Papa’s river loop from Fremantle
Sunday- conquer the hills of Brigadoon
Today road bike training 60km with intervals
Saturday road bike easy ride 45km
Sunday MTB tour event Lemelerveld Veldtoertocht 50km
Headed to the Pyrenees. Will fit in some trail running to try to get some serious mileage before first half marathon coming up in January.
I will be riding sunday 30 miles on my fargo training for the bike around the bay in galveston
A good long MTB ride and a couple of 10km runs. One Tempo the other rest.
Alas, no plans. At an academic conference.
Finally test my carbon bike (again), back from repair.
Some autumn morning trail runs..
Running after my kids!
Knee recovery :(
First long run since a while on Sunday.
Long run on Saturday then a short ride option in the Around the Bay in a Day event in Melbourne on Sunday
On a work trip, but looks like there is a place with rentals nearby and packed my shoes/bibs/jersey just in case. Plan to try to get out for a ride before my flight home Saturday.
Walking….around Alton Towers theme park
Actually drive to RPM session ! 6x ( 1’@pma / 4′ rest)
Enjoy
Long 10mi run at altitude in prep for san francisco half marathon.
I hope it won’t rain (again)…long ride
Cyclocross race on Sunday!
Today, no sports :-)
Saturday: via ferrata to alpsipitze
Sunday: Road bike easy ride.
Possibly a 10k run on Saturday, and most definitely a pool swim on Sunday.
Week-end sans rien faire, attends de revenir de blessure…
Sunday MTB followed by beer and steak
I’ve started my weekend preparing healthy/whole food meals for the training week ahead. I’ll be out on the bike Sunday. Rest day tomorrow.
first time on indoor trainer
Some shorter but harder ride on saturday or sunday depending on how chilli the weather will be.
MTB race on Sunday, hoping for podium in my age category
Friday: Road bike, Saturday: Mountainbike, Sunday; early trail run
Mountain biking this Saturday followed by a long Sunday hike
LVSD – Long Very Slow Distance MTB ride Saturday – watching Rugby World Cup rest of the day. Enjoy!!!
Half Marathon race on sunday!
yes please! For my daily bike commute (350k a week)
Yorkshire marathon on Sunday!
5 hours Indoor trainer…
Three 6 km runs this weekend, but due to gadgets running my training life, a 520 would provide the extra push to get back on the road bike over the next few weeks!
Saturday: 50 mile hilly road ride, a bit of spectating at my local CX race, and watching Cal-Utah Saturday night.
Sunday: 20 mile dirt ride.
Saturday MTB-Marathon in Wasgau ~47 miles – http://wasgaubike.de
Sunday Roadbike again due to near-perfect weather conditions – yay!
Looking forward to the Epix review! Thank you for this excellent site and the regular giveaways!
Planning to do the Roc d’Azur XC Race this Sunday in south France!
intervals this weekend.
For saturday a recovery ride is planned. About 2-3h, max 140bmp HR.
Stretching and relaxing in the sofa, watching the Kona stream.
A 25 km run on Sunday – starting slow with a fast finish. Followed by a 45 min swim.
Few hours of indoor pedaling.
130km and 2000m in the mountains of Yamanashi, Japan!
3 days weekend here in Spain.
Running + running + biking.
Munich Half Marathon on Sunday!
Easy run on Friday, 2-3h Cycling on Saturday and Hiking on Sunday.
50k MTB-tour to the house of my brother-in-law who is giving a birthday party
Sadly for me it’s just resting.
Ride a bike and running.
Easy 12km tapering for my marathon debut on Sunday next week.
Melbourne, eating cake
Nice 45- 50 mile social ride through the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds with my wife planned for Sunday, along with at least one obligatory tea and cake stop, more likely two. No point burn all that energy and not replacing it.
no training plan this weekend, flying to Greece for holiday!
i hope long run on sunday :)
I’m back running for half an hour after a two month injury. Also got to get back that KOM from my training buddy!
Being the off season, only a 1 hour ride and a 1.5 hour run. And, being in the UK, a long night on Saturday watching all the action in Kona whilst dreaming of the day I might actually get there!
Nice cyclocross bike ride
I plan on going for my second run this year!
This weekende is special preparation for my halfmarathon the week after.
So it’s going to be two easy runs with some intervals in between.
Most important is not doing too much.
I hope the weather will get a little better than right now.
Thanks for all the giveaways!!!
Going to try to fit a swim and ride in somewhere between taxi duty for wife and daughter.
Relaxed Saturday, half-marathon on Sunday
Intervals, intervals, intervals…..intervals.
Trento Half Marathon this sunday.
With no serious training at all.
humiliating finish time expected.
doin it just to be in for october giveaway, so keep this in mind, random numbers generator!
I run a halfmarathon on Hallwileseelauf …
Build up the base for LEL 2017 – so mostly core training.
Traveling out of town for the weekend with family. Kayak, bike and runners included. Saturday morning will be a national park run followed by an explore up the river. Sunday will be a couple of hours exploring on my bike.
Will put the bike on the turbo this weekend (byebye summer) and then ruin whatever the training effect was by attending a local beer festival… :-S
This weekend might be the last chance for road cycling before the freezing period starts, so i will be on the road doing easy km’s.
Plan to head outside for some great weather. Beats being on the trainer
40k bike training in Siena’s outdoors Velodrome.
So I have some swim drills, 120 minutes running and on Sunday a little bit of bike… Plus a wedding!!
Long slow run as training for a Half-marathon race at the end of this month …
Long slow ride in “sunny” Portland
Half Marathon in Novi Ligure (Italy) this Sunday!
My plan is recovering from a cold. Great weather here this weekend but rather not prolong recovery. Might go for a short slow ride on Sunday.
A 21.1k trailrun in the Woods South of Gothenburg!
Gonna be muddy, gonna be nice :D
I will be carrying wall stones (lots of them). Maybe a short run also.
Going to do a long 2 day ride in Germany, from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, heading southeast along the river, should be nice with the autumn colours.
Some indoor trainer training with Kona live coverage!!!!
Easy ride on Saturday, and on Sunday hill repeats up Coll de Sa Batalla :)
Run a 5k road race to get some speed for upcoming 23k skyrace
I’ll hopefully be banking a fast 5k on Friday, then spinning my legs out with a long MTB on Saturday. Nice and slow.
5km run