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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.
Nice family time!
Hoping to see the post soon about you staying in a run down RV ala Vegas vacation for Ces 2016!
Fingers crossed
As another recent returnee back to the state of Washington, welcome home to the land of rain and large slugs. And though the cobble stones of France are challenging, there is nothing like the slipperiness of mossy inclined Seattle streets. Stay safe if you decide to take Dad’s Roubaix out for a spin, and hope you get a chance to enjoy seeing the foggy New Year’s fireworks off the Space Needle!
Just out of curiosity, were you at Theo in the late afternoon of Dec 23rd? I’m asking because I was across the street at Cascade Bicycle Studio at that time, getting fitted for a bike. It would be pretty funny to find out that you were a few yards away. It’s weird enough that you were at my Costco :)
So close!
I was there from roughly 12-1PM on the 23rd. :)
Missed you by 3 hours. Man, what a small world.
I normally agree with everything you say but ‘It is difficult to eat to eat large quantities of dark chocolate’ is just plain wrong!
That town “idea” is so awesome. Thanks for sharing, and a happy New Year.
Happy Hogmannay
I am having this sudden craving for dark chocolate and it is only 0700. Have a healthy, fit New Year!
Merry Christmas/Happy New Year…
May 2016 be a good year for you, the ‘Girl’, Lucy and all of your families.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours!
Thanks for what you do!
Best wishes to you and yours next year, from Brazil.
I assume Seattle’s weather has been very close to Portland’s- we had 30 or 31 days with precipitation, nearly beating the old record of 34 days. I know that when PDX had ~14 inches of rain that Seattle had ~10. So yeah, it’s been a bit wet :)
Now we’re having 32-35deg weather and clear skies. Woo, I can hop off the KICKR and go outside!
Newark Airport Layover run! Ouch. What a horrible neighborhood to run through. (Though not the most dangerous Newark has to offer.) I grew up 10 miles due West of there, in Maplewood, NJ (on the first big hill West of the airport).
Happy New Year!
as a trail runner that tunnel looks like a very decent road.
Everything below waist deep is considered a road by some of the race track designers :)
exemple can be found at link to picasaweb.google.com
ps: i wish you all a nice year
Happy New Year
Hi Ray,
just a quick one, and probably answered 1000 times, but I could’t find one.
What settings do you use for taking pictures while running with your GoPro? Single or Burst mode? If Burst, how many pictures per second? ProTune on/off?
And what software do you use to deal with all thousand of pictures from burst mode to chose the best?
Thanks and Happy New Year,
Martin
I generally tend to just do single-shot, since it’s easiest. There are some cases I’ll do burst though, which is when I’m taking pictures of watch faces while running/riding. As I usually find that subtle changes in the positioning of my wrist/camera can get better pics (so one of them is usually bet). In that case, it’s often just a 3-photo burst.
I don’t tend to use ProTune, only because most of the time my workflow with the GoPro images is simpler (Instagram/Strava/Phone/etc…).
I use Lightroom for everything though that makes it to the blog, usually just to try and adjust colors/etc to be semi-consistent. The photos in this post from the GoPro during the runs probably came out among the worst I’ve taken lately. Just sorta a case of dimmer light in the woods, combined with motion. Should have stopped to take the pics.
thanks a lot for your answer!
A Happy New Year to all of you!
I know that Seattle is in the area of temperate rainforest, but when I was there in Seattle and Vancouver, I had excellent weather with only very few exceptions. We were able to sit at the beach wearing only swimming trunks between two dives. This was a day of october! But in water, only a dry suit was comfortable.
The pictures of the run in the woods remembers mee to the forrest near Skookumchuck Narrows with all that moss on the trees. During my last run in 2015 yesterday, I had rainy weather too. I hope we will get some snow this winter for cross country skiing again, but the chances are small.
Good luck for 2016!
My company has finally decided not to send me at our subsidiary in Seattle.
Looking at the wet wheather there maybe I was lucky ?
35 Maple Street
Home. <3 <3 <3 All the feels. Looks delightful!
I just wanna say thank you for your great work you’re doing here. I don’t think that there are better reviews on the web for sport gadgets. Please never stop doing that ;)
Keep your great work up and i hope you had a good start in the new year!
Got to run up North Meadowdale Beach Road, eh? The sidewalk on the bottom part must have been pretty slick.
On a bike, that road is tough when it is even a little damp (the bottom part is a grade of 20%+).