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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
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The Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List
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Did a 35k very runhappy Longrun just yesterday
Getting over my pneumonia. Still trying.. unsuccessfully
Simple plan, just getting in 10k steps. Currently in weight loss mode!
Three days in Switzerland riding my cyclocross bike. First day 20 miles; second day 62 miles with 8,000+ feet of elevation gain; third day 40 miles with 6,000+ feet of elevation gain. Mud, snow, wind and rain…great time!
Got up to 40 miles for the week with a 15-miler on Sunday.
My training log has consisted of rest and light walking to recover from hernia surgery.
I ran 12 miles Saturday morning before the temps dropped to -stupid degrees F. Forecast for Sunday was -5F with wind chills to -35F, so Sunday was strength training inside
17k i strong winds and wet snow.
Last weekend I swam with my tri club, 10 times 100m on 2.00mins
I ran 5 days, 3 easy, 1 track workout, 1 long run. Race next Saturday!!!
5k speed workout on Saturday and a 50minute technique workout (one leg drills, high candence intervals, etc.) on the trianer on Sunday.
Nothing, really, nothing on the schedule. It was the begining of my taper week. A week-end of with lots of food ans wine. Really good for the mood, but not for the stomach!
Lots of Netflix and time on the trainer
10km run. And swam 1,5km. It was a busy week at work. And I still have a sore ankle. And it’s cold and raining. (Yes that’s more excuses than actual training…)
6 mile easy run.
Even Steven on Saturday and 22k easy run on Sunday… The usual formula for weekends is tempo/intervals on Sat, long run on Sun.
Paddleboarded over to Deerfield Island Park and transplanted mangroves and harvested mangrove propagules (yes, it’s a real word). Paddled back.
Just did a spinning session and watched the gunners against Leicester
Most of the winter has been pretty vegetative. But just outside of a week ago, I hiked around the world heritage site Teotihuacan near Mexico City. Climbing up and down the pyramids there was a good workout.
Last week, work emergencies and weather prevented any training.
Tomorrow I am leading a wet and muddy Fat bike ride for our local club.
I hope that counts.
Rick
A couple of hours of steady Z4 on the trainer and some kettlebell swings.
Gordo burn’s. Core block modified for 70.3. Two 70.3s in 2 1/2 days
Saturday: 55km@233W Zwift Richmond
Sunday: 100km@238W Zwift Watopia
Power from the Vortex, which might not be accurate but still much better than my Stages, which turned out to be worse than useless (no metrics are better training input than completely wrong metrics…).
Just working out in the gym nothing fancy!
Well, let’s say that’s vacation time. So it was an off week… but if skiing counts I could add a few ski hours each day of the week to my training log.
60k CompuTrainer workout with 75-80% FTP interval
12.February 2016
Run: I did 10,4 km in 0:59:29. Pace 5:51 min/km.
Swim: I did 2.000 m in 1:00:00. Pace 03:00 sec/100m.
13.February 2016
Run: I did 15,0 km in 1:16:43. Pace 5:16 min/km.
14.February 2016
Run: I did 22,7 km in 2:03:52. Pace 5:31 min/km.
Cheers!
2h fast group ride on Saturday
2,5h LSD ride on Sunday
Going up and down the stairs bringing stuff to my sick family!
3h MTB saturday, 1h30 progressive run Sunday
Well, there was a rainy period in the eastern part of the Czech Republic, so my only “weekend” workout was on Friday evening. It was 12km run in the Chřiby hills range, most of the workout was along the Koryčany dam. I did not run far into the hills, just because of mud everywhere.
1 hour in a gym, 1 hour for a run ;)
2 x 1 hr run,
100k tempo ride on saturday and another on sunday. Also 20 min yoga core workout on saturday
My wife treated me to a Garth Brooks concert. My workouts consisted of morning calisthenics. Nothing fancy
9 mile run
Working through Boston training with my wife 39 weeks pregnant so a 20 treadmill run and a 8 mile recovery run.
Last sunday, a swim with Trionysos. And on monday and wednesday a running training with my runteam
Fat biking snow covered gravel roads, 45 miles, 17 degrees. Not the easiest ride but beats the trainer any day.
One trail run on snow and in fantastic weather early in the morning, and one long run on sunday.
Tomorrow cyclocross, yesterday a 70k road bike ride together with my girlfriend. Rest of the week was just commuting.
Short run on Saturday and then an easy one hour on the trainer on Sunday.
5 mile pace run on Saturday. Sunday was too cold to go outside, so I did 11 miles on the treadmill.
One session of cross country skiing each day, before the snow melts.
Today was a 20k low speed distance in icy rain, and sludgy roads
No training alas because a few days before I stacked it at 25mph and broke my thumb into small pieces.
Tempo run today and a long run tomorrow. Business as usual :)
Steady 38 Miles on the bike. Followed by a cupple of pints at the pub.
Sunday long run, Monday easy run with strides, Tuesday intervals, Wednesday rest, Thursday easy run, Friday 20 minute tempo and then a relaxing Saturday.
1 hour LSD run.
7.5 mile run on dark, muddy trails illuminated by head torch with my hound and also some running club buddies on Thursday night. Another 7 miles or so running on road and trail this morning in the rain just to prove that adverse weather can’t stop the fun.
Easy running miles building base. Strength training: core, upper, lower.
Training for Boston. Saturday was a 7 mile MP run and Sunday was a 17 mile long run.
Training called for a recovery week – went snowboarding.
I went for a 90min run at Z3
1 hour interval trainer ride, 3 hour trainer ride, 1:45 swim.
Last weekend was a 2 mile run friday night
10 mile ride on saturday
Played 5a side football on sunday
Still trying to get my fitness back
Went for a 60km tempo ride and I was feeling pretty great, love to ride outside.
I’m recovering from a stress fracture so Saturday was gym day. One hour spin class then weights. Sunday was an easy 45 minutes on the trainer.
2000m swim with my tri training group, 25mi basement bike ride and 10k run
X-Country ski for 50 minutes and hit the computrainer for 45 minutes next day.
I hope to do a good lap training with my friends
Bad weather down there, so easy run for 1 hour and relax.
15km slow-ish distance run followed by a 5km short distance progression run the next day (parkrun) and then a rest day.
No training… Ski week !
Ran a 20 k race in way too warm conditions. Tough.
i did a 90km bike ride in la sierra de madrid
Sat, 7 mile Trail/cross country run. Sun, 37 mile road ride
Been doing interval training on stationary bike for the past 2 weeks on weekdays.
Also some weight training and stretching to rehab my right ankle that was dislocated 7 months ago
80km ride and 15km run around Longchamp
I have some knee problems, so long swimming sessions, and some gentle biking on the turbo
Did Sufferfest Blender
Swam bike and ran 3 times each. Also did weekly core workout!…in building base period for the worlds highest 70.3 in September!
Parkrun, kids swimming lessons
I didn’t get much done, I only went for a 7k run at a steady pace.
Ran a Valentine’s Day 10k with the wife and a family 2 mile trail run prepping for our local off road series.
16 mile cycle, the first of the year:(
01:05 hours of bike, 40′ uphill and then down (16.73 Kms), getting ready to do the 40 kms up, to get to the skies resorts before winter.
Started with a 5K in the rain at the Oxford ParkRun which while sunny was a bit chilly at just 3℃. Then an evening of indoor climbing at the local wall.
Ran couple of miles/day
Base workouts with TrainerRoad.
Couple of zwift rides (cold here) but then managed an outdoor ride today – first in a couple of weeks. Psyched.
Easy five mile run. Not in racing shape lately.
almost nothing :-( i was working this week end.
just a little jog.
Yoga, 1 hour wind trainer, 1 hour run
Core workout, long walk and a lot of playtime with the kids.
14 km run and ~500 m swim.
Sat: Recover
Sun: 21km (3h) offroad run in ankle deep wet snow. First 2h HRavg > 170, last hour slow crawling. 400m vertical.
Rest as i traveled back from Las Vegas where I have been cycling on Mountains Rovers Loop, Red rock canyon an Zion National park.
I would love to surf the Clevertraining site for a full day planing how to spend $600 ;-)
A really muddy 30km trail run ;-)
Nothing at all as I am laid up with a broken ankle.
Quad grinding ride up High Grade in Colorado.
Hey i ran a bit and i started moving boxes and that was quite a good workout!
I did my longest run yet, a little over 25K. :)
Leg day at the gym! Squats, dead lifts, lunges, and leg presses with alternating isolated movements at each set.
I did a good 70 minutes on the Elliptical on Saturday. Then, I took Sunday off. An old man has to rest every now and then.
Rollers, Rollers and a 70k slow ride with the lads
I did two interval workouts on the trainer.
No workouts last weekend, full on converting garage to gym and utility room. Made up for it tuesday big style. 90 mins turbo and 10 k on treadmill. Top base training. Big confidence builder for my 2nd olympic tri later in year. Aiming to improve rather than finish
Still recovering from surgery and it was barely above 10 degrees out, so does walking around my house count?