A May $600 Gadget Giveaway!

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This is the last giveaway.

I mean, the last giveaway until the annual Giveaway Extravaganza next month of course!  I’ll let you read all about what that madness was like last year, but for now, we’ve got to get down to business for this giveaway!

The winner will get a $600 credit to CleverTraining.com, my most excellent partner in this giveaway crime.  By supporting the site through Clever Training you also can save 10% on the vast majority of what they sell, or use their updated VIP program for anything else.  If you win, you can use that credit for anything from the new Garmin FR735XT (in stock!), to a Cycliq Fly12 camera/light, this crazy foot massager thingy (really) or heck, even a chunk towards SRAM eTAP or the new CycleOps Hammer Trainer.  Whatever floats your boat.

How to enter:

Simply leave a short description of what your training plans are for the weekend ahead.  For those in the US, it’s a long weekend – so substituting your BBQ’ing plans for training plans is acceptable.

The reason you need a short description of ‘what’ is that if you just put a simple one word answer (i.e.5k or hot dog), you’ll likely get caught up in my SPAM filters.  And nobody wants to be sandwiched between two pieces of SPAM.  This is a pulled pork kinda place.  Got all that?

Good luck!

The giveaway entry period will run through Monday, May 30th, 2016 until 11:59PM US Eastern Time.  Winner will be selected randomly.  One entry per person.  The selected product/products will then be ordered immediately and shipped immediately, assuming they’re in stock.

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6,499 Comments

  1. Jochen Bollen

    A hilly ride on saterday. If it’s dry on sunday an easy run

  2. Brad Goodridge

    tomorrow i plan on doing some mountain trail maintenance. Sunday if my body can still move, run 20-30 miles on mountain trails.

  3. Giles

    One week out from a half, so nice and easy taper runs.

  4. Luca

    Biking on saturday, followed by bbq and run on sunday…

  5. Joe M

    30mi bike on Saturday, vegetarian bbq on Sunday

  6. Ronen Ben Ari

    slow mountain 15 km

  7. Alex

    ~25km run, 40-50 mile cycling, 2X 1.5 hours pool swim. Also fix bike after it made an attempt at freedom earlier this week and cast off it chain.

  8. Steven K.

    First 2.4M Open Water swim race on Sunday.
    Saturday has an early morning open water warm-up followed by a LSD run.
    Monday has a 50 mile group ride planned.

  9. 2 long bike rides trough the Rocky Mountains and then running the BolderBoulder 10k on Monday!

  10. Turi Becker

    Long run Saturday. Xtrain/yard work/BBQ Sunday. Easy run Monday.

  11. Brian

    I’m am planning a 13 mile run around the lake and hitting some trails.

  12. dimakor

    According to myasics.com plan: 9 km “build-up” run on Saturday, 13.5 km comfortable run on Sunday. No bbq for me ;(

  13. Liubomyr

    Racing XC race on this weekend

  14. Róbert Olasz

    12k trail run on Saturday and long stretching on Sunday

  15. Lee

    Doing a couple of 5k training runs and plenty of bud heavy’s.

  16. William Jessup

    Long Surrey Hills trail run with the dog.

  17. Bobby

    Work a lot and train some if I can. Bike and Run are sports of choice.

  18. Edu Callejo Mora

    5km in Liverpool Marathon

  19. Pat

    Long run and Indy 500 shenanigans with 350K friends

  20. Damian O'Connor

    Cycling “The Bridge” in the morning 40 mile medium run

  21. John

    Long rides all three days! Big miles saturday, fast miles sunday, fun and scenic miles monday!

  22. Paul Heaberlin

    I plan to do many 12oz curls while relaxing on there pontoon boat on a lake in Wisconsin. I will take my training seriously and perform many reps.

  23. I’ll be tapering for my first Olympic triathlon.

  24. badbob

    ride baby ride.

  25. Jeffrey Watts

    I was planning on racing this weekend but last minute decided to spend the long weekend on some relaxing long endurance miles.

  26. Jodi P

    A brick workout Sat morning and then moving dirt and rocks for a new flower garden.

  27. Nette

    Camping this weekend with a 40 mile roadie ride on Friday followed by a mtn bike ride on Saturday. . . should be a blast!

  28. Ramon

    I will do a long swim and some compeition training

  29. Shane Rivers

    Sat – long ride
    Sun – Long ride
    Mon – Long BBQ

  30. Ride to the beach everyday (as always).

  31. Jeff Gillen

    Saturday will be a 60+ mile ride with a large group (typically more than 60) that meets at lifetime fitness west of Phoenix, speeds average 20+. Sunday will be a slow day starting with pickleball. Something you see in retirement communities. Then a short 5K run and a 1 mile swim. Monday will be a 10 mile run and another 1 mile swim. No plans for a BBQ?

  32. Matt M.

    Ride to WS and watch National RR on Saturday.
    Long ride on Sunday.
    Steaks, burgers and beer on Monday.

  33. Layne Papenfuss

    Hiking, a long bike ride and hopefully plenty of pork shoulder!

  34. Dave

    Ride and golf Saturday. Pool and brews Sunday.

  35. Ryan Spencer

    Going away for the weekend, somewhere new to run

  36. 10 mile long run Saturday morning, followed by the National Beer Mile race in the afternoon. Sunday kayaking at the lake, followed by daydrinking in the afternoon. And possibly more daydrinking on Monday (because why not?).

  37. Joris De Wolf

    Hello DC Rainmaker!

    On saturday I will be taking a 45 min swimming lesson to work on my horrible (according to my instructor) arm technique.

    On sunday I will participate in the yearly 20km of Brussels running race on what looks to turn into a soaking wet day…

    Cheers!

    Joris

  38. Scott C

    I will be taking my first long run with the garmin 235 that should be arriving from clever training today(fingers crossed). Thanks for the tip on the sale.

  39. Josh Roberts

    Plan to get a few runs in on the Loyalsock Trail here in PA. Heading up that way to camp for the weekend.

  40. STEVE TRAMLEASURE

    I’ll be busting out a couple of 16+ mile trail runs.

  41. Kristian Geleff

    Long open water swim and cycle tour of Kent

  42. Javier P.

    Hi! I’m currently stepping up my running in order to reach the starting point for a training plan for a fall marathon. So probably a short run on Saturday, with some intervals, and a long-ish one on Sunday, twins allowing ;-)

  43. Chris

    Taking it easy, plannd to hike 16 km with my dad.

  44. Not a long weekend here in Canada. But I will be earning my beer, by running a 50km training run. Should be fun!

  45. David Williams

    Spending the long weekend with family and celebrating a family member’s milestone birthday. Will try to squeeze a swim and a run in around the festivities.

  46. Kishley

    A short 5km run and a swim in the pool!

  47. Mark Nickerson

    Family trip to Hartford, CT so I am going to ride my bike and meet them there! (80ish miles)

  48. James Gould

    Ride lots of miles and eat lots of BBQ.

  49. Pete Howard

    A short spin-the-legs ride on Saturday, a hard tempo ride on Sunday and a leisurely group cafe ride on Bank Holiday Monday

  50. Bryce

    One hour forty minute long run, Fletcher from Trainer Road, and hopefully a long bike ride on Monday followed by some grilling.

  51. Geoff Campbell

    Local Parkrun for me!

  52. Phil

    Cycling, cycling, cycling. Happy days.

  53. Probably need to do some work on Sat morning, and help friends move into their new house in the afternoon. So no training that day. Sunday & Monday are best chances for getting a ride in. Maybe a metric on one of those days. Maybe a short interval session or hill repeats the other. Then grilling and chilling with some beers!

  54. Bartek Lubaszka

    I’ll be trying to hit the road again after a few weeks of Dengue fever. Good luck everyone!

  55. Andrew Oh

    Friday: Hopefully manage to get in a quick 6 miler after happy hour.
    Saturday: If Friday happens, celebrate by finishing the coffee table I’ve been working on for weeks. If I ended up eating tacos instead of running on Friday, then run a 12 miler.
    Sunday: Trail running, 19 miler.
    Monday: BBQ. Drink beer quickly.

  56. Jay Lowell

    3-HR race simulation, 2-HR mountain bike ride, and a 1.5-HR recovery ride

  57. Royce Adams

    New to the Tri scene. Going on my first group ride Saturday morning (33 Miles) then having a crawfish boil with family and friends in the evening. Thank you for all of your posts. They’ve been a tremendous help.

  58. Sat: Long ride with the brother-in-law and father-in-law. Firefly bikes TSH art event in the PM.
    Sun: Ride from central MA to BOS, drink, bbq, watch parade
    Mon: Look for new cars since we too have a peanut on the way.

  59. Ride up Mount Weather (VA), volunteering at Salute to Tri, and hopefully LOTS of BBQ.

  60. Pieter

    Training for comming trail runs! And some bbq if the weather is friendly enough ??

  61. Patrick Chevallard

    Going to run 10k on Saturday, and do 30km on the bike on Sunday!

  62. Juan Navarro

    Saturday another century 100k ride followed by a 5km brick run.
    Sunday a 17km or so run, meat to follow on a splendid new charcoal BBQ :).

  63. scott

    Hanging out with the family.

  64. An oxymoronic short Saturday “Long Slow Distance” ending with a 20min tempo pace kick. Basically ending the 2nd week of an Adidas MiCoach pace-based Marathon training plan to try to improve my marathon time. Still checking out how I feel about the plan and the app, so not quite fully committed, but fairly happy with it so far. Sunday is Video Game Circuits (play video games for 55 minutes, do a round of pushups, squats, reverse pushups, side-leg-lifts, and plank, back to gaming for another 55 minutes, repeat all day ;) ).

  65. NateT

    Starting to add a few miles on the bike. Maybe 75 miles?

  66. Kevin

    Long bike Sat with brick after, then long run Sunday morning.

  67. dragos

    run 14 km comfortable on sunday

  68. Piet Barendse

    Weather is bad here, so it will be mainly indoor sports…

  69. Stephen J Parshall

    Hope to get a couple early morning trail rides before the Memorial Day Air Show!

  70. Trent Sprague

    Currently taking a 2 week break from running after our last track meet and substituting running with biking until summer running starts.

  71. Erwin

    Some cycling on the rail trail with the family and a 10k run or so on Sunday.

  72. Charlie R

    Race pace enduro practice runs, and bike skills training

  73. Matt

    5K on Saturday and lots of eating on Sunday

  74. wai

    weekend starts with ride home from work Friday, easy spin Sat (50miler), Sunday gravel ride (50miler) and rest Monday.

  75. Jeff

    Century prep work.
    Hill repeats on Saturday
    Rest Sunday
    50 miler on Monday

  76. yg

    long ride on Saturday, long run on Sunday, something on Monday to combat all the food I will eat this weekend!

  77. Denis Corradini

    Saturday morning MTB trails about 2000D+ in the Alps
    Sunday light run under the rain…

  78. My training plan involves getting outside every day but not dying from heat stroke in this first heat wave of the year in the Hudson Valley

  79. Joy Schmalzle

    Friday – 5 mile run
    Saturday – 48 mile bike
    Sunday – 2,000 m swim
    Monday – 10K Wear Blue – Run to Remember run with local Run Blue Chapter

  80. Lori Hardy

    Running a marathon during a heatwave…!

  81. Jesse Dewey

    Today (Friday) I plan on doing core and a short run (2 miles), Saturday I am going to go to my local shoe shop for a Hoka demo and do 3 miles. Saturday evening I am going to go to the KY state track meet to support my old team. Sunday I plan on doing a ruck march with about 35-40 lbs doing 5-7 miles. Finally Monday I am doing upper body and either 800 repeats or a 3 mile run.

  82. Linh Phan

    Long run with 21k on Sunday

  83. Tycho

    My weekend starts tonight with a track meeting in my home town where I will do a 800m race. Party afterwards :)
    Saturday morning I’ll head into the woods for a slow and easy recovery run. Followed by a long steady run on sunday.

  84. Jet Pacapac

    Doing long rides on both Saturday and Sunday!

  85. Joey

    Zwift

  86. Jeff

    A weekend full of outdoor activities.. Runs, bike rides, kayaks, and wakesurfing!

  87. Mathieu Berube

    A trail running long run to prepare my first 25k race.

  88. Oscar Bonilla

    10 mile run on saturday and a little bike ride to losen the legs.

  89. Gildo Silva

    My training plan to this weekend is make 180km on my cervelo P5 on Saturday. Sunday I will make a run 1hour to relax near to the beach

  90. Matt Page

    Easing back in after knee injury, so rest Saturday, 40km ride Sunday.

  91. Doneyli De Jesus

    I’m actually running a Half Marathon race on Sunday! So, for Saturday will be an easy 5K with some strides at the end to warmup for the race. On race day, 21.1 Km (of course) to try and beat my PB.

  92. Henri

    Running a marathon this Sunday! Race day? Or just a very very very long training run? Probably the latter :P

  93. Jairo Ammirati

    after I’ve broke my collarbone this will be my first weekend training again

  94. Paul Langelaan

    Run and swim tomorrow

  95. Jens Leen

    To be honest, I will try to train the least possible on Saturday……. Because on Sunday I will race my first 1/4 triathlon at the Garmin Triathlon de Paris!! Ow Yeah!

  96. Vira Katolik

    My weekend training plans are a long run on Saturday, perhaps on the trails, followed by speeedwork and strength training on Sunday. On Monday, I rest :)

  97. Stuart Holmes

    I shall be running an easy 5k parkrun Saturday, keeping my legs ticking over ready to SMASH my one mile PB on Sunday in front of Lizzie at Buckingham Palace!… long run then BBQ and beer Monday

  98. Gordon Warren

    This weekend I plan to Run 10, Bike 20, and track all the metrics with my epix… (well almost all…)

  99. sean lawrence

    deconstructed Olympic…. bang out the swim at lunch today, bike sat and run monday

  100. Paul

    My Sunday ride is along the Mississippi River .