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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 2024 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.
Cycling, swimming, gymnastics, table tennis, and my fav track!
Swimming, volleyball.
Swimming, rugby 7s
SwImming
Swimming, Gymnastics, and Track and Field
Swimming and now track
Cycling and rugby :)
I’m watching everything I can…well, and cycling of course! Thanks Ray!
Swimming. Nuff said.
Everything except synchro events (swimming, diving).
watched rugby7s, cycling, fencing, boxing and table tennis so far
Been watching everything, especially swimming. Very excited for Katie Ledecky’s 800 tonight.
Swimming! Cycling! Gymnastics and water polo, which was strangely captivating.
Swimming, gymnastics, cycling.
Swimming and Basketball
Archery! Water Polo! Canoe Slalom!
Plus all the usual suspects: swimming, gymnastics….gearing up for Velodrome now!
Everything from wrestling to rhythmic gymnastics is a valid answer?
track cycling
Cycling, swimming
Rugby 7s
Rowing
Track cycling
Swimming
Road cycling
But definitely not Golf
Swimming! Cycling! Water polo! Rugby 7s! (Currently sucked into indoor women’s volleyball)
Swimming! Which is a good thing right now as we are flooding here in Baton Rouge, LA
Cycling :-)
Women road biking, time trials.
Rowing go on Ireland
All swimming. Go Canada!
Just the biking. Enjoy other sports but just too much time to see them all.
Swimming, gymnastics. Sadly I haven’t had the time to see as much of it as I’d like.
Swimming and Beach Volleyball…of course!
Swimming, gymnastisk and cykling
I watched the olympic street race (bike) and the glorious win of my fellow swiss Fabian “spartacus” cancellara. What a Victory in his last season, a true hero. Help me to become 1% closer to him (starting from 0) by giving me dis trainer. I also enjoyed a lot of swim prelims, only to be stunned by the one and only, fellow Michael-man Phelps.
Anything cycling or athletics
all sports but mostly swimming
swimming!
Cycling and swimming
Swimming/Volleyball/Cycling/Archery/Gymnastics
road cycling, swimming and gymnastics
Which event? It would be easier to list which events I haven’t been watching :D But to say some: basketball, football, rugby, handball, golf, weight lifting, boxing, fencing, archery, swimming, cycling, rowing, table tennis, badminton, tennis, sailing, beach volley and athletics at least. I’m probably forgetting something.
Those that I haven’t is water polo and field hockey, but hopefully that will be fixed at least in the final :)
Proud of our Irish rowing medalists..!!
Great road events!
Kicking kickr
triathlon cycling swimmin running
Water Polo. The men are in bad shape in the group, but the women haven’t been tested yet and stand a great chance for the gold. Also watching soccer, cycling, gymnastics and swimming.
Cycling. And waiting for some tri action.
I’ve been watching the cycling events, swimming and some gymnastics. Also watched badminton for the first time. Actually interesting!
Been loving the swimming, cycling, gymnastics, diving, waterpolo and of course can’t wait to see the triathlon!
Track cycling. The most awesome sport in the world.
A lot of swimming.
Swimming and Cycling
Golf :D
Lots of distance running! Men’s / Women’s 1500m, 5000m, 10000m, marathon, 3000m steeple. Looking for Evan Jager to go under 8:00 and Rupp to turn some heads with a podium finish. Big congrats to Ayana on her gold medal / WR and Huddle on her AR this morning!
From Rio, watching everything!!
Judo. Krpálek is the best (for now)
All the events with bicycles for me. Road races watched, track cycling ongoing, triathlon, mountain bike and bmx to come ?
Cycling swimming rugby soccer, got lots of time to watch since I had surgery on my collarbone
Swimming and Cycling!
Swimming currently
Cycling, swimming, volleyball
So far be I’ve watching the boxing, cycling road and track, rugby and the rowing
Cycling, time trial, mtb, bmx, basketball, sailing, windsurfing and so on.
Just returned from London today, so while in the UK I was watching a lot of indoor cycling.
KICKR me!
Cycling
Swimming
Cycling! … and soccer.
Watching swimming with our great canadian athlete Penny Oleksiak :-) :-)
Tons of swimming and wishing I could swim that fast.
All things cycling and swimming!
Swimming!
cycling, volleyball
cycling track and road of course ;-)
Swimming and volleyball
Wait, what? The Olympics are on?
Swimming, biking, soccer, and now the running events that will make me feel slooooooooooooow
Cycling :)
Women’s 10k!
Basketball, swimming and archery
I’m loving the volleyball this year – both M & W.
Road cycling and swimming
Cycling and swimming
Gymnastics and swimming are my favorites.
Cycling (terrible crash van Vleuten), swimming, hockey
Swimming and gymnastics mainly and obviously looking forward to the triathlon!
Heptathlon
Swimming! Gymnastics! And diving into green water!
Cycling, Rugby 7’s and Diving so far. Looking forward to the athletics and triathlon though.
Rugby 7s well done Fiji totally outclassed us in the final
Watching at Rafa Nadal in tennis
Cycling, sailing, rowing. Britannia rules the waves.
Cycling, soccer, rowing, canoe/kayak, rugby, volleyball
Cycling – All. Rugby, swimming, football, track, vball, pretty much everything there is.
All the swimming
Rowing, track cycling and looking forward to athletics and triathlon
Swimming, swimming, and swimming!
Men’s diving
All of them!
Swimming
Swimming, basketball and cycling.
Cycling, swimming, heptathlon, rowing and judo.
Just the cycling so far..
Rugby and cycling