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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.
Cycling
La course en ligne à vélo, le tennis, et divers (là où il y a des Suisse ;-)
French course for Ray.
Women’s Judo but really looking forward to all the track!
Swimming
Swimming; go phelps, ledecky and King! USA USA USA!
Definitely watched the men’s and women’s road race. Some of the best one day racing I’ve seen in a long time. I had no fingernails left after both of them. I also watch a lot of swimming. Now that track and field is on I’ve been watching those events.
Athletics and cycling
Beach volleyball
I have become obsessed with rugby 7!!
tennis !
Been watching a lot of swimming and the wife likes women gymnastics.
Track and field
I’ve watched them all! Fuglsang’s silver in the road race was the top one so far, though.
TRAMPOLINE!!!
roowing
Volleyball
Beach volleyball, gymnastics, swimming, track & field, rugby, soccer, cycling, underwater basket weaving.
So much cycling! Plus the diving.
Cycling road race and all track events also all water sport events
Ladies windsurfing (go Tuuli!), swimming and of course the men’s and women’s road races and time trials.
Swimming, Beach Volleyball and yes…Golf.
Mainly watching swimming!
Cycling! And it’s kinda hard to avoid the beach volleyball and swimming.
mostly volleyball and swiming
Swimming, gymnastics, biking,
All the track events, plus the road races
cant help it, but im just amazed by the gymnastic.
Looking forward to the Triathlons.
Swimming, Cycling, Beach Volleyball
Women’s Beach Volleyball (of course)
Archery
Cycling, volleyball and swimming!!
Go Canada!
Rowing
swimming, cycling, gymnastics mostly.
While I was waiting on car maintenance today I watched steeplechase, water polo, and beach volleyball in the waiting room.
Just viewed a 100m heat and how easily Usain Bolt won with minimum effort. Amazing athlete. But I have viewed a lot, especially where Chilean athletes compete.
Actually nothing, but I nearly watched road cycling.
Waiting to watch the women’s Team Pursuit finals. Should be a great race.
Swimming, Soccer, Basketball, Cycling, Track Cycling – anything really.
As much as I can!
All events right now sitting here with a torn rotator cuff
Cycling events, mens basketball, gymnastics, swimming
Yeaaah!!!
Judo best sport ever
I’ve been watching all the cycling! Can’t wait for the BMX!
Track and field, swimming, rowing, ping pong
Cycling & swiming
Cycling and rowing – it’s all about the vo2max sports for me!
My wifey made me watch Rugby…
Swimming !!!! and Soccer
Thanks Ray!
Kayaking and rowing
track racing, road racing
Swimming and anything else that’s on!
Swimming, rowing, cycling, volleyball, gymnastics.
Just the cycling – via a dodgy VPN on wobbly hi-fi whilst on holiday overseas!
Cycling!
Running of course.. and I am from Bulgaria ;)
I’ve been watching cycling and swim. I’ll watch all the sprints as well.
I have watched skeet.
Swimming, Boxing and little volleyball. (:
swimming.
Speed walking all day long
Rugby 7s – both the men’s and women’s were great games to watch. Good to see Fiji win their first ever Olympic medal.
With pain cave season closing in it would be great to get it. I’ve been watching the cycling (where women’s competitions, both in the road and in the track have been much more interesting than men’s), and volleyball.
Not a single event have I watched.
road race, itt, trampoline, kayak
Cycling road races and TT
Cycling and sailing mostly.
I’ve been watching everything but my favorites are swimming, gymnastics and beach volleyball.
Swimming, track, and cycling mainly!
Cycling and kayaking have been the only events I’ve seen. Waiting for olympic tetherball to finally become official.
definitely, basketball!
As much as I can, which is never as much as I would want to
Everything I can
Womens Tennis Finale
Lots of track cycling!
Pretty much everything! Really enjoying the olympics – especially GB cycling!
TTs ;) loved it!
I already watched all road cycling events, curently I follow track cycling and then I will defenitly watch mountain biking. Like to watch also some other random sports, especially if athlets from my country are included.
Swimming
Cycling! Swimming! Diving! And don’t forget Cupping!
Track Cycling is the most fun!
swimming, running and road cycling
Enjoying the rowing!
Fencing, field hockey, rugby 7’s
Swimming and table tennis are solid choices.
I love the gymnastics!
Would love the kickr for the winter season!
Did you see in the 50M freestyle, they hold their breath for the entire race? Granted, it’s a 21 second race, but that’s pretty neat.
Watching men’s volleyball and watching handball for the first time.
Cycling
Enjoying watching swimming, cycling, and looking froward to triathlon!
tennis, soccer, ping pong, beach volleyball, swimming
swimming and Track
In front of Nigeria-Denmark (Soccer), and looking forward to the triathonl!
Rowing, Cycling, Judo,…
BAD-Minton, baby.
Great giveaway. Been watching swimming and basketball.
Been watching road and track cycling!
Been following track cycling and football.
Anything and everything. TV channel only changes between Olympic channels