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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.
Swimming and triathlon.
The women’s Rugby Sevens has been fantastic!
Every Mexican out there competing!
Swimming!
Swimming, diving, gymnastics, track & field
Lots of swimming and track cycling! And of course the road races.
I’ve been watching a bit of everything, but mostly swimming since that was my primary sport growing up and one of my old teammates was competing!
Swimming is the best
Swimming, Cycling. Oh well, just about everything.
opening ceremonies and swimming
Handball, volleyball, and the marathons
I watched as much cycling as I could, and always love to watch swimming and track and field.
Literally everything. It’s not easy.
Hockey / Archery / Swimming
Cycling , athletics
Gymnastics, swimming, running!
Swimming and track
Road cycling, track cycling, tennis, golf, and dancing horses.
Seems like field hockey is all that’s ever on when I’m able to watch. Weird sport, field hockey.
Gymnastics, heptathlon, swimming
Swimming. Track.
Limited coverage at home. :(
Diving!
Enjoying the Track cycling … had to Google the rules for most of them (Omnium is crazy!)
Swimming, track, gymnastics aka all of it!
Road cycling and swimming!
I’ve been watching very little, mostly swimming and running online clips.
Swimming
Track all the way!
Track cycling.
Obviously the cycling, track and field and the swimming
Swimming, beach volley-ball and of course the 100 meters
Pretty much everything I can, but cycling is the priority!
Cycling & track & field.
Cycling, beach volleyand weightlifting, – so far. Bmx to come.
Women tennis gold medal match, first gold for PUR!
Watching the track cycling
Road race, rugby, v-ball, badminton, so far.
Track cycling every time.
Weight lifting, track cycling, gymnastics
I’ve enjoyed the swimming.
Cycling, T&F, diving , Gymnastics, archery, rugby, rowing, wightwater ?
Everything!!!!
Track cycling
Women’s field hockey and of course triathlon!
All of the cycling. The men’s omnium second half and women’s omnium first half today were insane. And that crazy wall riding over the weekend!
Soccer, track, and swimming.
Just finish women’s marathon swim. More tackling than water polo.
Swimming and running.
Swimming, track, road cycling, rugby
Any cycling event
Swimming, gymnastics, track and field, cycling rowing! I love it all!
Absolutely every event I can!
Bits and pieces of swimming cycling and sailing
All the cycling. Road and track and looking forward to the MTB and BMX. Plus Canadian women’s soccer.
Cycling, swimming, track and field
Hockey, cycling, diving, golf and track and field.
Cycling and soccer
Swimming!
Swimming
Track cycling all day long….
Women’s Tennis- Proud to be a puertorrican, PR got the gold!! And track & field!! Javier Culson& Eric Alejandro, PR
Synchronized Swimming!
Volleyball!
Swimming, cycling, track and field, gymnastics, synchronized swimming, etc., etc. The Olympics are the greatest things ever.
Swimming and beach volleyball
Cycling, tennis, golf, hockey, pommel, bit of horse dancing and Beach volleyball! *coughs”
All of them. Or at least everything NBC televises in their primetime coverage.
Gymnastics, athletics, trampoline! Also watching our Canadian athletes closely!
Swimming, track & field, basketball.
Swimming mostly
As many events as I can.
Beach volleyball!
Please! Watching road and time trial, and pretty much every track event that doesn’t have me up at 2 am here in Singapore.
Mostly track and swimming. But everything! Love the Olympics.
All the track and field events.
Track cycling?
It’s all about the track cycling!
trying to watch as much track as possible
Omnium
Mostly cycling, crazy action by Cav.
Everything in the Velodrome!
Almost missed this one! I’ve been watching a little bit of everything, but really enjoyed learning about Rugby Sevens.
Cycling (road and track), athletics and a bit of gymnastics
All the running and gymnastics. Now just waiting for the triathlon races!
Swimming,Beach Volley and now Track and Filed
All the cycling! And waiting for the triathlon.
As U’m in Spain generally what they want to watch – did like the spanish No. 1 women’s badminton player as she made it look tooo easy
Everything that comes on! Wrestling,basketball, volleyball, swimming, handball, kayaking, even walking!
Road racing
Lots of swimming and running. Looking forward to triathlon soon!
Swimming
Been watching Cycling and fencing
Anything with Portuguese athletes…. and all Athletics I can find.
Track cycling and time trial, sailing, rowing and looking forward to open water swim and triathlon
EVERYTHING! Cycling, gymnastics, all track events…. this is better than Netflix lol….
Everything I can
Swimming, gymnastics and supporting my town’s own Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad!
swimming
I’ll be watching triathlon, all the swimming events and any cycling events that I’m able to see.
Swimming, Diving, Athletics are my favourite sports to watch!