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5 Easy Steps To The Site
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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.
Long run Saturday, bike ride Sunday.
Saturday: 75 minute spin in AM, 2 hour at Velodrome intheevening.
Sunday: 90 minute spin
Long ride for Sunday morning!
Run Saturday, ride Sunday
My bike club’s race is on Sunday.
Start my base training, run & bike in Zone 1 :)
Guiding in Mallorca! Mtb and road bike tours. So a lot of fun and kms in this island.
This weekend, it’s all about doing my “openers” Saturday night to prepare for a Sunday hangover ride :). gotta love the off season
Taper; getting ready for a half marathon next weekend!
Pints Friday, recover Saturday, CX race Sunday
Nothing this weekend. I bike commute about 150mi a week, though.
180km challenge on zwift
Doing the Zwift Cervelo ride. Just the little one, I don’t have time for 180km.
Long run on Saturday
MTB as part of the pre-season.
Last training run for the New York City Marathon!
First run after last week’s half marathon.
Some swimming and running trainings
Long run in the rain
Riding in the rain !!!!
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Long run Sunday
mtb in the dark and rain
Road to Trail and Back
I will be playing cricket all day Saturday, on Sunday we have organised a trek/hike through one of the national parks in the Perth hills. Going to be a great weekend outdoors! ??
Put my feet up & relax #OffSeason
Finally ride 180km Zwift Cervelo TT Mission
Walking. ..lots and lots of walking
Just a low key couple of runs for me this weekend.
Going off road for some trail running!
Cross country skiing ❤
Other stuff Saturday, but helping to run a local cyclocross race with a bunch of biking friends. I’ll almost certainly race as well… so both biking and running, I guess.
This weekend I will be switching my summer and winter bikes over….. So I will take the old girl out in the wet for a hard ride….mount some big hills, stop for a coffee then a cheeky clean when home before putting her to bed.
If I’m really lucky, I might be able to squeeze in an hour on the trainer, but mostly it’ll be yard work, and winterizing the house.
10k trail run
10 mi run for upcoming half marathon race in November!
Im getting married this weekend so im taking the weekend off.
Long bike and swim.
Halloween give-away: cycle until your legs say, “shut up!.”
Mountain bike Saturday and 5k run Sunday
Strength training, run, bike…
Halloween party tomorrow, that’s all about hydration :)
I’ll be racing Austin 70.3 on Sunday! Going to be a warm day on the run!
Long run this weekend!
Recover. Beer.
Strength training and running… and some Halloween hijinks!
Lots of futbol
Hoping get one more mountain bike ride in before the trails get snowed over!
This weekend will involve ordering a smart trainer, some long rides in the rain and hopefully some tramping through the woods!
Hmm, as I look outside, it might be snow, not rain. :(
Pedal my pumpkin to the wizards castle to steal all the candy from the moomins!
hike in the mountains
Watching a marathon, off season weight program and a bike ride.
Long trainer ride
Long run!
What’s on tap: A local 5K as a warmup for the Draft Legal races in New Orleans the weekend of 11/05.
Bike + Trail running
Swimming and Halloween party!
Easy riding this weekend after having some achilles problems from last weekend. Also going to check out a LBS Halloween ride!
Yassos
I have a cold, so the bed is where I will be.. ?
One (maybe two) Trainer Road sessions on my Wahoo KICKR.
Hopefully a 120 min spin
Park run and a long run afterwards. Then some time on the kickr!
I am working nights this weekend, so my training will be limited to some turbo work between shifts… A little sufferfest maybe, aways love a little enterPAINment.
Going to run the last 10 miles of the TCS NYC Marathon course in prep for the race
I’m using a marathon training plan to prepare for a 50K. The plan calls for 11 so I’ll probably run 13.
Today I did a short ride spiced up with a little rum tasting midways. Hopefully I get in two more rides during the weekend although most likely without the rum.
Lots of riding over the weekend
A long trail run in prep for Ragnar AZ
Wrapping up week 6 of training for Disney Marathon weekend:
– 3x 10 minute threshold intervals
– 150 minute long run
Starting my first 5 K training program!! justification for a new pair of running shoes
Some easy off season trainer road time.
Beat my record for 10k and cycle for pleasure. Then swim a little in a swimming pool.
The Royal Air Force Triathlon Association’s training weekend – going to hurt from big swim, bike and run seas ions! !
Trail running and maybe some swimming
Getting back to it after off season
Beautiful weather calls for a TT bike sprint on Saturday and a leisurely road tour of the Fall color on Sunday.
Light run to build back up my achilles.
I have a demo mountain bike I’m gonna harsh on so hard…..
Ride with friends @07:00
A long mountain bike ride!
I’ll be riding my bike indoors, unfortunately.
Nevada day/Halloween bike ride. ~40 miles 2500 ft climbing.
gym & climbing
Ironman 70.3 Austin
Rain ride Friday, an epic powercranks Saturday session and then The Wicked Ride of the East on Sunday. Followed hitting reset and starting it all again Monday.
I am of to a running weekend in a summerhouse with 7 other friends. We are of to a race – ???
I’ll be getting a ride in Saturday morning, then prepping the trainer for a long winter of in-door riding.
Another couple test runs on the new custom insoles that I got from Roadrunner. So far, they’re alleviating knee pain that used to strike after about 1.5 miles. Fingers crossed.
Roadbikeing for the last time outside this year ?
This weekend, just an endurance ride, 3 hours at most, and some strength and mobility work.
I live in Florida, I am riding a metric on Saturday and 40 miles in the hills of San Antonio, FL on Sunday.
Hunting and running
Lots of walking around Six Flags for my kid’s birthday.
Lots of running and riding while the weather is holding up in Colorado!
Some deload and accessory work, getting ready for next powerlifting contest
A little bit of this, a little bit of that…
This weekend were going mountainbiking with my beautifull Border Collie dog Athos. He loves the single track racing :D For me it will be a challange of keeping up with him.. he’s so fast..
Snow biking in the Rockies.
A long run on saturday plus a bike ride on sunday with the team. Gas!
Transition (T2) training on saturday. Swimming and 5k run on sunday. I wish I could film next one, with my Go Pro 5.
Cross-country skiing season is back.
First training sessions start on Saturday and go on for the whole (long) weekend