The Day in May DCR $500 Gadget Giveaway!

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It’s a day in May.  No, not May Day.  That, according to Wikipedia is May 1st.  Rather, it’s May 20th – which I reason is 20 times better than May 1st (albeit, less awesome than May 5th).  Why’s it better?  Because I’m giving away gadget awesomeness.  I originally planned to give away the Garmin FR935 GPS watch, the backorder is basically down to almost nothing.  But then I figured – you can choose anything you’d like.  Perhaps you’re more of a cyclist, or you just want a large pile of compression sleeves instead.  Your choice.

Speaking of coverage – if you didn’t see my tweet yesterday, there’s a BOATLOAD of sales on right now (both from Clever Training as well as others).  The best deal being 30% off the Garmin FR735XT GPS watch.  But also some solid 20% off deals on power meters, trainers, and 25% off on Suunto gear.  The full details are here!

In any case, the winner will get a $500 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 basically anything they sell (or get points instead).  If you win, you can use that credit for anything from the GoPro Hero5 Black to that Garmin FR935, to a random pair of socks to the PowerTap C1 power meter, or heck, even towards a new trainer.  With that kind of credit, the world is your oyster (except…they don’t sell oysters).

How to enter:

Simply leave a note about what athletic adventures you’re up to this weekend.  Easy as that!

Oh – and you’ll likely avoid the SPAM filters if you’re more detailed than just the word ‘run’.  Nobody likes to get sandwiched between two pieces of SPAM. Got all that?

Good luck!

The giveaway entry period will run through Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 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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7,467 Comments

  1. Will

    Exploring routes around my daughter’s new house. I’ll be spending time there with the grandkids.

  2. Ondrej Vanis

    I tried going up Monte Camoghe but there was too much snow

  3. Patrick

    I’m doing no athletic endeavor this weekend because I have a cold. Hoping to make up for it Memorial Day weekend.

  4. Ingo

    8 miles.. longest run post knee surgery in March… While hopefully looking for a new place to live. Will be exploring miles, so always exciting

  5. Vincent sentner

    Swimming & watching baseball on gv ?

  6. Elizabeth

    This weekend I gave up my long run to track to London with my Husband a dog. All for the best reason ever watching his daughter race in the Highgate Harriers Night of the 10000 PBs. She was running the women’s A race – Jo Pavey was in the same race. She smashed her goal – European qualifying time and got a BUCS (Varsity equivalent) bronze medal. So so amazing. Not much else I’d give up my run for!

  7. Oisin Maguire

    Ran 8km at an easy recovery pace to be ready for a solid bike and swim brick session Monday morning :-)
    can’t beat that for the start of a week.

  8. David

    Continuing my runstreak with days 146 & 147! Hope the weather holds

  9. Miha

    Orienteering

  10. Andy Pole

    Getting back to fitness with some running

  11. Charles

    Long ride on Friday and long run on Saturday. Rest day on Sunday

  12. Yevgen

    Did a DneprTriFest sprint. not bad even if the water was like +12c

  13. Radu Gulie

    Going for a 200km ride on a time trial bike. Auch

  14. Brent

    90 km ride sat, lsd run Sunday (if the lightning will stop), and tempo ride Monday. Oh, and work. To help pay for all of the play…

  15. Brano Jacko

    Trail run with my dog

  16. Jorge

    Ride out around berlin’s lakes and run around Berlin’s parks

  17. Dave O

    Well, since I had to work on Saturday, I didn’t let it get me down. 40 mile bike to work, 40 miles back, then finish with a 50 miler on Sunday. Thank Ray

  18. Olof

    I ran the world’s largest half marathon, Göteborgsvarvet.

  19. Ty Whelan

    3 hr MTB with my partner Kylie @ Old Hiddenvale Adventure Park.

  20. Laszlo Toth

    Raced at Ironman 70.3 Barcelona and had a fantastic day!

  21. Had a cold for 8 weeks, then one week well with training, then setback with 3 days of fever, but now up and running again! So i have not yet decided what to do, but most likely take a run or two and also adjust the bike for the outdoor season! One of my sons also turning 4 yrs, so I’ll likely take a run with him while he’s on the bike beside me with some new shiny gadgets on the bike

  22. Zac

    Building my wife’s surprise bike for our anniversary as well as spectating a 5k she is running in. I am also planning to do a 35 mile training ride in the great outdoors this evening before subset!

  23. Lee

    A jog with my dogs

  24. Mark

    Circuit training.

  25. Si

    I was run director for our monthly 10k trail event. So lots of rushing about getting people into the right places and not any race action!

  26. Ion Gruea

    I’m teaming up with 5 friends for a 193 km and 2800 m gentlemen’s race. This year’s course is undisclosed but previous editions had tough climbs, one of them on gravel, and I’m not much of a climber.

  27. Keith

    Mountain Biking around ATL on a few of the courses here!!

  28. Philip Taylor

    Saturday – Bike intervals on the trainer.
    Sunday – Day of rest!

  29. Cw78

    Saturday long swim and Sunday a long run.

  30. Stephen Schwartz

    First ever run in London (I was there for a conference) on a beautiful Saturday morning. Did the top Strava route for London: Westminster and Big Ben, across the Thames and down the South Bank to Tower Bridge and back. Tons of sights. Ten of the funnest kilometers ever. Highly recommend it.

  31. Mike Bisson

    100M ultra 2wks ago and a marathon next wkend, so this one was just a cycle to and from work ysday, and chasing the kids around the park with a bit of kite flying and tennis thrown in today.

  32. Johannes

    Road bike trip to Vienna with my friend Alex ?

  33. Alan

    Training for my first triathlon! Running yesterday (6 mi interval day) and 45 mi road bike ride through Georgia today. Cheers!

  34. Marc

    Cheering my son on at the local kids tri and squeezing in my workout before the weather front hit.

  35. Just pedalling away on my bike…

  36. Jorge Fernandes

    10km run with interval for sprinting.

  37. Matt Gillam

    My wife and I spent the weekend on the walking trail training our new puppy. He was only good for two miles but great joggers and bike riders made it invaluable!

  38. Radim

    Hi, on saturday I attended a XC marathon race and on sunday a nice road bike recovery ride.

  39. Chris

    Bike during the weekend..twice

  40. Anthony

    A swim and a run for me

  41. Josep

    Bike rides until knee recovers.

  42. Olivier leclercq

    Rollerskiing for me

  43. Mr T

    Running, mostly. Insofar as repeatedly climbing the same hill at the pace of an asthmatic pensioner counts as running anyway.

  44. Miquel

    I’ve run a little bit in my hometown. I went home for the weekend

  45. Andrew Simpson

    Trail running trying to gain over 1000m elevation on Saturday :)

  46. Erik

    Cycling for two hours on Sunday.

  47. Paula Smith

    On Saturday, run conference championship with my training group; on Sunday, run 14 miles through Baltimore (a favorite city) with my favorite coach. The Sunday run is celebrating a great coach’s instructions that helped me earn a huge PR at a recent half marathon!

  48. Jack Toland

    Just knocked out the French Creek Triathlon in Pennsylvania

  49. Robin

    Still rehabbing from knee replacement so a 3 mile walk for me. Starting slow!

  50. Jan

    I was riding my gravel bike today to support my girlfriend at her first marathon. She did it!

  51. Teresa

    I just completed Ironman Chattanooga 70.3!

  52. Andreas Gunnerås

    Just an easy run since I’m recovering from the flu.

  53. Christer

    I’m up for a 600km bike competition called Vänern runt..

  54. Steve E.

    Training 5k’s both Saturday and Sunday, followed by yard work.

  55. Andrew Field

    Went for a short run and injured my foot, massive bruise on my instep and an ice pack for company.

  56. Lars Schiefelbein

    Running through the party strip and hundreds of drunken teens, probably not again…

  57. Adeline Ng

    Preparing for the Gold Coast Marathon and learning to Freebord.

  58. Dave Nield

    Will be helping out at Wetherby parkrun and then taking a long run early on Sunday morning.

  59. JF Gagne

    Just starting tapering for 21k next week end…

  60. Jacy Crosby

    On Saturday, I stared at my three bikes and decided to drink a beer instead. On Sunday, I joined a road ride.

  61. Dan Balestrieri

    Trail runs and kettlebells!

  62. Interval running on track.

  63. Chris

    Getting in some hill training on South Mountain in Phoenix, AZ!

  64. Jon Haig

    Last big week of training for the Hamburg Half Marathon this week with interval training on Monday, couple of sorter 6 and 10 km spread through the week and then a trainings 21km at the weekend … oh and it’s Christi Himmelfart here in Germany so will be hopefully out with the kids on the bike on Thursday :) ….. should keep me busy!

  65. Todd fujimoto

    Climbing the hills of Pasadena on my bike!

  66. Shawn

    easy recovery run after long week of cycling!

  67. Constance

    I have had a busy weekend with a few personal records:
    – i ran 10km for the first time (took me 1:07 but hopefully i ll improve by the 10k race mid june)
    – i did my longest ride ever (100km)
    – i lead a group of cyclists for a 45km ride as they were all recent members of my cycling club

    So a great weekend! :)

  68. Jesse Bennett

    Not much I’m sick as all get out!

  69. Paul B

    Set up & ride my new KICKR 2 and run my son’s school walkathon

  70. Mick mc cann

    Nice 80k cycle,well nice enough in between showers.

  71. Leonard

    I went out for my first run after hurting my chests 3 weeks ago. Painful!

  72. Joe

    Hilly 10k training run after a rare boozy weekend

  73. MBP

    Indoor cycling at home :)

  74. Jean-Sylvain Gauthier

    Recovery cycling rides.

  75. petec

    cycling with my daughter on her new bike, in the spring sunshine. Bliss.

  76. Jonathan

    Training for my half marathon coming up in July, mid distance runs on both days, love running.

  77. Joined a sprint triathlon as opening of the season.

  78. Kevin Cook

    Riding my bike, then running with the wife!

  79. Marisa G

    Yesterday was a brick workout. 90 min spin and 80 min trail run. Today was a 3 hour ride.

  80. Peter Wassink

    I made a new record for my 5km. A moderate 5:09/km.

  81. Harold Veldman

    30 mile ride. First 15 into a tough east wind. The return was bliss.

  82. Rachel Walters

    My weekend so far has consisted of walking 3-4 miles in a twelve hour shift at work, and lifting heavy patients up in bed. I wish I was riding my new bike, but work kind of takes priority. Who says you can’t work out when you’re a night shift nurse?

  83. Andreas Eriksson

    Half-marathon race, then some much needed rest.

  84. Sif

    Ride my bike 80k

  85. Wim Geerts

    Sprint orienteering belgian championship

  86. Philip

    Saturday I ran a trail marathon, today I ran a birthday party for 10 six year Oldenburg. Your guess, which run was tougher…

  87. Martin Middlemiss

    Running hill repeats, got a few mountain races coming up, need to find my climbing legs

  88. Andreanna Tuten

    Today is a rest day! Tomorrow is a run day! Specifically a 5 mile tempo run on my favorite route! And early enough to beat the heat!!

  89. Jeff Hancock

    Did a practice run of Memorial Day Cotton Row 10K….and boy was it hot!

  90. Clément Riché

    Enghien’s triathlon today (m) :)

  91. Kat Murray

    Saturday did 45mi ride with 3500ft elevation and today open water swim followed by a 12mi run.

    IMLP2017…..I’m looking at you!

  92. Paul

    Trail run on Bidston Hill on Saturday. Short amble on the bike on Sunday

  93. Christopher Andersson

    Some disc golf, a bit of running and some biking with my road racer.

  94. Cormac Ryan

    I borrowed my dads road bike and took it out for my first long ride! Only 30km as I’m only getting into cycling but I absolutely loved it! Other than that I went for a run and lifted some weights too! All about getting moving and having fun!

  95. Jeff Brenner

    Keeping the run streak alive through 179 days and successfully completed my third half marathon in a month @GeistHalf

  96. Steve T

    A couple of nice long runs.

  97. Jonathan

    Sauturday was a rest and recovery day from the Amgen toc ride. Sunday was a easy 6 mile run in the heat. Now more recovery.

  98. Did my first 3km open water swim!

  99. Jamie

    Soccer game…wish i was going on a long bike ride instead.

  100. Drew

    First long run after battling injury the past 6 months.