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. SCOTT ARMSTRONG

    Trainer Road!

  2. Cristian Tudorache

    A 50km easy bike ride.

  3. Harshad

    A hike in the Rockies.

  4. Norman Kwong

    Weather permitting, a hike in the local escarpment area

  5. benoit valery

    Small run between two rains

  6. Tyler

    Quite a busy weekend.
    4 soccer games for my 3 kiddos, 2 of whom I coach. A birthday party at a trampoline park.
    30+ dawn bike ride, mowing a large yard with a push mower, and my kids first cross-highway bike ride to a dinner spot; quite a feat in my just-now-becoming-bike-friendly city.

  7. Donna

    Core work as I’m training for a 5 miler next weekend.

  8. Louis Stone

    My wife has been angling for a GPS watch for a while. So, that seems like the most logical course of action if I were to win. That and running socks.

  9. Francisco Guzman

    Raced a Sprint triathlon sporting the awesome TRS Racing kit… but who cares about me? My son (7) did his first Splash and Dash 150 swim / 1/2 mile run at the same race… and won! We celebrated a double family AG win! Ray, isn’t that worthy of a giveaway prize?

  10. Jeff b

    Ran a 10k in prep for upcoming triathlon. Pumped to use my new garmin edge 820 I just bought from clever training!

  11. David

    On call this weekend so it was a cross training weekend only

  12. marian

    sad to have no adventures this weekend. had dental surgery.
    can’t wait to be on the trails again

    thanks for the giveaway!!

  13. Bruno

    No activity for me – just recovering from pneumonia.. looking forward to be back on my bike again..

  14. Sebastian Neumair

    Went on an epic 270k ride, battery was about to die… You all know what I need, don’t you?

  15. Martynas

    Our running club had a camp by the sea. On Saturday everybody did long run and some orienteering (so more km than usually). Anyway on Sunday we had a race and EVERYBODY (including me) did 5 km PB :)

  16. BJ Elliott

    Golfed 18 holes and went a nice long run!

  17. Kim MacDonald Cameron

    Getting some biking in and hopefully a run.

  18. Peter

    I ran the 6k fulda challenge run with another 7500 People .. was Great fun and best Weather for this. to do some more km i started from Home .. to geht 15 k ;-)

  19. Mikko Turtiainen

    Long run +30km

  20. Rheigel Golosino

    Speaking of adventure. I will now start my real training for Milo Marathon (Philippines) with a 21k LSD run and 30km bike. I just had my injury and I think its a previllege to have this kind of technology with me to reach my goal.

  21. Fiete Marie Baldenius

    Start with a good swim, continue with a little run and finish with a long bike ride. And then? Repeat… ?

  22. Don Pendergraft

    I’m going to try to go for a hike around the lake.

  23. Antti H

    Going to explore new regions around my home city!

  24. Whitney

    Go for a hike with my family! It’s always nice to get out and get some fresh air!

  25. Lucian Pavel

    Going out with the mountainbike first time in 6 months after a back injurie :)

  26. Brad Baldwin

    Intervals and intervals of course.

  27. Andrey Nakov

    A couple of runs by the sea.

  28. Ryan G

    Chasing children around the house and yard.

  29. Mark douglass

    Raining so on zwift doing the pretzel.

  30. Adam Lucas

    I ran the Dirty Dog 15k trail run and I came in dead last.

  31. Mathias Papapetrou

    Hi,

    Saturday was a nice little recovery day, followed by a nice 80km ride on Sunday up the mountains.

  32. Roelof

    I’ll be running along the river :)

  33. Richard Chapman

    Flying to French Alps to attempt the Col De Jeux.

  34. Conner

    I am doing a long run on Sunday and am babysitting Sunday afternoon!

  35. Natraj Ponna

    Bike intervals plus endurance bike followed by progresssive brick run on Saturday and straight recovery bike ride on Sunday!

  36. Ryan

    Running 10K with my team this weekend for charity. It’s a fundraiser organized by the Tim Tebow Foundation (yes, that’s the former pro-football player) to help children with orthopedic needs.

  37. Rodney E

    Outdoor spin to get away from the indoor training screen.

  38. Alexandru Popescu

    This weekend I’ll have a fast training 5k and in the middle I’ll have some 1000 steps to climb.

    • Nadeen

      This weekend I’m going to do a 5k run/walk with my beautiful boys and play tennis

    • Ash

      Got hit by a car whilst doing the kinglake climb. Luckily im slow so no damage done, just a few bruises

  39. lepadatu ionut

    30 min run arround the block

  40. Stefan

    Bike weekend in Läde/Mora Sweden, 3 days off with friends chasing KOMs..

  41. Jonathan Burchmore

    I ran 3 hours in nearly 100degF heat.

  42. Martin Nel

    I rode the local mountain bike trails.

  43. Daniel

    Step training: moving out of second floor.

  44. KamilN

    Mountaint bike with my fiance.

  45. JM

    Marathon race day!

  46. Max B

    Running in the the knee deep snow!

  47. Borna Prpic

    I would like to fix my watch and go swimming :)

  48. Joe Drury

    I hope to get a few runs in and maybe swing some kettlebells

  49. antonypapa

    Triathlon in Shanghai. Enjoy a happy and sincere life of training.

  50. Chase carter

    Biked easy 20 mins on Saturday. Ran Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga Sunday (finished in under 6 hrs, which for my first time I thought was pretty good).

  51. Adrian

    Training up for Tri!

  52. Erica

    Getting back to running and cycling, just off an injury. Yay!

  53. José

    Went for a ride Saturday and then a run Sunday. So much slower than my normal slow.

  54. Jim Ford

    Would $500 to spend on some new sports tech really motivate me to get out and run again? I don’t know, but I sure am willing to try!

    Just kidding D.C., I’m going to start running again on Tuesday over lunch…even without a fancy new watch. Just a 10-min pace mile out and a brisk walk back.

    For real though, I sure would love to get something new and modern. My FR305 still works, but boy is it ancient!

  55. Stefan

    Local half marathon :)

  56. Bree

    The weather warmed up enough that I could finally get all my workouts done outside! A nice 2:00 brick on Saturday and easy 2:00 ride on Sunday!

  57. Robert Olasz

    This weekend we organized an orienteering race, where i ran a lot to deploy check points, and had 50k road bike ride.

  58. Rico Mundy

    Riding Tour of the Unknown Coast in northern California. Beautiful but was really fun on my adventure bike.

  59. Veveroiu

    This weekend in my first 21k this year… A week after a grueling cross-country bike contest and two weeks after my best 10k in a race ( just under 50 – I know it doesn’t seems much… But for me it is). So… If a live after that I will be happy !

  60. Akhil Alex

    A 10km local run(peacock run)
    20 km ride in the evening :)

  61. bart van vlierberghe

    funny mtb rIde in belgium with our gang
    link to youtu.be
    that’s why we train .. For the fun with the friends

  62. Arnd D.

    2 quick Rides around the block as my daugther ist visiting us.

  63. Jerod Harper

    Started cycling this year. Rode for 1.5 hours to Birch Bay in NW Washington state.

  64. John M Echeveste

    Taking a break for a beer and food festival! Better ride my eyes out this week in prep…

  65. Marc-Antoine Mauger

    Long bike ride in preparation of a fundraising 1000km event

  66. Daniel cowan

    Training for my first marathon! Been a goal for many years and I’m finally making it happen on the sunny Gold Coast, Australia!

  67. Nate T

    Run on saturday, ride on sunday

  68. Matthew

    Did a 5K with the family today

  69. Lodhammar

    Running all weekend

  70. David R

    Wallpaper stripping repeats and paint roller sprints… does that count?

  71. Tom

    Running after my two kids on their bicycles.

  72. Christina

    Open water swim practice and dry land training Saturday. Escort kayaker for a 10K open water swim Sunday.

  73. Scott H

    Working this weekend, but beautiful weather for commuting on the bike

  74. Josh S

    It was a busy weekend of life stuff so I just did a couple moderate runs. But they were at the beach, so there’s that

  75. Keith

    A couple of tiddly 10k-ers in the fantastic British sun.

  76. Mike

    First time squatting in my home gym !

  77. Janus egenby

    I an doing a 24 hour MTB race ??

  78. Urs Rudolph

    Brick Run
    First 30k Bike, then 7k Run

  79. Murray

    Hard to beat the guy who ran the Great Wall Marathon in China! Did my first bike race in over 30 years! Did 69km in 1:43 and pretty much cooked these old legs!

  80. Saturday: Easy Trainer ride with Fast efforts
    Sunday: easy jog

    Ironman AZ 70.3 training has begun just as the weather starts heating up!

  81. Matt

    Starting training for 1st tri in 2 years

  82. David Diener

    Went on an outride to a local MTB trail, took a bit of a tumble down a slope.

  83. Jason Eley

    Ready for a new running watch

  84. Ryan Panganiban

    A little swim and some kms on the bike

  85. Gertjan van den Eijkel

    Just a short ride. Still recovering from the last surgery

  86. John Phoebus

    On Saturday, we ran five miles before watching the Preakness. On Sunday, we biked 20 miles to get ready for the first metric century of the season next weekend.

  87. Patrick Chan

    Simple hiking up Victoria Peak (and all the way up to West High Mount) in Hong Kong :)

  88. Ben

    Hiking around Hong Kong!

  89. Carlos Restrepo

    I did my last ride before the next sunday Gran Fondo in Colombia. It will be great

  90. KeithS

    Having a ball on my brand new trek.

  91. Kraig

    “Lifting weights” by cleaning up broken tree limbs from an odd heavy and wet winter snow storm in May in Colorado.

  92. Nik Felbermayr

    2h10 Sweet Spot Ride on my Sworks Shiv with 330W Normalized Power. Preparation to smash the middle distance relay next weekend…

  93. Yuri G

    A 20km trail run on Saturday and a 30km hike on Sunday

  94. Fred

    I will run in Caucasus for pleasure

  95. Michael Bauer

    Triathlon training: 80km bike + 10km run

  96. Alicia Amaro

    On Saturday I’ll be cheering 570 girls, encouraging them to cross the finish line of a 5k, for many their first. On Sunday, going for a much needed run.

  97. Pierre Fourie

    This weekend was all about getting healthy again first after falling ill.

  98. Matthew Roach

    Run around Greenlake (in Seattle) with my 14 year old tracking it on my Garmin fenix 5!

  99. Adam

    I have injured left foot so no running, but I am fine on bike and did 2 rides this weekend.

  100. Daniel Grosu

    Hi,

    I will have a bike Tour of approximately 100 km with 600m difference of height. :)