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. Keios

    2 hour low intensity bike ride.

  2. Henrik Teinvall

    Three hour brick workout for saturday and then two sessions of bike and run for sunday…..race day is coming closer

  3. Jens

    First open water swim this season. With a nice and easy ride to and from the lake.

  4. Lex

    Went for a 4.5 hour ride in the Ardennes followed by a transition run. And an endurance run on Sunday.

  5. Steve Alderton

    Recovering from a bit of a fall a couple of weeks ago, using the turbo, wishing I was out on the road again.
    Steve

  6. jose

    130 km ride on saturday

  7. Juan A. Rico

    Yesterday I did 70.3 Barcelona Ironman so this weekend will be an easy one for me.

  8. Gerard

    Saterday I do a 1 hour elliptical workout followed by 45 min of core strenght exercises.
    Sunday is resting/recovery time

    Oh, I also plan to do some Wii fitness games, a bit of retro time with the kids!

    I am sure these workouts will be better with a new fitness gadget!

    Greets

    Gerard

  9. Zenon

    Only short trail running

  10. Gavin McIntyre

    parkrun with my family to kick things off. Then myself and a few mates will hit the MTB trails to and take turns filming footage for a vid using our new drones (his Mavic Pro, my Karma).

  11. Martin Steen Mortensen

    I spend the weekend in Munich celebrating Bayern Munich’s 5th german championship in a row!
    Therefore I got to do a lot of biceps curls (1l beers) and not much else. I will have to make up for it for the next many months, sometime you just have to enjoy life a little bit…

  12. Kim Colpaert

    I go on a recon of Challenge Geraardsbergen a 70.3 triathlon that races on 2the of July!

  13. Nikos Alexiou

    Road cycling, still in base phase.
    Saturday: some late ride sweet spot intervals. Sunday: rest!, Monday: 2x25min SS. Tuesday: endurance. etc etc.
    Thanks DC, good luck to all.

  14. Andi

    Doing a little bit of recovery and maybe my first open water swim this year :)

  15. Martin Kučera

    Enjoying last two weekends before may first 70.3 Ironman. Pretty scared :-)

  16. Trey Gruel

    This was a crazy weekend, activity-wise..

    Saturday started with a short ride on my new bike, working on setup, a couple hours hiking, and finished up with an hour in Zwift.

    Sunday was 2 hours of wallyball followed by another 2 hours of ultimate.

    Pretty sure I’m going to be sore tomorrow..

  17. Yasmin Wadhai

    A 10mile tempo run, a recovery 1hr ride. The next day: a 6mile easy run, a 30min swim and some gym work. It’s off season for us now as we have 120F+ summers!!

  18. Alan

    taking the bike to Normandy (4-day weekend in France with the pont) to keep training for Iceland race

  19. Derek

    Long run through the local creek!

  20. Alexander R

    roadbike trip to my girlfriend (Upper Austria)

  21. Chris

    Did not make it out for a run this weekend. But coached 4soccer games and reffed 2 more games. Does that count???

  22. Kaje

    Ran to the farmers market to fetch some fresh veggies on Saturday and joined a local 10k run on Sunday. I wanted to run sub 40 min – managed to get 38:52 – so it went pretty well :D

  23. DavidF

    I did my first open water swim of the season…Brace yourself summer is coming.

  24. Milon

    Well, some swimming – at least two indoor/pool trainings and i will probably try the water in a lake (hopefully it will have more than 20C), of course i will do some runs and at the end of the week i will do some bike.

  25. Jan Schütt

    I’ve spend a little less then 10 hours riding my Bike throuh the night froh saturday 11 PM toll sunday morning riding the canyon 300k night ride in Koblenz, germany.

  26. Ben

    Going for a bike in the forest now the rainy season appears to be over.

  27. Mike

    Building up to Escape Alcatraz next month so it’s all about the Open Water Swims at the moment.

  28. Jozef

    I want to do 5x3km run. I fail last time when im try it last week. Now i want to finish it.

  29. Erika

    Hopefully something as Im coming back from being sick. Maybe swiming across the lake

  30. Tim

    Taking a shot at a new personal best for half marathon distance.

  31. Frank G

    Long weekend ahead, so will fit in some runs with a friend!

  32. Kestutis Gedminas

    Some endurance miles.

  33. Hubert

    Open water swim with the Nike Triathlon Club : fun and super helpful!

  34. I will go out running on saturday and biking on sunday. Hoping for good weather! And winning this price, of course ;)

  35. Victoria

    This weekend I did my first OCR and cycle.

  36. Warren

    Run a couple laps around the Rose Bowl and hop on the trainer for a quick spin

  37. This would Be sweet as a treat!

  38. I’m going to run 10km through the forrest to the swimming pool, where i will swim 1,5km. I even might run back the 10km. ?

  39. Fredrik Henrysson

    After a hard week with two different races, short MTB XC race and 10k running race. I did the first long MTB Marathon training this weekend.

  40. Nik

    Training up towards a 3-day ride around the FFS far north of Scotland next month.

  41. Dominic

    My weekend was a mixture of focused Ironman training with 150k on the bike + 20k brick run followed by a massive BBQ indulgence with too much red wine :-)

  42. Johan

    Spin class for cardio, deck building for strength.

  43. Anton Salmi

    This weekend I’m going to play at an Australian rules Football tournament in Helsinki. Go Vaasa Wombats!

  44. Sion Edwards

    A short run and longer distance run. Time to work on the run for a bit.

  45. Francesco

    I will run on Seville during my short holiday there

  46. Matthew Windle

    Sprint Triathlon! ?

  47. Sebala

    Unfortunately, my weekend was only gardening and giving help to my children’s school. Hope a more sportive on next…

  48. Ingo

    On Saturday I did a long run, Sunday was more relaxed with a shorter recovery run.

  49. Hayden

    A run around the field while my boy is at footie training. An hour at the pool. And a lot of walking as there’s a pokemon event going on.

  50. Andea Swingley

    10 mile run on Saturday, then 4 slow miles with the local Team in Training group today.

  51. Grant King

    Long run then an even longer walk with family

  52. Mindz

    Lying in the sun :p

  53. Shane o c

    Cardio and strength. A 10k run followed by a lot of work in the garden.

  54. Peter Nöu

    Weekend adventures included dancing at favorite cousins long overdue wedding. Limited in terms of actual workouts since left elbow and wrist is embedded in plaster after a bike misfortune in Spain mid April… slow recovery and no sweating allowed since plaster tends to smell…

  55. Cristian

    Just 2 short rides.

  56. Wouter De Raeve

    10k race in my hometown! But I have to stick to the training schedule… Thanks for the work!

  57. Vinay

    Rest day ;)

  58. Leeka

    Gym on Saturday and a short MTB trip on Sunday.

  59. Jaco Jansen van Vuuren

    Doing a few mountain bike rides on great singletrack with friends.

  60. Wilhelm Stassen

    Some easy cycling and a quick run

  61. Francisco Araujo

    Just a snail pace aerobic run…. Not very exciting…

  62. Jasper Plender

    Race 160 km on Friday, train for 4 hours on Saturday and train another 4 hours on Sunday

  63. Sarah J

    We have a ridiculous work week, so my coworker and I took a long morning run past the Hagia Sofia, to the Spice bazaar in Istanbul to one of the most legitimate coffee shops in all of Istanbul… and arrived right as the petit pain au chocolat was coming out of the oven.

  64. William Pretorius

    Climbing Jebel Jais 3 times, highest peak in the UAE

  65. Kid van Ramshorst

    Trying to get back in shape after a long holiday.

  66. Zaphs

    This week-end sadly I don’t beat my 10k record, so I hope I will win this price…

  67. Greg

    This week will be the start of my triathlon training, back in the water boys !

  68. Scott Millns

    Racing on my local 10 TT.

  69. Miriam

    Some hiking in the north of Spain (Picos de Europa)

  70. Yannick Lange

    Strong Viking Run – Hills Edition – 19Km Beast on the 21st.. made it 3 hours clean!

  71. Andrew

    Rest :-)

  72. Jim

    Sat and Sun… cycling with my Judo buddies in E Yorkshire

  73. Ben Reilly

    70 mile bike ride to the coast, for fish and chips! 2800 ft of climbing in flat! Lincolnshire UK.

  74. Chris C.

    Went for a recon’ ride on the bike course of my next tri.

  75. Paul hewitt

    Hopefully getting out for a run before ANOTHER wedding if s friend of the wife… all provided my bruise injury to my foot from a terrible performance at age group quals at southport tri heals

    I need this … feeling pretty depressed about yesterday!

  76. Guy

    friday and sunday a run and going for a swim on saterday

  77. Arno

    My plan for next Sunday is just an easy 10K run.

  78. Ignas Rybakovas

    Just some cycling…

  79. Dmitry Galitskiy

    Had a 1/2 marathon run in Russia in St. Petersburg. Going forward on the way the way to IM in Copenhagen.

  80. Neil A.

    A workout with my wife.

  81. sherman

    Running with children and running without children. Kinda duathlon.

  82. Morgan Williams

    This weekend was actually a recovery (lazy) one – spent the week in Douala, Cameroon…

  83. Zacharias Tsoumos

    No special adventures this weekend. Just back to back long runs with lots of elevation preparing for Olympus Marathon

  84. Alan Grehan

    Back in Ireland at a wedding and parkrunning!

  85. Stuart Raven

    I ran one of my final runs this weekend just gone in preparation for my 3rd marathon in just over a month this coming weekend. Will be last marathon until October!

  86. Tal K

    Gonna cheer my friend, she competes in the women’s triathlon in Israel this Saturday :)

  87. Jose María Flores Zazo

    Nothing special, a couple of exits with the road bike. I hope so.

  88. Tapering for a fun 3k race on the track on Wedneday.

  89. Jake George

    hill training on the surrey hills for a 100 miler coming up in July

  90. Malcalm Chew

    just ran a marathon yesterday, plan to do short run but longer ride :)

  91. Peter L

    Great blog!

  92. Olly

    After three weeks of vacation with almost no sports I’ve just enjoyed a hilly road bike ride in my neigborhood (#odenwald #melibokus). Feels like three weeks pause was way too much ;-)

  93. Andrea

    I would gladly get a Fenix 5 so that I can wear it to work as well or an edge 1000 to stop getting lost

  94. Roman

    A bit of nothing with maybe an easy 10k run thrown in.. :-)

  95. Andrei

    This weekend I made a PB on 10Km running!

  96. Nick

    Hey Ray,

    This weekend I’m training for my first triathlon of the season. A little bit of brick training to ease me in!

    Nick

  97. I’ll be cycling the the mountains of Cape Town! All day everyday.

  98. Ryan

    Recovering after a bad case of food poisoning

  99. Jean-Christophe Bettinelli

    Training for a 100km cyclosportive. I’m really late on my training plan.

  100. Chris G

    Did a 15K mountain hike.