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. Bastien

    This week end I’ll participate to my first triathlon ever ! It’s a sprint distance but still I am feeling nervous :)

  2. Steffen

    Weekend is already over but I had a swim in on saturday morning and a 10k race on saturday evening

  3. toto

    Recovery run

  4. Nigel

    Cycling from Venice to Porec in Croatia.

  5. Ile H

    16K run on Saturday and 5K tempo run on Sunday.

  6. Jaakko Kangas

    Riding with my girlfriend whose training for her first race.

  7. Tomasz

    I spent active 2 days with my daughters – went to the pool, museums, playgrounds and the beach. Better than a tri workout – I dare everyone :)

  8. Sebastian

    Friday 5km run, Saturday 97km bike ride, Sunday 600m learn swimming.

  9. Mirosław Nieścioruk

    Long run, as most weekends. Training for the marathon.

  10. John D.

    Some cycling, some running, and then maybe some running and cycling :p

  11. I will be training for a century ride I will be doing next month.

  12. Filippo Martinelli

    Unfortunately nothing of exciting.
    Only two short run and an indoor climbing!

  13. Danny Stolfa

    A Solo Beer Mile run! Never done it before, so it’ll be a PR!!

  14. Manson

    Just easy run 10km and swim 2.5km

  15. Jikki Vanamstel

    I get to play with my new bike! And by ‘play’ I mean, putting on the bottle holders, new seat, bags and all the cool bits!!

  16. Barry van Oven

    Running the Festa Herault Trail with my wife: 75 km, 3200 meters vertical and lots of rocks.

  17. Jacob

    Ride 60, swim 1.2, run13

  18. Michal

    Dragon boat race!

  19. Giuseppe Paoletti

    Doing two MTB rides, with bad weather too!!

  20. Søren Bentzen

    This weekend’s activities is Windsurfing and running.

  21. Onder Eren

    i walked aprox. 12 km (8 miles) at the first day of weekend and 10 km (6 miles) at Sunday

  22. Richard Ferguson

    parkrun, long slow run on Sunday

  23. Mikko

    Orienteering, rollercoasting, constructing work and outing…

  24. Thomas

    Long hiking around Oslo!

  25. Saterday 4k swim, easy 30 min run. Sunday, 200k bike.

  26. Laszlo

    Run around the Lake Balaton (220 km) in 20 hours with my friends instantly.

  27. Matthew Davies

    Training for Whaka 100 MTB race in NZ. A power meter would be a huge help!

  28. Florian

    I’ll hopefully get some hill running in.

  29. Kostas

    A 7km fun race to kick my training season

  30. Kasper

    I did my first long-ish bike ride this year, and now my ass hurts.

  31. Tercel

    I’ll be jogging and cycling. Wish I could leave the city for a Hike!

  32. trained my cousins impromptu swim for a triathlon this end of may. we just have 2 weeks before the even. starting with kickboard then full swing freestyles and simulations asap this week

  33. Brad G

    A Recovery run for me as well, but recovery from the “man flu” …

  34. John

    Headed to the BolderBOULDER! Pretty excited for that run!

  35. garrop

    Ran 20k in the mountains in the middle of an upcoming flu. Not so bad after all.

  36. Michael Andersen

    Went for a couple of runs and a longer bike ride

  37. Took the new TT bike for a 160k spin. Yes, my neck is a little sore!

  38. Luis Javier

    A 32 km. long run on sunday. Training for a marathon on June, 4.

  39. Claus Nielsen

    2 hours of mtb

  40. Anton

    I was doing halfmarathon and set new personal best 1:27:51

  41. Rasmus

    On sunday I ran Copenhagen Marathon.

  42. James Cheah

    A couple hours on Zwift on Saturday in the newly organised pain cave, as a prelude to Sunday’s 230km Audax training ride into Malaysia – tropical thunderstorms, broken rear d cables and all!! Hell yeah!!! :)))

  43. Dimitri

    Just done a pacemaker for my wife for a centure :-)

  44. Raphaël

    Just walking a lot in Paris!

  45. Mikko L

    Easy 80km ride in the sunshine (first time this year!) and new tanlines!

  46. Marco

    Climbing in Montserrat

  47. Yuriy

    Just for a walk, maybe a little bit of cycling as I got collar bone fracture. Unfortunately this summer I have to behave like grandpa:)

  48. Povilas

    Just recovering from a broken arm thus the weekend was very easy with a lot of brooding about missed adventure race.

  49. Paolo

    First time after knee surgery that I managed to bike 100k and run 20k on the same day, definitely a weekend worth remembering!

  50. Short bikeride from holiday destination to home.

  51. Sonny

    2 cycling sessions planned, one on Saturday (hard) and one on Sunday (easy)

  52. Matthias Fill

    This weekend I’ll cycle from Zurich (Switzerland), where I live, to the Dolomites in South Tyrol (Italy), where I am coming from, in two days. About 180 km and >3000 meters of elevation each day. Beautifull passes, long climbs, nice roads ahead. I am quite nervous now, but I hope it turns out fine.

  53. Lance VB

    I will enjoy the Giro, wishing I was there!

  54. Lars Ødegaard

    Biking to and from work, so hopefully no more rain this week.

  55. Mariusz

    12km with 500m uphills trail run in polish mountains.

  56. Jesus

    Biking tour on this long weekend here in Germany! :)

  57. Hilla Benita

    On my way to Scotland to do some trails :)

  58. Alexander

    It’s a great page you’re running!
    This weekend I’m as usual going to ride my bike. Preparing for the 300km Swedish gran fondo “Vätternrundan” witch is coming up in a month.

  59. Iain Gray

    I have to work night this weekend:(, but plan to gets some runs in at bait time.

  60. mixuli

    Saturday recovering, Sunday wake up at 4am for 18 miles long run.

  61. On Saturday morning, I went to a yoga class. The weather was not very good.
    On Sunday, the weather improved, so I went for a 22k, 500m altitude gain run. I was quite tired afterwards, but it felt good.

  62. James

    Spent my morning shift gazing longingly at the fantastic weather outside – got an hour or two of daylight after I finished up to finally check out my new local 10km loop. I’m currently getting back into running after a long hiatus (from running – I have been doing a lot of cycling including spending April in Japan taking in 2200km with 40,000m of elevation) – what better way to recover from my run (somewhat less athletically) with a dinner where beer and wine were competing for best pairing. This then required its own recovery the following morning, followed by a 100km ride before switching in to night shift. One more night shift and then I have a nice mid-week weekend!

  63. Wycat

    Running on Uetliberg’s muddy trails “top of Zürich”

  64. Zé Pinho

    I would say an open water swim Saturday morning.

  65. Steve

    Walking the LDWA 100 mile Hike, across the North York Moors.48 hour time-limit.

  66. Alek

    On sunday I do 1/2 IM.

  67. Louise Kennedy

    50 mile charity bike ride on my vintage bike – 1976 Gazelle Champion Mondial. Wonderful!

  68. Rafał

    Just few km on road bike, to be in shape ;)

  69. Sonia Bracegirdle

    I might be a little late to the party…but this weekend saw some solid hours on the turbo. Yay!

  70. Kevp

    Run, or a long bike ride. Weather dependant decision. Worst case, ride the trainer.

  71. Piotr K

    Group ride with strong guys. It was very hard time in the saddle. :)

  72. Matt Barrett

    Parkrun followed by a Les Mills Sprint class

  73. Michiel

    Eat, sleep, bike, repeat…

  74. Philipp

    I spent the weekend doing a nice 15km run on Sunday morning and going for a nice walk in the sun afterwards, ice cream included ;)

  75. Conor Duffy

    Enduro MTB racing on Sieve Donard, the highest mountain in Northern Ireland.

  76. luca

    caving activity in “Buso della Rana” , Monte di Malo :-)

  77. Bas van de Kant

    Start again with running after an injury. So easy start with run walk run.

  78. Fab

    Hi Ray,

    This weekend I raced the Paris / Saint Germain en Laye “La Course”
    Great course, great weather, -> good day ;-)

    Have a nice week,
    Fabrice

  79. Hobe

    Who’s up for some more laps around the FOB? What do you want to do? I dunno, laps around the FOB? Great idea! We could get on a spin bike in the fitness tent, or more laps around the FOB. (Deployment Sucks)

  80. Pieter

    Testing nu wetsuit and sailing with the family

  81. Steve

    Running a easy 16k on one of the first nice summer days.

  82. Ralf

    Great weather here. So cycling every day.

  83. Racing the Full distance Slateman in Llanberis, cold swim (12 degrees), tough bike course (4.8km climb right out of transition) and a fell run to finish up!! Everyone should give it a go. Absolutely fantastic fun!

  84. Marcello Sandri

    Hard times here, endurance pizza eating for my birthday :)

  85. Sonia Worsley

    First ride back on the bike after a crash 7 weeks ago. It will be interesting.

  86. Marcin

    Training hard for a HM – a 20k long run on Sunday morning was my main goal… and then barbecue in the afternoon :)

  87. Julien van der Pluym

    Saturday I did a awesome 5h30 Mountain Bile training ride as we are training for the Transbaviaans MTB 230 KM 1 day MTB race.
    Sunday we did a 3 hour mtb recovery ride with a brick run straight after.
    Was a great weekend’s training.

  88. Sean Mackin

    Squeezing three mid distance runs in between adventures out and about with my five year old and buying baby stuff for the impending second!

  89. Martin Smith

    Starting to walk around the house again after knee surgery last week…..soon be back to some running :-)

  90. giovanni

    run 12 km yesterday in the morning, and then went hiking with my daughter in her baby carrier..

  91. Kristaps

    Will have a blast at xc race as im coming into form for the season!

  92. Anne V

    Going for new PB at Parkrun (got 29:52, sub 30!) Plus watching daughter’s Jujitsu competition on Saturday.
    Ten mile walk to raise awareness for motor neurone disease on Sunday, plus son’s 18th birthday and running open mic.

  93. Luisito Guanlao

    Pre training for marathon training for Oct Birmingham marathon. Walked over 10K.

  94. Elise

    For once no cycling for me – visited Paris with friends and walked all the streets and queued all the queues (the latter actually feeling more strenuous than interval training).

  95. Javi

    Three rides with one brick run

  96. Tautvydas

    Unexpected run in sun.

  97. Robert

    A nice Zwift-workout in the Basement : )

  98. Carsten

    Run 24k on Saturday.

  99. Chris de Bree

    I went down to the coast of south africa for a canoeing competition :)

  100. Gunthar

    Some trail riding around the city and late night 1st XCO race!!!