The Day in May DCR $500 Gadget Giveaway!

Garmin-FR935-Constant-HR_thumb

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.

FOUND THIS POST USEFUL? SUPPORT THE SITE!

Hopefully, you found this post useful. The website is really a labor of love, so please consider becoming a DC RAINMAKER Supporter. This gets you an ad-free experience, and access to our (mostly) bi-monthly behind-the-scenes video series of “Shed Talkin’”.

Support DCRainMaker - Shop on Amazon

Otherwise, perhaps consider using the below link if shopping on Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, but your purchases help support this website a lot. It could simply be buying toilet paper, or this pizza oven we use and love.

Tags:

7,467 Comments

  1. Daniel

    100 mile century road ride in the mountains.

  2. Jörn

    a fast bikeride followed by a short run followed by a dash into the kitchen to cook for the Kids….

  3. Guy C

    Rode Little Lumpy in the sunshine (100 miles and 2,300 m vert) now shattered!

  4. Mike

    I’ll be tending to my ant farm all weekend.

  5. Brian

    My adventure last weekend was the Chattanooga 70.3. This weekend will be a relaxing nothing.

  6. I ran a nice hilly 16 mile trail race Saturday. This weekend is more training.

  7. Rafael Morais

    Rain rain go away! Chasing my son was my sport.

  8. Jakubator

    Hilly Run + Long run

    Please make my day and runs better! :)

  9. Kim

    Road bike 40 miles in prep for June GOBA

  10. Ioannis garoufas

    I am participating metsovo marathon in greece next weekend.44k of trail

  11. Keren Miers

    Swam/ran/biked.Just another weekend in paradise. Or Tokyo.

  12. Matt Kofahl

    I ran the Sehgahunda trail marathon this past weekend.

  13. Eric R

    I had a strong race at the St. Louis Triathlon this past weekend! Ramping up for Ironman 70.3 Wisconsin.

  14. Antonis

    I am going to ride 100 km athens riviera

  15. Tony K

    I went for a swim on friday, and a quick run on sunday.

  16. Amy Nickolas

    I got some trail runs in this weekend; hoping for more beautiful weather this weekend.

  17. Anna

    I went for a swim small swim in the danube. the day after i got sick .

  18. Patrick

    Run/Bike Brick: 8km Run and 1h hilly Bike :-)

  19. Aaron

    Riding as much as I can until the rain hits for the week

  20. Helena

    I’m hoping to do a long skate this weekend!

  21. TD

    Training kick off for a fall marathon

  22. Dax

    Did an interval track workout with the daughter this weekend

  23. J. Gramm

    Oh that one is simple – I will attempt to finish designing a 10k trail run course nearby and put an end to running into all those dead ends I keep backtracking from.

  24. Mountain orienteering race “Jaszczur” (“Lizard”), 12h adventure including 3 special stages in caves :)

  25. steve

    For this weekend, I am trying to start rebuilding distance after an injury!

  26. Rolf Basse

    a lot of nice bike tours at the black forrest

  27. Pete R.

    Back on the trainer because of the relentless rain.

  28. Joe

    Yesterday i did a bike ride in the morning followed by a run in the evening gearing up for a TRI

  29. Seth udlis

    Plan to do a 12 hour run

  30. Justin Hartley

    parkrun on Saturday and riding on Sunday (both likely in the rain!)

  31. John

    Did a little running and Zwift while watching my teammates post updates about their races.

  32. jonathan

    This past weekend I took my kids on a few bike rides. Towing two kids and a bunch of picnic gear is the perfect way to recover from a long trail race.
    This coming weekend I’ll be squeezing in my first semi-long run between in-laws visiting and friends getting married! Also, might try a new trail with my cross bike!

  33. Cohen Ayala

    A modest swim at Friday, nice bike ride at Satursay and… hopefully and finaly… going back to the best thing – RUN , after plantar faciatiis has gone for hell.

  34. Jiri

    Ooh I’m going to the boxing lesson with a 150cm Roma guy from Prague’s streets that will beat the shit out of me.

  35. Heather Riley

    I am gonna be starting training for a couple 5Ks this July!

  36. HK

    spring triathlon, 1st of the season

  37. Simon

    Crosscountry skiing in the sun :)

  38. Ruben Lightfoot

    This weekend I will be running a half-marathon distance training run in preparation for a trail marathon race I’m running in a couple of weeks.

    My run on Saturday will mark day 118 of an “every day run” streak that I started at the end of January. I’m now over 500 miles for the year.

    Phew.

  39. Steve De Doncker

    Did Ironman Lanzarote this weekend and got a nasty sunburn ?

  40. Linda LaMattino-palmer

    I ran 5 miles with my two aussies yesterday. Want a more accurate heart rate monitor for those stretches where we actually run fast.

  41. Christi

    Went to a spin class and for a run to enjoy the beautiful weather!

  42. Trent Ross

    Training for Mont Tremblant Ironman

  43. Jon Nall

    Some gorgeous views while running in the NC mountains while there for a friend’s wedding!

  44. Eirik Eikeberg

    I`ve trained hard with the AG triathlon team of Norway :-)

  45. Naveen

    I worked out twice using the StrongLifts 5×5 program and ran by the lake in Chicago.

  46. Thomas Gibson

    Heading to Hong Kong with work for a week, going to do some running in the hot humid weather

  47. Tom

    Lots of swimming!

  48. Thomas Gibson

    Heading to Hong Kong with work for a week, going to do some running in the heat

  49. John

    Does a bike ride on the beach while on vacation count?

  50. Duane Hastings

    Long brick ride and run on Saturday. Long run on Sunday plus a family fun run later in the day.

  51. Leonor Rodrigues

    After an intense handball season first weekend without a game.

  52. Michael Harman

    This weekend was an organized ride called the Strawberry ride in St. Jacob, IL. If you register for the ride, afterwards you got a thing of strawberry shortcake… it was delicious.

  53. Francesco

    I’m planning a nice and easy run in beautiful Oslo, Norway.

  54. Volker

    Triathlete since 1985 – becoming slower and slower

  55. Chmou

    I have been doing quite a bit of cycling to go to Evreux from Paris and ran the 10km du grand Paris on sunday, I had as well a 24h running challenge with an adidas runners team in Paris, so yeah that was quite a handful weekend,

  56. Jason Titus

    I’m hoping for a long run and a long ride… both outside, weather permitting.

  57. Martin Perry

    just family sports time, playing tennis, football and rounders with the kids :)

  58. Dan Sixbury

    I plan on walking to keep some activity level while under going cancer treatment I would love to get the upgraded fenix for when I go back to triathlon and marathon training.

  59. Loai Alsalti

    This weekend was my rest weekend after running close to 20 mile run last week.

  60. Brad Loescher

    Sesame Place 5K

  61. chad williamson

    finishing up training for an upcoming triathlon

  62. Alex H

    Upping my mileage in preperation for training for race season. Copenhagen half beckons…

  63. Aaron Locke

    Perth HBF run for a reasom

  64. Robert D

    Ran a relay at the 220K Ultrabalaton in Hungary and came in at third position among the 4 person relay teams!

  65. Brian Huskey

    Just putting in miles running. Unless you count mowing the yard, too.

  66. teodor ciontu

    Regular interval training for a summer full of adventures.

  67. Joe

    Planned for a 10mi run. But in reality? Not so much!

  68. Phil

    No training for me, relaxing weekend and I did a Boogie Woogie Dance Competition :)

  69. Pablo

    The usual runs with the club, No races for a few months

  70. Jeff Gillen

    Just some training runs in San Diego while meeting up with my daughter for the long weekend.

  71. StephenA

    On-call so just managed to do the local Parkrun

  72. Ross

    100 mile ride and 20 mile run, between two storm systems.

  73. Jeff Collins

    Family camping trip with a great hike in a river gorge.

  74. Tom Coussement

    Went mountainbiking on sunday.

  75. Fredrik

    Rest weekend with friends in Helsinki :)

  76. Fabrizio

    I’ll be riding with some friends on Thursday (being a national holiday in Germany) to comply to the tradition of Father’s Day. Means that there will be beer involved, too.

  77. Chad

    Long run on some new trails and recovery. Fun stuff!

  78. Mel Harbour

    Probably indoor turbo training. Might go for first run in a while.

  79. Leslie

    An easy run after a race last weekend.

  80. badbob

    Belgian Waffle ride. “Hell of the North County”

  81. Xavier Orpella

    Run and bike a wonderful mountain rural road

  82. Adam

    Looks like a long steady run and a long endurance ride indoors, if the storms forecasted are correct

  83. Brandon L

    A short ride on Saturday, then trekking my kid’s cello to and from the Red’s game on Sunday ;-)

  84. Erkan

    Started with a long Friday, crossfit in the morning, 2k swim at lunch time and a 10k before dinner.

    Sat was the bike day with a 60k ride followed by a 2k transition run.

    Sun was the open water swim day with a lot of practices with the group followed by a short swim.

    Amazing weather in BC, Canada this weekend.

  85. Scott Shell

    I did a 62 mile bike ride with a bit of excitement around mile 50… along with a 2 mile run after.

    link to youtu.be

  86. Larry M

    I’m taking my family out of town to New Braunfels for the memorial Day weekend, so will have to sneak in some early morning runs while we’re away.

  87. Hey I’ll be training for the Cairns 70.3 Half Ironman. I’d like to get a better GPS watch than Abdiel Wilson David. His one can do HR and GPS and VO2. Probably even TOAST. So $500 will hopefully see me get something sweet. Maybe someone reading this gets generous and decides to donate a watch better than a Garmin 920XT. Then my accountant buddy Warren Elliott will be envious of me instead of paying out my old bike, running shoes, GPS watch ⌚️, tshirts, socks.

  88. kasrhp

    Ray, love the site and your work. Keep up the great job!

  89. Eddie Mehl

    I’ll be continuing my training for my first half-marathon in August (weight training and running), and on Saturday I’ll be racing my sprint car at my local dirt track (weather permitting.)

    I know a lot of people don’t consider racing to be an athletic endeavor (they’re wrong :)) but the endurance I’ve built through running helps a lot in the car, and mental stamina I’ve developed in racing helps with my training.

  90. Jon

    Paddle board Apache Lake

  91. Matthew Harris

    Tilling our yard by hand…..cross-training

  92. JP Miller

    The weekend just past I tried to race a marathon on 3 weeks rest. Not ready.

    This coming weekend I am planning to take it easy and spend time with family and friends, maybe doing some trail running.

  93. Matt

    Road my first century this weekend!

  94. Andrew

    Just did a few recovery runs this weekend (ran a marathon a few weeks ago). Looking to start my next training cycle soon though!

  95. Kyle Dostart

    Going on a three day backpacking trip in Banff.

  96. Jon

    a couple of rides

  97. Kory

    Playing some ice hockey in between runs

  98. Nic

    Nice run-bike and some rock climbing ! :)

  99. Marcin

    Triathlon :D my race of the year

  100. AD

    Rock climbing!