Heads up! Here’s your massive list of sports tech deals! This includes the Garmin Forerunner 965 for just $499, Garmin Epix for $449, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 Black Titanium for $735, the GoPro Hero 12 Black for $299, and plenty more! Go check out the full list here!
I’m DC RAINMAKER…
Here’s how to save!
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5 Easy Steps To The Site
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In Depth Product Reviews
You probably stumbled upon here looking for a review of a sports gadget. If you’re trying to decide which unit to buy – check out my in-depth reviews section. Some reviews are over 60 pages long when printed out, with hundreds of photos! I aim to leave no stone unturned.
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Read My Sports Gadget Recommendations.
Here’s my most recent GPS watch guide here, and cycling GPS computers here. Plus there are smart trainers here, all in these guides cover almost every category of sports gadgets out there. Looking for the equipment I use day-to-day? I also just put together my complete ‘Gear I Use’ equipment list, from swim to bike to run and everything in between (plus a few extra things). And to compliment that, here’s The Girl’s (my wife’s) list. Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by!
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Have some fun in the travel section.
I travel a fair bit, both for work and for fun. Here’s a bunch of random trip reports and daily trip-logs that I’ve put together and posted. I’ve sorted it all by world geography, in an attempt to make it easy to figure out where I’ve been.
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My Photography Gear: The Cameras/Drones/Action Cams I Use Daily
The most common question I receive outside of the “what’s the best GPS watch for me” variant, are photography-esq based. So in efforts to combat the amount of emails I need to sort through on a daily basis, I’ve complied this “My Photography Gear” post for your curious minds (including drones & action cams!)! It’s a nice break from the day-to-day sports-tech talk, and I hope you get something out of it!
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The Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List
Many readers stumble into my website in search of information on the latest and greatest sports tech products. But at the end of the day, you might just be wondering “What does Ray use when not testing new products?”. So here is the most up to date list of products I like and fit the bill for me and my training needs best! DC Rainmaker 2023 swim, bike, run, and general gear list. But wait, are you a female and feel like these things might not apply to you? If that’s the case (but certainly not saying my choices aren’t good for women), and you just want to see a different gear junkies “picks”, check out The Girl’s Gear Guide too.
I did not win!!!!!
Congrats everyone, and booooo for me! :)
It was funny!
:( puffff, then next year. Congrats to all winners :)
Congratz to all winners!
Congrats winners! Thanks Ray and Clever Training even though I missed out…
Thanks for all that you do, Ray! Once again your giveaway was a fun time.
Good times! Thanks Ray
Thanks to Ray and Clever Training! Was a fun day although I, like just about everyone else, didn’t win. Now the hardest part will be convincing my “The Girl” that I still need several of these items. I believe my odds were better in this extravaganza!!
Just curious, do you know how many people entered in all 12 giveaways?
Good question. I don’t though (nor am I entirely sure how to easily get that out of wordpress). Sorry!
Do you verify unique I.P addresses or can 1 person create multiple emails from 1 computer?
mysql query directly on the database? on the wp_comments table filter by date and the right post_id ?
Probably could. But I actually leave that fully to the hosting dev team. We have an agreement: I don’t mess with their stuff, and I let them do their job.
Having worked extensively with service providers in my previous life on the other side of the coin – I find it works better that way. :)
A unique IP isn’t a decider, since you could have husband/wife. But it’s something that’s taken into account that increases chance of being flagged for me to manually review by the duplicate/etc scripts
If you can get their emails for all the different giveaways, simply filter in excel by highlighting duplicates, then erasing those records via filter. You’ll be left with unique #’s.
One day I’ll be a winner and get sprinkles.
Congratulations to all the winners and kudos to Ray and everybody giving away free stuff! (and a pretty killer blog)!
Dammit no win for me. Maybe next time :-). Thanks anyway Ray and keep up the good work on the site
Oh well, maybe next time.
Congrats to all the lucky winners and thanks to DC Rainmaker for organizing such fantastic prizes.
Thanks again for your blog !!
You made a mistake on giveaway #12…my name isn’t listed, as it should be. :-)
Congrats to all who won, it was fun.
Congrats to the winners, it was fun playing along
I didn’t win either, but thats for keeping the dream alive!
Congratulations to all the winners.
Congrats all! Now get out there and do epic things with what you’ve won!
Awesome, thank you Ray.
No ticket for me :-(
Still my favourite site for reviews.
Many thanks Ray.
OMG! Can’t believe it. I’ve been taking part in those giveaways for so long and finally got a lucky break!
Thanks Ray.
Boom, congrats!
Thanks for doing this! Congratulations to the winners!
I managed to enter all the 12 competitions (who was with me?) , but no luck (so far)…! Thanks anyway Ray for this great opportunity & all your work and congratulations to the winners!
11 for me, I missed the first one (6 am – 8 am here) but got all the others! No win though, congrats to all the winners!
congrats to all of you, and thanks to Ray for the event! I’ll go and cry for a bit now.
Even the thought of winning something was nice already, thanks for organizing!
WOW THANKS Ray!! Would never have thought I’d win!! I am still sporting a Forerunner 405 from 2008 so this is a BIG win for me :) :)
Awesome – congrats!
Awesome DC, you’re the man :-)
Congrats, all!
Ray – this is a lot of work and expense. Thank you for doing this!!
Don in Baltimore
Congrats to winners! I, myself, am not destined to win until The Girl puts a cake up for grabs.
Thanks for doing this once again, Ray!
I gave up sleep for this? Worth it!! :-) (at least it wasn’t a power meter when I woke up early… I don’t even get the purpose, so didn’t enter those.)
Well done to all winners.
And a HUGE THANK YOU to Ray for the donating the prizes!! Fair play Ray ;)!
Thanks
Roy
Well done winners, keep up the good work DC!
Congrats to all those lucky. And for all those unlucky better luck next time like me. Now happy sporting to all. Thanks ray
Congratulations to the winners! My whole family of runners and cyclists were giving this giveaway a go. There’s always next year. Thank you, Ray and Clever Training for the opportunity to win cool gear.
thanks for all the goodness. giveaway = fun
Thank you Ray and Clever Training! I’m stoked and congratulations to all the winners.
I read my prize wrong, I thought I had won the Virb. Only just realised it is the future prize. Absolutely buzzing DC :-)
Maybe next time. Thanks Ray. Your site is the first place I go, to research training gear.
Congrats to the winners, and thanks again, Ray, for doing this!
Thanks for hosting the giveaway! I didn’t win, but it was fun to see all the loot going out the door!
thanks a lot Ray & CT, and huge congrats to all winners! I have been entering these giveaways for three or four years, and never get lucky… will keep on knockin’!!
Congrats to all the winners. And once again thank you Ray and Clever Training for doing this.
Wow! Congrats to all the winners and thanks for hosting another awesome giveaway dcrainmaker!
Would have loved to have won a power meter…. but ordered an Assioma today anyway (with DCR discount of course) ;-)
Very cool. Thanks, Ray and Clever Training!
I’m slowly starting to get a little miffed. I know there is a lot of data to mine through, but this is about the 6th time I have come back to visit this list and the obvious error of my name not being on it has yet to be corrected. I would appreciate this being rectified forthwith.
:-)
Congrats winnerz. Thanks Ray
One day, Ray… one day I’ll walk with of the prizes!
Thanks for another giveaway Ray! Sad I missed out on the F5 and P1 ones – damn you, stupid phone alarm (or the person that set it, possibly…. )!!
Great fun although not won. Thanks!
Wow! I can’t believe I got picked this time! Thank you so much!
And congrats to all winners!
I don’t believe it, I didn’t win! How could this happen?!
Thank you, hope all the winners enjoy their prizes.
There should be at least 6,376 thanks for the work and chance at free electronics posted here. Or whatever the total unique entrants is.
Not asking for more work from you but if someone digs into the data, how many people entered every giveaway? Did any of the winners only enter one?
I haven’t done the filters to see exact total uniques. Total unique visitors to the site that day was about 169,000 – but of course some of that is just regular traffic. My guess for unique entrants would be about 20-30K.
Congrats to all the winners! Hopefully next year I’m a bit more successful :/
Thanks Ray and Clever Training. 11/12 entered and 1 nights lost sleep but still worth it.
Congrats to everyone who won. Thanks a bunch Ray for doing this again.
Well, not time time, but it was lots of fun anyway…congrats to all the winners and thanks very much Ray and Clever Training for doing this for us. Cheers!
In only one of the 8 attempts I was “close” to the winner. Definitely Iottery is not for me.
Ray,
Thanks for hosting and sponsoring for this,
Together with Clever off course.
This time I was pumped to participate, and all the products resonated.
Although I didn’t win, its quite obvious you created a lot of traffic.
Thanks and have a good weekend with the Girl and the Peanut.
Cheers,
Ken
Congrats to winners
Thanks to Ray
Wait till next time for me…
:)
Well done peeps, and nice one Ray
Ray, that made for an exciting day, thanks for the give away. Congrats to the winners, enjoy the spoils.
congrats to the winners & thx Ray for giving away awesome tech stuff!
Ray, I didn’t win. There MUST be something wrong with your random nr picker. :-). Nah seriously, thanks for giving us al 12 chances to win a nice goodie. Cheers and keep up the great review work!
No luck but thank you for keeping organising this Ray.
Congrats to winners, it was fun :)
Stay awesome!
Thank you Ray and Clever Training for doing this. Hopefully again next year. Congrats to all the winners
Stefan
Damn! usually i am lucky other places (casino or raffles). I will try my luck next time.
thanks Ray for all the work you do.
Thanks, Ray. Someday I’ll win. ;)
No luck for me this time. Well just have to wait another 363 days for the next extravaganza. Well done to all the winners.
Thank you DC! Fingers crossed for next year. :)
Ah well, maybe next time!
Congrats to the winners and thanks Ray.
Looking forward to my legacy slot next year :)
Congrats to all winners and thank you Ray for giving us the opportunity! Looking forward to the next giveaway!
Congrats to the lucky ones!
Thanks for making a late night at work a fun one!
Thanks Ray for making this extreme giveaway with such nice items and getting the result so quickly. You probably did not sleep much in those two days.
Wow….nice, finally win in an online draw…Thanks for the fabulous prizes
Just waiting for the follow-up email now.
Yup! They should all be coming out in the next couple hours.
I’ll post here once all e-mails have been sent.
And with that – all winners should have received e-mails from me. If not, double-check your Spam/Junk/Clutter/etc… and failing that post a note here and I’ll reply back directly to that. Sometimes my congrats e-mails end up looking like Nigerian lottery winner e-mails.
No consolation prize for one who has entered all 12 competitions? ;-)
Well, next year will be my year! (Or I’ll just reward myself after I finished my 1st marathon which is my next target!
Missed it only be a week :) Congrats to winners and huge props to Ray and Clever Training!!