This could alternatively be titled – ‘Pre-Sea Otter Cycling Event $500 Gadget Giveaway!’ Or, it could be titled ‘Crap, I meant to post this on Friday and therefore this is your consolation prize for it being a Monday…nobody likes Mondays.
Except, the second one is too long for the title. And the first one is confusing for those that don’t know what Sea Otter is. Thankfully, everyone knows what April is, so we’ll just go with it.
So here’s the deal – this giveaway gets you $500 worth of gadget goodness from Clever Training, my always excellent partner in this giveaway crime. And they’ll even let you wait till the end of the month to take advantage of any upcoming new devices in the next week or so (such as those announced this week at Sea Otter). It’s like having stock market options, without any real downside.
How to enter:
Simply leave a short description of an athletic adventure from this weekend. If you did a ‘recovery’ weekend…then…well…think of something vaguely athleticish.
The reason you need a short description of ‘why’ is that if you just put a single word (e.g. run), you’ll likely get caught up in my SPAM filters. And nobody wants to be sandwiched between two pieces of stale SPAM. Got all that?
By supporting the site through Clever Training you also can save 10% on almost anything they sell (or get points instead). If you win, you can use that credit for anything from the GoPro Hero6 Black, to a Suunto Spartan Ultra, to a random pair of socks, to the Garmin Vector 3 power meter, or heck, even towards a new trainer. Whatever floats your boat (note: they don’t sell kayaks). Also note, your credit is in US dollars, not some other funky Canadian currency or something – otherwise you’d get less. Nobody wants less.
Good luck!
The giveaway entry period will run through Thursday, April 19th, 2018 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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Saturday was club ride turned surprise first long ride of the year (85 miles and 5,700 feet of climbing) and Sunday was recovery.
Did I do a recovery swim? Can’t remember
I ran myself ragged chasing after my kids this weekend.
Finding some new roads to ride while in Dallas/Fort Worth area…
Getting back on the horse to some 5ks
I got to athletically adventure into my basement for Stage 5 of the Tour of Watopia. The Three Sisters kicked my butt.
Got absolutely soaked riding to see the cherry blossoms and tulips at the Tidal Basin. Got more of a workout trying to keep warm in the cold, windy rain.
I PR’ed the zwift epic kom.
Shoveled 3″ of heavy,heavy wet sleet/snow on April 15th in Michigan!
I rode Zwift on my Computrainer for a couple of hours each day because the weather in the Northeast US has been horrendous, and iv only ben able to get outside once this season.
Long hill climb with great downhill after.
Running and enjoying the weather
Ran a fast 7miler during a very nicely cool mornung!
A couple hours of zwift will be calling my name
#paddlepeddlecrawl Ironman 70.3 Liuzhou China. Brutal swim but very fast bike and run course.
Rode 5 days in a row! Mtb, cross, road, cross, cross.
#notallmondaysarebad
No sporting activities due to freezing rain and a banged-up knee. Being responsible sure feels terrible.
I ran the BAA 5k in Boston, which takes you through the Boston Marathon finish line!
I braved the 1 mile drive to the gym despite the frozen streets to lift weights. Not really that big of an adventure, but for mid-April in the Midwest … please let the snow stop!
Was limited to a 5k rehab run through the Australian bush on a 30 degree Celsius “Autumn” day. While not fast or particularly pleasant it was good to be outside and running.
Epic interval sets on Ergvideo
Did an 8k that went over a bridge on a freeway and then finished up with a beer fest. It is Portland after all.
Did my last long run before my first 70.3.
This weekend it snowed 15″+ in MN, so I ran on the treadmill…5 mi of fun while watching part of “Icarus” on Saturday and 15 mi of slog while binging on “Parenthood” on Sunday.
going for a climb up mount donna buang
Did a couple of easy rides this weekend. Hopefully, spring will stay sprung around here!
3 X 20 minutes at 85% FTP. After fracturing my pelvis in 3 places last year, it is good to be able to get back to solid efforts. The hard part is re-learning the mental focus.
This weekend had a Recovery massage.
Boston Marathon!
Did shots with my daughter and wife at a graduation party. That probably does not count, so I also rode on Zwift Saturday and Sunday.
training for M2B in Ojai. Run, Ride and lots o’ long walks.
I raced the first road race of the year and managed to get dropped on the first climb.
I walked all around downtown in search for a new apartment. Bleh!
Scary Slick Sunday yep that was my 10 mile bike ride Started out sunny turned to a monsoon.
Trainer rides on my Wahoo Kickr 2 plus running with my 11 y/o daugther.
I did an 8 mi trail run on Saturday then yoga and 3 miler easy run on Sunday.
Long run on treadmill :(
I walked 7 miles for a racery event. Then we were only 200 miles from finishing so I walked .5 miles to “drop” and repeated it 5 more times! The sunburn and blister were worth it!
Upper body workout by chopping 1/2 cord of firewood followed by a lower body set mountain biking 2000 vertical feet.
Enjoyed the lovely spring rain both days running… ?
Recovering from a dinus infection so i had a multiple marathon maps saturday. But i did recover enough to mow the yard sunday. Whoopee.
Snowshoe hike. In April. In 2 feet of snow. I have pics.
Weekend, Taekwondo training in dojang like usual
Crammed in 96 miles of cycling over the only two warm days in April
Great 32 mile training ride for the Trek Across Maine with the Sebago Brewing Team.
90 min ride on Saturday and 9 miles on the TM on Sunday. Nothing exciting
Installed (and then tested for a 40 minute trainer ride *thanks April snowstorm*) my new between-the-arms bottle on my bike.
Finally got back to some measure of a training routine with a couple of solid runs and a some quality trainer time.
Just a slow 5K recovery run this weekend.
Whenever the weather gets naughty; its time for jumping on the trainer. Logged in few ten miles; and unlocked the level 10 in zwift!
Riding the trainer as short on time and high on fun.
I was doing an intensive 25 min climb in a longer bike ride
Got on bike. Rode bike. Got off bike. Repeat as necessary to complete route.
Didn’t get to ride, moved furniture instead.
Dug out from the snowstorm in Wisconsin.
rode 30Miles on MTB
Super slow 10km “long run”. Ah well, you’ve got to start somewhere after a long off season.
big gravel ride in the hills
Swim classes because I sink… a lot
Friday night swim date with the hubs, then a 12 mile/2 mile brick on Saturday. Gotta get it in while the sun shines!
Muddy trail run the day before the ice storm in Ontario Canada.
Taking care of my 5 month old is surely an athletic adventure, right?!
Helped the little one in our house go up and then down the water slide about 100 times this weekend.
Doing walking hill repeats with my Dad who is recovering from surgery.
Monument ave 10K 23,000 runners!
Played disk golf as I rest up from tri training injuries. Well I thought about it anyway. It was tax weekend and I got a real bad shock and could do with a give-away.
Crappy weather here in Illinois, so I ran a 10K in my basement on my Zero Runner
Indoor 10 mile power trainer ride – seriously, it was raining cats and dogs outside.
My local bike shop installed a new Stages Dual DuraAce Power Meter on Saturday. I didn’t get to ride my new Trek Emonda then but I did ride indoors on an older Specialized Roubaix with Stages Gen 1 for cadence with my Wahoo KickR 2017. Love the technology and Ray’s reviews!
1st trail run in 2018, 9 miles in cold rainy weather
Training for my first triathlon so Saturday I did a bike/swim and then a bike/run workout on Sunday.
Due to record snowfall I was lucky enough to cross country ski around my neighborhood both Saturday & Sunday!
8 miles around the national mall on a beautiful Saturday.
Sat around with my feet up recovering from a hard workout on Friday.
Beach running beside the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games Marathon Athletes! Awesome to watch these runners do their thing!! I’m still calling my session hard core – no aid stations for me, and I was wearing flip flops!
A nice rail trail bike ride w my family
I crashed while on a training ride going down at 40mph descend. I broke my AC ligament and will go for a surgery on Wednesay. But I am very
Optimistic that I am going back from this stronger.
running to catch a plane to visit family. And a marathon of chasing little kids around the playground
I rode in a cancer fundraiser called “Monkey Knife Fight.” It was maybe the hardest ride I’ve ever done. 68 miles, 6300 feet of elevation. All the big climbs were mostly gravel and ridiculously steep. But the beer was cold afterwards and the event raised over $20,000 for cancer so it was a success all around.
1 h 20 minutes of stairs, up and down. legs know it
Does running from one kid activity to another count?
9 mile tempo run in the rain!!
I did a training ride with a friend!
Knocked out by an injury. Just trying to rest and recover.
A last run around the neighbour I’ve been staying in, and learned to swim(ish).
Had a indoor pool (25m) meet this weekend, lowered all my previous times by a second or two.
Saturday, beautiful, training ride for WOW Cyclothon race around Iceland.
Spending quality time indoor while trapped by the monster ice storm in Ontario.
40 mile hilly bike ride
Took three of my four kids on a bit of an adventure on my family bike: a terrible upright hybrid bike, but it has a baby seat on the rear rack, and I have a double bob trailer that I pull. I just need to get one of those front seat kid bikes when the youngest gets big enough and I’ll haul all four places. It’s really freaking hard going up hills on that thing with 130 lbs of kids and another 15 to 20 lbs of bike trailer and baby seat.
Hits Half in Napa Valley. My B race leading up to Ironman Santa Rosa.
Did the final prep ride for my up comming cross-triathlon. Slashed my tyre on a rock :(
Went for a beautiful ride on Skyline Drive!
Gentle 5km to ease back into it after couple of hospital visits recently.
There was an ice storm (there’s the adventure), so I went to a spin class (and then the fitness-y part).
118 km bike ride, trying to dodge the showers !
1 hour run in the snow and rain.
This weekend I did some strength training in the form of carrying 12 ft 2×10 for fixing the floor of my new house.
Slow weekend prepping for River to River Relay inSouthern Illinois
packed my ride kit on Friday night – ughhh rain and wind saturday and sunday – ugh