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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.
great post hope to see you around the nations tri on Sunday
good luck
Ha! And here I thought I was the only one who had crazy little rules about commenting! If you are ever inclined to figure out my pattern, I’ll give you a hint: this comment half breaks my rules…
Ray, Congratulations on getting one year under your belt. My bike blog will be turning one in the next week or so as well. Time flies.
yeah!! i’m “met”!
Congratulations and enjoy you cupcake. I will be looking forward to reading your stuff going forward.
Happy One Year O Blog Aversary :) It was nice bumping into last year even though we both had no idea who each other was at that time. Enjoy your cupcake :)
It’s only been one year?? Seems like you’ve been around much longer.
You’ve become one of my favorite reads in a fairly short period of time. Keep up the great work – and hopefully we can share another DC run sometime.
Your blogs kick ass and your cup cake looks like a pile of pooh. Although delightful pooh :)
First off, I feel honored that I got a comment if you don’t comment often. It was probably just because I talked about my ass, and you wanted to too. :) I figured I should send you a note since I randomly read your blog. My personal favorites are the cooking posts – if you ever feel the need to cook for someone else, send me a message.
I remember reading a post at one point that you wanted to get into aviation. I fly every now and then… if I ever get my medicals renewed, I’ll take you up.
Congrats on the 1 year blogaversary. You’ve come a very long way over the course of a year.
Great post! I find your blogs really informative and I love your that you’re a gadget guru.
Although, your recent post on the trainer in front of the plasma TV, with the smaller, yet useful screen/monitor by its side, your two Garmin gadgets you brought on your run and the in-water camera for swimming left me feeling a wee bit inadequate and oh so envious! So I figure you’re the perfect person to ask…what are your thoughts on Garmin 405 they released, thinking of upgrading your 305? The smaller more compact watch is much more appealing to me, especially since I usually wear mine at the gym and the 405 is so big and bulky.
I bought the Suunto T3 several months ago and am not too happy with it. So I’m looking for a replacement.
From Monica:
“So I figure you’re the perfect person to ask…what are your thoughts on Garmin 405 they released, thinking of upgrading your 305?”
I got the watch within about two days of it coming out back in April. And thus far… it drives me crazy. Very difficult to use compared to the 305. I’ve been slow to write a review because I just can’t get ‘into it’ from a enjoyment perspective. I’m hoping now that running will ramp up for marathon season I’ll have time to try and figure it out more.
aw congratulations! you got me thinking about my comment rules. one of them is to READ THE ENTIRE POST before commenting. i guess i do have a few others too.
a friend of mine described a phenom known as tribes….different bloggers attract certain people and then we tend to morph into loosely associated tribes…sometimes with a tribal leader.
it sorta works.
i’m scared about the potomac, p.s.
Happy Anniversary!
Glad to know I’m not the only one who spends lots of time blogging (writing and reading :-)
Happy Blog-o-versary!!!
Happy Birthday. I guess the training wheels can come off now!
I am with you on the post taking an hour+, pictures video and the like all add extra time and then there’s the ten times I go back in to correct a typo! Do you find live writer easier than Blogger, I type mine in Outlook and just save it from there for copy’n’paste.
I would say you writing style is pretty on point though don’t be too hard on yourself.
Good obseravtion about the comment rules…yes I think we all have them and like you 305 review my shoe reviews get a lot of traffic
Happy CupCake day again.
What a thought provoking blog post about posting blogs.
It’s the inbetween, varied posts that make reading interesting! Happy 1st blogging anniversary You do a great job with your choice of topics!
Congrats on the anniversary and your awesome finish at Nation’s! I hope you loved Lavender Moon as much as I did :)
I love this post. It just speaks to so much of what this is all about and the cool people that we meet who later find our blog or vice versa (and btw I will be HIGHLY offended if you make it out this way and we don’t meet in person!). And the commenting thing. I’d say about 30% of people find my blog looking for info about the Brooks Adrenaline GTS 8. All because of one post!
Anyway, it’s kind of neat to look back on how our blogs change over time, too. I realized with your post that I’ve been blogging for 3.5 years now! Crazy! And, my style and nature of posts have changed quite a bit. Kind of fun – like looking through an old photo album or something.
This comment is all over the place. I’m curious what you meant by ‘grouping comments into a couple diff categories.’ And where does this kind of comment fit in, hmm? :)
Anyway, great post!