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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.
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ray – your saturday post is my favorite post of every week – i like to see all the cool stuff that you found around the web – saves me time!
Hello Ray, long time reader, first time replyer. Love your blog and wahoo on the 910xt news. Please keep up the great work and welcome home.
any comment on the new Magellan GPS watches announced this week?
Yea! about the 910xt! Good to get an update on that.
Here’s hoping my 910xt order @ REI will be fulfilled soon. I’d really like to try out those swim metrics.
Thanks Anon – glad you enjoy it!
Hi SpeedoStache-
Yup, it’s cool stuff. I’ve been talking with those guys for well over a year now about it, they’ve been great about incorporating much of the feedback I hear from you.
I’ll be sitting down with them in Vegas in a few days at CES with more details, and a device shortly thereafter.
Thanks all!
Sneaky nugget!
thanks for the update Ray! Been waiting so, so patiently.
I think your math is off on the number of bikes you need. Far fewer :)
Hi Ray,
Thanks for the 910XT update!! Really glad to hear it will start shipping soon.
FYI, Garmin posted the manuals to the 910XT on their website.
Hi Ray. Just wondering if you know of possible reasons as to why my Garmin 305 should gradually stop picking up the satellites over a period of 1 month within 6 months of buying it. Initially it would take longer to find the sattelites and sometime lose them mid-run and now it can’t pick them up at all. Hve you come across this issue before? Probably needs to be sent back to the guys at Garmin?
If it’s being funky on satellites, try doing a soft reset. Sometimes the satellite cache gets a bit out of whack and just needs a swift kick to the butt.
Failing that, a quick ring to Garmin support almost always figures it out.
thanks for the 910 heads up
Got my confirmation from Amazon that my 910xt is shipping in the next week! Wohoo!!!
I can’t wait to read your write-up on the Magellan once you get your hands on it.
Have the 910 on order and should get late Jan by the sounds of link to highlytunedathletes.blogspot.com.au
Depending on the reviewing and the timing I may to have to have rethink.
My LBS talked to their garmin rep today and was told that the 910 was delayed until May now….is that true? Or is he just wrong and they really are going out this week?
Hi Bryce-
They’re confused. Or, they’re distributor is confused. Or, they never placed their FR910XT order (though, even in that scenario, the dates are more like March).
Sorry, but I’m sure they’ll get it all sorted out.
I can advise that 2 or 3 retailers in Australia received batches this week. I know this because I am from http://www.highlytunedathletes.com.au and we shipped out a bunch of units as soon as they arrived this morning. Further we have been advised that a further larger batch is arriving early next week. Staff are already wearing them and one went for a run this evening wearing the shop demo in prep for a review.
My understanding is that Australia was the first to get them in the world and stock is slowly rolling out worldwide.
I can say that it is definetely not March delivery, It is now !
I have 6 of the hrm version on my desk, left over from todays deliveries awaiting collection by allocated customers.
PS, please do not call us, this is not a sales pitch, we can sell within Australia only and all stock for another month or more is already presold anyway. I am merely advising that deliveries of 910xt’s is occuring now.
PSS, @Nathan Simpson (posted Jan 9), your pre-ordered 910xt will be available in the batch arriving early next week and an email has been sent to you earlier today.
FYI
I ordered the 910XT in early Dec. through Ray’s link on Amazon. The day before Ray posted the nugget, I received a shipping notification for Jan 26th. Last night, I recived an updated ship of March 14. First world problems ;)…..