Heads up!!! Here’s your massive holiday sports tech deals list! This includes the Garmin Epix for just $419, the Apple Watch Ultra 2 for just $699, the GoPro Hero 12 Black for $249, (or the brand new Hero 13 or $299!) and plenty more! Go check out the full list of 100+ deals here!
I’m DC RAINMAKER…
Here’s how to save!
Wanna save some cash and support the site? These companies help support the site! With Backcountry.com or Competitive Cyclist with either the coupon code DCRAINMAKER for first time users saving 15% on applicable products.
You can also pick-up tons of gear at REI via these links, which is a long-time supporter as well:
Alternatively, for everything else on the planet, simply buy your goods from Amazon via the link below and I get a tiny bit back as an Amazon Associate. No cost to you, easy as pie!
You can use the above link for any Amazon country and it (should) automatically redirect to your local Amazon site.
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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.
Thanks for running this, DCR!
Thank you for your generosity and congratulation to the winners!
congrats! I didn’t know about this but next time I will follow the site more closely.
congrats to all the winners! and thanks to Ray for his amazing work!
Thanks Ray and congratz to all the winners!
Congratulations to all the winners (stole my stuff :p) and thanks to Ray for an awesome competition :D
Congratulations to all the winners. I am still waiting for the day when random.org plays nice.
Thanks Ray, that was fun!
Congrats to the winners.
Thank you Ray for running a unique and fun day
well until 2016 then….get many many many new toys!!!!!
and congrats to those who took what was supposed to be mine….errrr sorry, to the winners !.
Congrats to the winners. Thanks Ray, for putting this on.
Congratulations to all winners. Thanks Ray for all the amazing prices.
Awesome giveaway, and congratulations to the lucky ones!
This game is rigged, I tell you! Love the chance to play, enjoy the toys folks!
Congratulation to all winners!
OK Bryan, time to say something important!
And thanks Ray for the site and the extravaganza!
Have fun with your new toys, peeps. Congrats. :)
Wish I was congratulating myself, nevertheless, congrats to the winners.
I’m confused. Why didn’t I win?
Had great fun, thanks Ray and Clever Training and congratulations to all the winners.
Also a hearty thank you to Ray and Clever Training for the awesome opportunities!
Congratulations to all of the winners!
I knew I wouldn’t win…so why did I even try?
Congrats to the winners!
Woah. I’m super excited! Kickr here I come.
Thanks Ray and Clever Training!
Impressive comment in your winning post – congrats & enjoy
Whoa!
*Note: not the same person as the winner of the Withings Scale as I didn’t even enter that contest but the name really threw me for a loop!
Congrats other Neil B!
Better luck next year:)
Grats to the winners. Thanks for this event!
Congrats winners!!! I’m ready for next year!
Typo in the 4PM giveaway lucky number 3310 vs 3130 comment. Unfortunatelly, I’m not one of those numbers!!! This was a great event. Thanks Ray and Clever Training
Thanks, Ray. Awesome effort putting it all together.
Congrats all, thanks Ray!
Thanks Ray and well done everyone! #maybenextyear
Thanks for all the hard work and a diverting day and evening of entering comments. Holding out hope next year for a dozen cupcakes and a pawtographed photo of Miss Lucy.
Congrats to all winners and thanks Ray for setting up the draws
Thanks Ray and Clever Training, extravaganza is brilliant, i hope i’ll win one day !
It was awesome, even waking up at 4 a.m. just to drop another doge inspired comment. Not so much for whoever happened to read those but hey…
link to youtube.com
Thanks for all your hard work Ray, next year I will try and really hack the RNG, but congrats to all the winners, enjoy the new toys!
Fun day, nonetheless
Let’s wait for the next year!
Thanks Ray !!! and a big congrats to the winners!!
did not win, don’t care although it would have been fun, like the site and your insights. love the comment of bryan alsdorf, cool to be winning that way! :)
You have the wrong winner for the 4pm give away. Your random number was 3310, but you picked 3130. You can just give it to me instead.
Fear not – just a typo in the post. I’ve got screenshots of all the Random.org winners and the actual winner was indeed 3130 (same as screenshot). Phew!
Thanks Ray!!! I like the idea of the combined Garmin/Strava sex tape.
Awesome as usual! Thanks Ray!!
Thanks to Ray & CT. Happy Days to the lucky winners
So bummed, maybe next year :)
Thanks for everything Ray, even without the giveaways I visit the site near daily looking for interesting new sports tech.
Once again, top notch, Ray. Congratulations to all the winners!
Congrats to the winners. That was a lot of fun. May be next year ;-(
That was FUN!!!! Thank You!!!
Thanks for helping me spend another day doing something a lot more fun than, you know, working. Ray and CT, y’all absolutely rock! Congrats to everyone who came away with a prize, although we’re all winners.
have fun with your new toys guys :)
thx ray & CT for the giveaway!
Congrats everyone! & nice job running this again Ray.
Congratulations to the winners, and a big thank you Ray!
Very good DC. Thank you.
Congrats to the winners and as always, thanks, Ray and CT!
I can’t remember what comment I left, am I the same Dan? Looks like an extra night of excited anticipation to find out if I get an email!
Unfortunately, you would be a different Dan. This is Dan with an e-mail address starting with Dmi****@gmail
Sorry!
Darn, still fun playing.
Thanks as always Ray.
I think you’re wrong. I’m pretty sure his email started with danmail. :)
Nah, it was danl*******@gmail.com
Clearly there are too many Dans in the world. Time to break out the old T800 and cull the herd. :)
Thanks, Ray. Am I the right Dan? If so, that is sweet! Otherwise, congrats to the other Dan!
Thanks for the nice Avg2015.
Congratulations and thanks!
Thanks again, Ray!!!
Thanks Ray.
congrats to all the winners and to Ray for his efforts. thank you so much: it has been really really fun joining 2015 Giveaway.
Thanks for running this and congratulations to the winners :)
No luck this time but it was great fun anyway. Thank you Ray, for this and for all the interesting and entertaining posts.
It was so much fun. Thanks again!
Please use my random number generator site next year.
Thanks!
:-)
Thanks Ray
Congratulations to all the winners! Thanks Ray and Clever Training.
Gratz to the winners and great work with all you have done Ray!
Always fun to play the Raymaker Lottery. Congrats to all the winners. I am green with envy. Thanks Ray, class act as always.
Thank you for all your work Ray, and bravo to the winners!
Congratulations to all the winners!
Congratulations to all winners. For all non winners (not losers, since there was no effort needed to enter), we’ll have to wait for the next one.
Thanks Ray, Thanks Clever training
thanks Ray!
I missed one out of 12 giveaway… sure I would have won this one!
Congrats to the winner,thx to Ray for this brilliant contest and next time … I’ll WIN!
i didn’t win, but thanks DCR for this extravaganza
Congratulations to the winners! :)
Congratulations all the winners!
Thanks to Ray and Clever Training. Great event.
Thanks for running this, it was fun :)
thank you for this opportunity, i hope for next year!
Many thanks for the give-away Ray and for all your hard work on the site
Great fun, thank you Ray and Clever Training for setting this up for all of us :)
Robbed! It’s a fix…
Seriously, thanks for running this again.
Congrats to all winners, and cheers to DCR for running the comp
congrats to the winners, thanks to Ray and CT
Thanks for organizing this! I’m afraid something has gone wrong as I didn’t win anything :-)
Thanks for all you do!
Nice work Ray. Thanks for the amazing work… One of these comps will come through… Although things have changed a lot in the last few years since I started following the blog! You talked me into a 310xt the day you released it’s review. And I’ve been hooked ever since!
As an ultra runner I’m loving my ambit 3! Although the android app needs some work!
Thanks again.
And congrats to all the winners…
Thanks so much Ray for running this! It was real fun!
Haven’t clicked on the “post-marathon day walk” link before: really funny.
A couple more things I forgot in previous comment:
– thanks to Clever Training too, of course. Speaking of which… any news for DCR’s site supporters wannabe spread across Europe?
– Random.org, I know where you live!! :)
Than next year!!! :)
Thank you for your detailed reviews. They are very helpful!
Thanks for setting this up, gutted that I didn’t get lucky, but well done to those that did, I’m extremely envious.
Also thanks for removing the accidental dupe entries, I know I was guilty of this at least once due to strange mobile/local wifi phone issues. Its really appreciated you don’t just knock them all out, so thanks
That was a different experience! Great job Ray!
Thanks Ray for this giveaway, hope to be winner next time.
it was fun! tnx DC
Congrats to all the winners,
I’m already looking forward to next one. It is a day of fun.
Every one else is telling that I’m crazy to get up every 2 hours into the night, but it is worth the chance.
thanks Ray
Congratulations to the winners!
Well done Ray thanks for running this. Maybe next year I will get lucky.
Well done to all the winners.
Well done, Ray, thanks again.
Congrats to all winners!
Had a great time entering all the fun free giveaways. Makes for an exciting day at work, no productivity but exciting, even if I didn’t win ?
Thanks Ray!!
Haha funny enough to see someone winning by replying a dutch expression. Roughly translated ‘If You Don’t Try You Will Never win’. So I’m keeping at that ‘niet geschoten is altijd mis’. It’s always an exciting events and perhaps next year I’ll be more lucky. Thanks for the effort Ray!
Despite not winning anything thank you so much Ray for doing that
Thanks Ray for hosting a fantastic giveaway! Congrats to all the winners. I especially like Bryan’s winning comment.
This was nuts! Your site traffic much have been absolutely crazy.
Thanks Ray for organizing and thanks CT for the generosity.
is it too late to join the now?
Thanks!! I won 2 days dreaming it was mine ;-)
Thank you for even giving us all a change and all the people that makes this possible. Highly appreciated.
Foiled again by that dreaded Random.org number generator. There’s GOT to be some way I can hack system and ensure that I can win next year!
meh heh heh.
:-)
Great work, as always.
Thanks Ray for the Extravaganza! Congratulations to the Winners!
Was a great event, as always
Even though I didn’t win and was a zombie for the next couple of days, I enjoyed the extravaganza. Keep up the good work and I can’t wait for your Apple iWatch review.
Best,
Neil
I would have won, too, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!!! (Probably a too obscure Scooby Doo reference for you, young Ray)
Thanks again.
I didn’t win, but still had a ton of fun! Maybe next year…
My girl friend thinks I’m nuts, but I had a great time, and I spent a bit of time re reading reviews and considering buying products that ordinarily I would not. So maybe Ray is crazy like a fox.
Thanks again! Cool to see so much activity!
With my Garmin stolen the other week I though I would wait to see if I had won one from you… Oh dear, best I start to look at buying a new one, I just can’t use the old 205 for ever…
Great job Ray, site is great -literally the bible on all sports gadgets. Hoping for better luck next year. Congrats to all the lucky winners!
Thanks again Ray for the amazing giveaway, it is always a fun day and congrats to all the winners.
One of these days i’ll win something.
Congrats to all!
Was it me that was lucky enough to win the GoPro? Can’t remember my comment. But my competitive side really wants it to be me.
Thanks to DCRainmaker and Clever training for the giveaways. As everyone says they are so much fun.
bah !
I’ll win at Euromillion and buy Clever Training !
congrats to the happy few !!!
Congrats to the winners and thx Ray for this :)
Thanks Ray,
Always fun to try.
Congrats to the winners
Thanks for doing this Ray. I would have loved to win but the competition was tough. I thought that if I left the comment ‘pick me, random number generator, pick me!’ that it would listen….guess not.
Thanks for putting this on again!
Thanks Ray