The Love You Wanted: $600 Gadget Giveaway

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What’s that?  Your Valentine’s Day was a bust?  No worries, I’m here to try and cheer ya up.  It’s your opportunity to win something you’ll really love (which, may be in addition to someone else you love).

The winner will get a $600 credit to CleverTraining.com, my most excellent partner in this giveaway crime.  By supporting the site through Clever Training you also can save 10% on basically anything they sell.  If you win, you can use that credit for anything from the new Garmin Fenix3 HR to a GoPro Hero4 Black to a water bottle to the PowerTap G3 Hub Power Meter (all of which are under $600!), or heck, even towards a new trainer.  Whatever warms your heart.

How to enter:

Simply let me know what was on your training log for last weekend from a workout perspective.  Quick and easy!

Try to make it more than a few words (i.e. not just ‘10K’), so you’ll avoid the SPAM holding tank (I manually clear it out). And nobody wants to be sandwiched between two pieces of old SPAM.  Got all that?

Good luck!

The giveaway entry period will run through Saturday, February 20th, 2016 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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5,803 Comments

  1. Tim

    I did some intervals on the bike on Saturday and on Sunday I did a gym session with weights.

  2. Rob

    Unfortunilty some ‘leg’ issues…hopping to run ASAP again!

  3. Mike Lacy

    90 minutes on Trainer Road with Hangover, the movie and a fatty trail ride with my LBS…Two PIYO workouts mixed in there as well.

  4. Nathan Mackay

    A nice steady bike ride and some hiking in southern England.

  5. Gee

    swimm drills all week long

  6. Michael (Warsaw)

    Swimming with my children then run 45′ = 9 km . Same on Sunday without swim. Love my VivoActive…

  7. Tyler

    After an SI joint sprain, just easing into things with light ROM weightlifting and some Concept 2 rowing.

  8. Fraser

    Saturday bike intervals, Sunday crossfit workout.

  9. Sébastien LEONARD

    I did a workout at the gym with Run, RPM, Sprint RPM and weights to prepare Paris half-marathon and Paris marathon. See you there may be !!!

  10. Matthew B.

    Ugh, I got a big ol’ goose egg for training this past weekend, minus a nice hike on Sunday.

  11. Emmanuel

    My Training log this weekend was a two and a half ( 26,5 Km) trail run in the Soignes Forest in Brussels. A nice preparation for my first Marathon in 8 days.

  12. Jonathan

    Ran a cross country half marathon – it hurt!

  13. Chris

    Saturday short pool swim after 6 months of shoulder recovery and Sunday 10k trail run.

  14. Chris

    Spent some quality time with trainer road

  15. Mike

    Weekend away with the my Wife and Kids so none! However credit in the bank now for some early bike and swim sessions this weekend.

  16. steve

    3 hour tempo ride

  17. Zwift! Easy ride on Saturday and 20-minute over/under intervals on Sunday.

  18. Joe

    60 mile ride and 17 mile run. love the desert weather

  19. Stan Sokol

    Running 10 K and 50 KM cycle ride!

  20. Hubert

    Saturday I looked over the kids (burned a couple of thousand calories) and Sunday I cooked to recover my calories (in order to prepare for the 7ich workouts this week)

  21. Paul

    Tempo run, Mile Intervals, LongRun, Yoga

  22. Jonathan Blomqvist

    2.5h zone 2 on saturday
    3,5h zone 2 on Sunday both done on the trainer.

  23. M Hill

    Two good road rides one long and the other for intervals.

  24. Jan Roman

    Every sunday, the team meets for strength training in a gym. Very hard trainings, yet motivating 🙂

  25. Alex Masidlover

    A bike ride on the High Peak Trail with my son on Saturday followed by a trot up the Middlewood Way ending with 7km of race pace running down the A6 on Sunday.

  26. Michal S.

    just a short run

  27. Larry

    Unfortunately no workouts for me. Was recovering from post V procedure. Three kids are enough.

  28. Runningbezz

    MTB & Yoga, Saturday. Turbo & S&C Sunday

  29. Jerry M.

    Did a Saturday run at the gym and a Zwift workout on Sunday.

  30. Terry Reich

    Running through a local hilly area to train for my trip to Nepal in April!

  31. Phellan

    On saturday 2 session day. In the morning weightlifting with a crosstrainer transfer power. In the afternoon 1 hour of crosstrainer.
    On sunday 1h and a half of running in the treadmill with the trail backpack fully loaded.

  32. Joe

    13 hrs of biking, 4 hrs of running, 2 hrs of weights

  33. Saras

    Sufferfest videos (with trainerroad) back to back sat and sun to finish my first tour of sufferlandria ?

  34. Joe

    My weekend starts at thurday with a 112km ride because my wife was off with the kids, and ended on saturday night with a 31km run by exploring (for me) new trails when my family come back home.

  35. Hannes

    Short nightride on my local mountain. Thanks for organising the giveaway!

  36. Davidc

    Ride with the kids, then solo century

  37. Hubert Mayer

    I spent my time last Weekend on my bike.
    On Saturday a short Loop of 50km. On Sunday 72km. All on the road. Weather was in Bavaria to warm to spent the time on the trainer 🙂

  38. tomaek

    saturday was my usual rest day and on sunday i did a hilly 15 mile run

  39. Radu

    10k run on the treadmill Sat and snow shovelling on Sun 🙂

  40. John Kissane

    Took part in a 50k race as part of build up to an ultra in May.

  41. Jonas L

    On Saturday I did gym and swimming, on sunday one hour indoor cycling lead by instructor.

  42. Andrew S

    Flat out 75km bunch ride on Saturday; tempo 175km solo ride on Sunday

  43. Duncan

    90 mins of intervals on the bike on Saturday follwed by an easy 12km jog on Sunday.

  44. Jurgen

    I did a long ED run and a small interval on bike…..

  45. Arist

    Rest on Saturday and 6 km cross country running on Sunday

  46. Matt

    A couple of easy jogs during the week and then a half marathon on Sunday.

  47. Darren

    Last training week involved two painful turbo sessions with trainer road and sufferfest and a club ride out in the Wicklow mountains

  48. Norm Bungay

    Sadly, I’m injured. Though I had planned an hour session on the trainer, there was no workout for me.

  49. Matt

    Last weekend I did a tempo run, HIIT Intervals, and an easy hike.

  50. Matthijs

    I did a run on saterday and a bike ride on sunday in the rain

  51. Jonathan

    Workout in the kitchen, prepared desserts for the wife’s restaurant’s valentines night, so no other activities for me!

  52. chris_s

    Running in the porig raun.

  53. Riding 3h fartlek on saturday and closing my week end with 2h ride which include 20 x 30″/30″ intervals on sunday !
    Easy recovery on monday :p

  54. Jerry Andry

    Long run on the trails and lots of core work

  55. Rob

    Sunday morning 13 mile long run

  56. MichaelR

    12K snowshoe run on Fri, rest Sat and 4 games of Ultimate Frisbee on snowshoes Sun.

  57. Peter

    On friday I did some core & stability training combined with Power training
    On saturday I did some indoortraining on low HR 115 with rpm 100
    On sunday MTB ride of about 45km track in cold & mud trying to keep HR lower than 165.
    (And afterwards a nice Duvel to conclude the weekend 🙂 )

  58. Javier

    Broken collarbone so basically eating + Netflix… :-/

  59. Paul Frylink

    Saturday 6.5km Run (incorporating locsl park run)
    Sunday 650m vertical hike up Flinders peak and back

  60. Max

    Century ride!

  61. Joe N

    I did a 14 mile training run in zero degree wind chill. This weekend the forecast is for the fifty’s. I love spring.

  62. Art

    Found any excuse to get in the saddle Sunday with the warmer weather. Ran some errands, got in a hard 20-mins testing out s a new shorter stem on the TT bike, then a cool down with my wife and son before settling in for some movies. All in all a great Val.

  63. Matt Leary

    Managed a 90min ride but due to injury I was reduced to volunteering at the finish line for the major local 10km event for the year.

  64. Phillip

    I got through my weeks training by Friday so I had the weekend free ..yahoo!
    But then my missus saw me with all that free time and assigned random extra jobs..doh!

  65. Mark

    Two indoors Spinning sessions and one outdoor run.

    Still waiting for better weather so that I can get out on the bike again!

  66. 10 km run on Friday night (had to do something on valentines)
    32 km run on Saturday morning
    105 km cycle on Sunday morning
    2 km swim Sunday afternoon

    Deep sleep Sunday night.

  67. Ryan

    Given the weather was cold I stuck to a limited regime of running 13+18km and let the biking and kayaking sessions wait until ice is not a factor. I hope 2016 will make amends for the almost complete absence of summer we suffered through in 2015!

  68. brian

    120 Min Turbo ride with 4 x 12 mins @ zone 4 Watts

    Followed by 15 min brick run @ defcon 4

  69. Lukas

    finally setup my bike indoor trainer and spent 4 hours on it on Saturday. So much fun!

  70. Johann

    Swi, swa swimming on Saturday and sunday.

  71. Patrick Utrecht

    Did a bike run of 30km to prepare for the upcoming season. Also started hiking more so I can pick up actual running later this month after a long injury.

  72. Mike

    Workouts? I thought this was the off season still? Why are you pressuring me to exercise!!!

  73. Nick

    Mainly some DIY on the house :(. Training is limited to lunch time during the week at the moment!

  74. John Bairen

    Friday: walk 5 miles, run 5 miles
    Saturday: walk 2 miles, run 4.5 miles
    Sunday: stationary bike 10.5 miles
    Monday: run 4.5 miles

  75. Ken

    Ran an easy 5m on Saturday then 9m tempo on Sunday. Oh, does shoveling snow count? Did a lot of that too.

  76. AndiT

    Went to the gym twice, I hate squats. Also training for a 5k for March, so been doing speed workouts and also had a weekend long-run (12 km).

  77. Snews

    Mostly bike… One intense ride with intervals and one long and slow recovery ride.

  78. Ryan

    A workout in both Richmond and Watopia on Zwift all from the comfort of my basement!

  79. Vince

    Saturday – The Hunted Sufferfest on the turbo
    Sunday – 4 hours steady ride with full out efforts up Titsy, Toys and Ide Hill.

  80. Steve J

    My training involved installing oak stair treads. Forearm work (air nailer) and foot strengthening (standing on half-finished steps). Nice weather hopefully will lead to a long run for this coming weekend.

  81. Rich

    It was a good week ;-0
    SUMMARY
    Total Duration 8:11
    Bike time 6:40
    Bike Miles 100
    Running TIME 30m
    Rum miles 2.70
    Strength 1:01

    TSS 413.5

  82. MarkS

    2.5hr run in the rain on saturday – so much fun.. then 4hrs of hills on the bike on sunday.

  83. Mathieu D.

    I went for an hour long session of hometrainer on Saturday, then an easy jog (10k, 50min) on Sunday afternoon.

  84. Matthew

    playing giant jenga on a family trip away.

  85. John Pophal

    Did two cross-county ski outings of 18k and 20k.

  86. Tagg LeDuc

    We both did the Heartbreaker Adventure Race

  87. Andrea

    Last weekend I had planned a 60K bike ride on saturday and a 16K run on sunday. Could not do the ride becouse of a neck pain that would not let me even try to turn my head from friday morning, but I managed to do the sunday run. No other valentine’s activities this year…

  88. Christian Martinussen

    I did 70 minutes short bike intervals on the hometrainer and 70 minutes run (cut down to 25 minutes due to running right after eating).

  89. Carl Elgin

    Saturday:
    Morning Masters swim practice which involved a 1500yd snake swim through the whole pool
    Easy 3mi treadmill run

    Sunday:
    2-hour long ride from TrainerRoad(Matanuska)

  90. Dave

    120 minutes slightly hungover TrainerRoad intervals on Sunday.

  91. Alex C

    DIY, the little one & family duties got in the way this weekend, but I made up for it with a tempo run on Monday & hitting the pool on Tuesday morning.

  92. Will

    Ran the Austin Marathon on Valentine’s day. This was my first go at the 26.2 and I learned a lot along the way. Thankfully now I get to ride my bike a lot more.

  93. Josh

    Taper back week for 26.2 training so only a 13 mile run

  94. Alexander Metzger

    simply: it was a desaster. None of the planned workouts were held… 🙂

  95. Terra72

    One hour of strength training and a 10 km run (+numerous walks with the dog).

    Not as active as I would have liked.

  96. Mike B

    More than a new words, hmm….does “Tour of Sufferlandria” count then?

  97. Benjamin Sportes

    last week i did a 2 running session one of 17km and other on tracks of 9km with blocs.
    and i also did swim and bike session for a total of 8h in the week 🙂

    tks

  98. Rick

    Long run on the treadmill and intervals on the bike trainer because it was ridiculously cold

  99. Ryan

    Saturday – Trip to Belgium with girlfriend.

    Sunday – 18 Mile Run

  100. Lukasz

    An ankle sprain is stopping me from running what I want. Hope to start training again this week.