Heads up! The big Garmin annual spring sale has started, with $200 off the Fenix 8 (first sale to date!), $100 off the Edge 1050, Forerunner 965 at $499, the Forerunner 265, the new Instinct 3, and countless other Garmin products including inReach Mini 2. Plus the Apple Watch Ultra 2 Black Titanium is on sale, and some Suunto & Wahoo product deals too. Full list & thoughts here!
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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 2024 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.
Swimming
Loving the Swimming and Cycling so far.
Cycling! And hockey :)
Swimming!
Women’s 10K ? !
Cycling, swimming, volleyball, water polo, soccer
Handball all the way
Swimming all day, ever day!
Judo, triathlon, swimming, track & field, gymnastics
Gymnastics
heptathlon !
Really liking the rowing (go on the O’Donovan boys!) and swimming
All of them. Except tennis and golf.
Cycling, swimming & archery
Cycling, swimming, gymnastics & track.
Little of everything. Rugby, handball, field hockey, swimming, beach volleyball
Everything! Been recovering from shoulder surgery so locked in front of TV. Archery has been crazy.
Cycling, swimming, running
Volleyball :)
I have really enjoyed the rowing!
Swimming, cycling, and volleyball
Cycling! The Dutch guys and girls!!
Race Walking
Cycling! Super exciting
Badminton. Those guys do some crazy stuff compared to backyard badminton. Also Mary Carillo’s rant from 2004 is required summer viewing. link to youtube.com
Swimming!
Women’s 10,000m
ANY AND ALL EVENTS WITH CANADIANS!!
Swimming and gymnastics
Team Pursuit cycling
Swimming!!
Swimming and Gymnastics
Swimming and cycling
Canoe slalom, cycling….
Cycling: Team Pursuit Mens – Women’s, Team Sprint. High Jump Womens
Swimming and volleyball!
Table tennis, cycling, volley-ball , beach volley, … Lot of sports actually :D
Swimming
Swimming
So far just the clip of the poor bloke who broke his leg and then was dropped by the medics.
Mostly swimming!
TEAM GB Winning cycling medals of course! ??
Swimming, road and track cycling
Velodrome! Go Team GB!
All of them!
Cycling
Field & Tracks
Cycling!
Road Cycling
Track Cycling
Athletics
Rowing
road race women and TT women
Whatever NBC’s crap ass primetime coverage shows, but also ingesting copious amounts of velodrome racing.
Swimming, Cycling of course, and waiting for the track and field to get fully underway!
choose me
Swimming. Cycling. Triathlon.
Swimming, diving, beach volleyball, gymnastics, track, but wishing fencing had more coverage.
I have been watching Penny Oleksiak kick ass and take name in the pool.
PS Canada beat the US in Men’s indoor volleyball a few days back…just gonna put that out there
Cycling and rowing!
Rowing. Norway won the bronze medal…again!!! :-)
Track cycling!!!
Either.
Olympics 2016, dam well watching just about all of it, Go Team GB.
cycling, swimming, rugby,… hell, been binge watching all of it and a special shout out to CBC coverage!!
Track cycling!
Women’s 10,000 – WOW!
Women’s Heptathlon – again, WOW!
What haven’t I watched. I have 6 computer screen streaming and 2 tv’s. I LOVE the OLYMPICS!!!
The cycling road races were great!
Cycling,
Swimming, soccer
Only cycling: road race, TT and today will watch some track.
10000 finale women…VO2MAX ftw
Rowing
Cycling, swimming, and Track and Field. Can’t wait to watch the MTB events in just over a week!
Cycling: road, TT, and track
Swimming
Gymnastics
Rowing
Volleyball
Newfound love for all things Swim/bike/run
marathon
Track cycling :) Fingers crossed for Denmark tonight!
Little bits of the ceremonies and highlights of events (gymnastics, cycling)
Watching the heptathlon, come on Jess!
Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming….
Cycling and rugby
Cycling
I watchers swimming, kajak, tennis, 0f course cycling Where we won GOLD!!!!
Whitewater canoe/kayak, Swimming, Soccer, Road Bike, Beach Volleyball, Triathalon
swimming
Currently watching Murray in the tennis on his way to Gold
Fantastic road cycling race
Road cycling
Cycling, track, swimming, gymnastics, ping pong….actually everything! Introducing my two young kids to the joys and heartache of sport and they are eating it all up like candy.
Curling… ;)
Road & track cycling, a little swimming.
Cycling and rugby
EVERYTHING I CAN! between getting home from work and bed (based in the UK). Today’s women’s 10k was an absolute joy to watch and so has the team cycling pursuits, archery, gymnastics, weightlifting. I love the Olympics and Paralympics, all the sport in such a short space of time
Badminton! (And cycling.)
Track cycling
Gymnastics
I’ve watch the women road race and for sure it was the most intense last 15km ive seen in years!
Swimming and gymnastics have been on when I have watched
Watch as much as I can but mostly been watching swimming and road cycling
Beach Volleyball
loving me some of the rowing!!