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.
judo!
Swimming
Swimming. Go Phelps.
I’ve been watching swimming and time trials!
I’ve been intrigued by the whitewater kayaking. I didn’t even know it was an Olympic sport. It is awesome.
What a crazy, crazy women’s 10K…
I’ve been watching women’s cycling events! The road race was incredible!
Swimming, diving, gymnastics, and–of course–cycling.
Love the gymnastics and the swimming!
Swimming
Cycling, men and women
TT cycling
Gymnastics
Swimming
Judo
Canoe
Men’s & Women’s Road Race & Time Trials
Womens handball
Track and Field.
Been watching Swimming and athletics.
Swimming, Diving, Field Hockey (first time ever) and both Volleyballs
Watching the swimming events!
I watched men road race and “pushing” my TV, to help Majka win gold. As the TV was solid placed, he finished only third ;) – joking, everyone was very happy!
Swimming. Me Me Me~~ Thank you!
Wachint the younger swimmer Penny Oleksiak from canada becoming the most medal canadien person in one olympic! Awesome!
Everything! That’s the only time you can switch from ping pong to swimming on TV!
Rowing, Cycling & Swimming
Gymnastics, swimming and cycling
Swimming, Gymnastics, and now T&F!
fencing
Cycling
Track cycling and road racing.
Yes
I’ve been very busy watching swimming and cycling.
Swimming !
Rowing :) And track and field
Cycling and hockey.
Swimming, Beach Volley-ball, Indoor Volley-ball!!
All the Canadian events. Especially anything triathlon related so far swimming and cycling have been awesome to see all of the worlds top athletes in one spot. Minus all the zika deterred folks.
Men’s Team Pursuit track cycling
Swimming! It’s awesome!
Road cycling, swimming and rowing so far
Women’s cycling race! So sad Annemiek crashed, she deserved gold!
Oh I have been watching a lot. As a Dutchman of course swimming, cycling road and TT, but also a lot of ball games like basketball and hockey. And as of today I will be watching the athletics with dutch contenders like Schippers
Swimming has been a blast to watch
Been watching the All-Blondes play the US ladies
Swimming, cycling, table tennis, golf and so on…
Track cycling! Come on the Brits!
Mostly been watching swimming so far.
Swimming, Gymnastics, Cycling!!!
I’ve been watching beach volley: go Italy! ;-)
I was watching the swimming events
Swimming
Been an emotional poolside adventure. 200m fly, IM and some fascinating freestyle.
As much as possible. Epic performances so far
Road cycling!
Emma Johansson cycling
I’ve been watching a lot of archery. Not sure why, I’ve never shot a “real” bow before. They’re shooting at 70 meters though, that’s nuts!
Swimming and gymnastics
Boxing strangely enough
Swimming, and bike time trial.
Swimming…now on to track and field!
Track cycling, Road cycling, Time trail!
Excited for track events to start!
Swimming has been awesome for us! GO CANADA. And now of course Athletics!
All the cycling, Dressage, Cross country, gymnastics
I am watching every evening. Cycling, Gymnastics, dives, judo
TT of course
I’ve been watching all the swimming events, and as much of the cycling as I’ve been able to find
Swimming
Rugby 7s
Swimming, cycling and rugby
Swimming. Go Penny Oleksiak! 16 years old and 4 medals. Wow
Ping pong, handball, and synchronized swimming
So far, cycling (track and road), swimming, tennis, bit of football and rugby and even a bit of hockey. Will be watching track and field, triathlon, marathon. Think that’s everything!
track cycling
Track cycling, judo and much more
Swimming
Cycling cycling and more cycling :-)
Love watching gymnastics
All swimming all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Makes me miss it so much
Archery, road cycling, track cycling, and swimming
Crazy road racing! Men AND woman.
Swimming, track, gymnastics, beach volleyball,road racing, TT racing, sculling
Swimming almost exclusively.
All the swimming events —
I have been watching : handball, swimming, gymnastics, cycling (both road and track) some sailing and rowing. I’m looking forward to track and field events ås well.
Swimming and Phelps!
Swimming, and the Great Britain win in the bike velodrom
Swimming, cycling and eventing! :)
Swimming and all cycling events. Go Chloe Dygert!!!!!!
Swimming
Swimming
Awesome ….love swimming and gymnastics
People jumping from great heights in to green water!
Rio. I’ve been watching gymnastics
Swimming, and road bike racing has been the best so far! Looking forward to watching the Tri athletes in that course!
Rugby 7?? what the???
Soccer!
Swimming
Biking :)
Swimming, swimming, and swimming! Looking forward to triathlon in a week.
Cycling
Men’s and women’s road races
Handball
TT cycling and some swimming