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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.
Road cycling & ITT
Cycling, field hockey, arching, swimming, …
Swimming and beach volleyball here. And a bit of diving.
Cycling, gymnastics, and under water basket weaving.
Can’t beat the swimming and the track cycling for excitement!
Volleyball and swimming have been great. Now I need a trainer!
Cycling, volleyball (indoors), swimming (so far!)
Water Polo
Thanks, Ray
Cycling and swimming!
Vollyball/biking/swimming
All of them! Cycling, swimming, gymnastics, handball, water polo, equestrian, sculls, rifle, basketball, kayaking, table tennis, badminton, etc.
Cycling, rowing
Triathlon, Swimming & cycling! And a tiny smidgeon of golf…
Mainly swimming, quite a bit of cycling, some soccer, some basketball, some diving and some beach volleyball.
Cycling and swimming
RUGBY!!!
A lot of swimming, and now looking forward to track events.
Watching just about everything, just found myself watching horses prance round, sorry I mean dressage…
everything i can
Golf!!!
On holiday so not much time to watch but did see the Road race cycling men & women, great stuff!
I was at the edge during the womans Road Race event
Road and track cycling, Gymnastics, Rowing (about time Ireland got a medal)!
Cycling, swimming, handball, rowing
Cycling, shooting (trap and skeet), rugby 7’s, kayaking.
Swimming, heptathlon, cycling, track today with the slightly dodgy 10k final.
swimming, cycling
Amazed by the technical ability and seeming disregard for personal safety of the gymnasts and divers!
Whatever I can find on TV…
Cycling, swimming, triathlon.
‘sall about the road cycling
Mostly the swimming events!
I wish they would put a regular athlete in every event so people could see how superhuman all the Olympians really are!
Cycling and swimming.
swimming, phelps amazing!
Swimming!
Cycling, swimming, and triathlon.
Swimming!
Cycling, of course!
Gymnastics, diving, … Everything we usually don’t get to see on TV :-)
All 42 of them
Enjoying the US v Sweden women’s soccer quarterfinal as I type! Quite dramatic in extra time. Also gymnastics and swimming.
Cycling and swimming
Trampoline
Whatever is on at any time of day.
Beach Volleyball!
Currently swimming and gymnastics because my wife has veto powers over our remote control.
Hockey!
I’ve been watching gymnastics and swimming
Gymnastics, athletic and anything I can catch…
Swimming !
Running, swimming, cycling, triathlon, rugby
Beach volley, Judo, swimming
Swimming, gymnastics, beach vb and even caught a bit of water polo today
Swimming. Track and field will be nice.
Everything with pedals included. Road cycling, TT and track Racing. Looking forward to the Mtb as well
Cycling, fencing, swimming
Track cycling but anything I can get time to watch! :)
Wahoo Kickr would be a great addition to my pain cave and my cycle training regimen in preparing for my first century
Mens baaketball
Cycling and swimming
Timetrial, Swimming
The heptathlon highjump for women, 100m freestyle, cycling road,..as much Belgians as I can :)
Amazed by all the amazing athletes but Phelps takes the top at 31!!!
I’ve been watching hours of lovely dancing horses, or so called ‘Dressage’. Please help me gradually reintegrate into the real world with a nice new Wahoo Kickr!
Gymnastics, rowing and swimming
Rugby and cycling :)
just watched me some fencing
Cycling, swimming and Judo
Cycling, gymnastics, and swimming! ?????
Rowing, heptathlon
Phelpsing. FKA swimming.
Swimming, gymnastics, volleyball
Gymnastics with my 3 year old daughter who keeps saying she can do the balance beam
Been watching the rowing – fab to see local Cork guys in the medals today.
Itt and horseriding ;-)
Road cycling, track cycling, gymnastics, canoeing, fencing!
Cycling, track and swimming
EVERYTHING! Obviously
Road bike races and TT races
Gymnastics and velodrome of course
Swimming, all of the swimming. Next up, track cycling.
What I’ve watched most was cycling, judo, fencing, rugby sevens, and women’s soccer. Looking forward to track and field starting up.
Fabian’s tt truly special
Sailing & Cycling
SWIMMING USA! USA! USA!
Handball tournament and swimming. Though watching chinese players doing table tennis is incredible fun
Currently is 20k walk on TV. I hope there will ve at least one “runner” left at the end…
Road and track cycling
USA – Sweden, quart de finale en football
Cycling and Swimming mainly so far.
Track cycling, swimming, heptathlon, diving… (OK I admit it… all of them.. glued to the TV ;)
Cycling, cycling, cycling ?
Them all!
Everything I can……..rowing is on right now!
Cycling belgian gold !!! Super great !!!
Cycling and running.
Some swimming, badminton, but waiting for the Tri!
Cycling, swimming, rowing
Cycling, golf, swimming and handball
The cycling road races were awesome! Now looking forward to Triathlon, Athletics and MTBiking!!
Road cycling