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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 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.
Cycling I hope
This fat b@stard will get back on his bike after 12years absence. Time to sweat!
Zwift Cervelo TT mission!
A long morning birthday run! Goal of 3 hours.
Cycle Trainer… Beer… repeat!
5k race
Zwifting!
First weekend of normal life after wrapping up the season with IMNC last weekend…..ahhhhh!
cycle cycle cycle
cyclocross weekend
take a good rest, after the tough Taiwan KOM race
go to the great hot spring in taipei
running both days after a few weeksnot running at all
A road ride with TT intervals and a MTB ride through the autumn leaves!
16 mile long-run, and spectating at the Marine Corps Marathon!
Fall weather 10k
Recovering from Xterra Championship Maui last weekend – it was big waves, muddy, hard, hilly and damn hard!!! Did I mention it was hard!!!
Mountain Biking. Maybe in the rain.
Hitting the gym for a big cardio session
I have a three hour bike ride Tom and a 10 mile run on Sunday. TAper week for NYC marathon.
A short ride to test new wheels.
my plan is to finish my “battle plan (training schedule) for my first racing year on a road bike..and running and biking of course, because that is what Im doing every weekend since my childhood..
15km run on friday, TrainerRoad on saturday and 17km run on sunday.
I’ll be working on making the Trek up the South face of Mount Everest, something on my bucket list! Famously crested for the first time in 1953 by New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay.
Hike around Lake Tahoe. Try to get one last fall hike in before winter overtakes and it becomes snowboarding time!! :) Which I’m pretty excited for!! #prayforsnow
around 20 miles on the bike, nothing big.
Bike ride as every Saturday
To lose the 2kg I gained past 4 days in Bangkok
Ride until I forget about everything else.
No training. :( Broke pelvis and about 9 other bones in a group ride two weeks ago
Driving back from vacation in Alabama. Had a nice riding week at the beach
Go Pokes!
Solo ride today and bunch ride tomorrow
Mountain biking and running
A run in the woods with my youngest son and our dog on Saturday, and then a sportive in the Chilterns on Sunday!
Tacx Neo Zwifting is the plan… skywater is falling
First cold weather mountain bike ride of the season. Time to break out the pants and long sleeves.
Middle island challenge – 3km open water race in Hong Kong.
Treadmill + Trainer festival, cold and rainy already in Canada!
Marine corps marathon
10K running with a meet up gang
Doing IM Fla next week so just a little bit of swim, bike and run this weekend.
That time of year in canada thus a dilema will there be snow if so to ski otherwise to cycle
Quivering Quads trail run at Cuivre River state park :)
sadly working all weekend, but hopefully if it’s not busy will jump on the bike trainer.
Bicycling
This time of the year in Kansas, the land of gravel, you head out and do some some gravel grinding on the biggest 700s you can fit in your frame!
Heading out for a quick 5k on Sunday and resting for the rest of the weekend.
Walking a fall festival Saturday then 100k endurance miles Sunday.
Planning on doing a 5k on a witches broom then rehydrating with some ghoul-ade
Ride at Island Lake Stste Park in Michigan on Saturday , Sunday inside with Trainerroad (rain…)
Interval training tomorrow, then long cycle ride on Sunday!!
Cheers
2 long easy rides.
Heavy rain here. All I can do is to work on that spinning bike at home
Nothing. We are doing the Kelley financial summit this weekend. Maybe a couple quick runs.
I’m going to go swimming and hope to get a trail run in, too.
Park run to keep the edge on and then a nice quiet weekend before starting again in Nov for London Marathon
Badminton
Probably the last outdoor ride of the season and getting the little ones ready for treat or treating!
Some long runs with pace miles at the end. I’ll be running along the beautiful space coast of Florida. Preparing for the space coast marathon. ?
Chill out from life and move! Working towards my 1st half distance tri!
10k run and, if the weather holds, some road biking.
Long endurance ride and then intervals on the next day if the weather is not too bad ;)
KISS 100 Americas Race on Zwift
Bike sprints on the trainer and then run strides on Sunday
Saturday: 8x800m intervals, Sunday: 15 mile hilly run
Tore calf muscle at soccer so no marathon training or trainerroad this weekend!
Halloween drinking party followed by a CX race on a BMX course, stoked!
Hmmm… Not much exciting, just walking around town escorting a bunch of friends at a Halloween Party. I’m the DD, which is a lot more work than it sounds!
Put the trainer and bike to good indoor use since it’ll be raining in the cold, white, north.
I finished my season last week, so maybe…MAYBE a 90 minute spin on the trainer getting caught up on Arrow and Gotham
Riding cool trails in Slovenian Alps – link to bikenomad.com including riding 5km long trail in underground mines link to bikenomad.com.
Hopefully also checking beautiful caves nearby – link to geopark-karawanken.at
30 miler.
I’m hoping to go on my first run since tearing my achilles tendon earlier this year. Freedom!
Mostly circuit training lately.
This weekend I have a 12 miles long run. Next Savannah half Marathon!
Walking several miles a day. Biking. Getting ready to suck it up and join a gym.
long bike ride if no rain. or a hike in the park
Hosting an 8 year old birthday party where we are playing soccer, then an outdoor run on Saturday. An hour or so on my ‘dumb’ trainer on Sunday.
Recovery pace on rollers, tweaked the back after CX last weekend.
To ride and not worry about miles. Justin getting out is what counts.
Ride 80km today. 15km run tomorrow and 4km swim
Anytime I can. Rough with three kids
10k training run
Saturday bunch ride followed by Sunday crit race
Time to move the bike into the basement and fire up Trainer Road and the Kickr
50 miles on the road bike.
I’ll be swimming Saturday and Sunday and hopefully getting in an outdoor ride on Sunday afternoon; otherwise, trainer time.
A 5k trail race with the family in the morning and a casual 10mi run in the afternoon.
Lot’s of walking with the dogs, wife, and little one.
Some intense track training today and then some road endurance tomorrow
Start my indoor trainer sessions for the winter
I plan on racing a new segment that just cropped up in my area… fingers crossed!
A long run of 12km to de-stress from all the work.
I will be doing the local fast tempo group ride.
Back to moutain bike for me :)
Getting my running base up. How cool is that?
*drops the mic*
Rest for the weekend before weekday training.
I’m hoping to get a couple thousand meters of swimming and maybe the final long ride (between 50-60 miles) for the year before it gets cold.
5 miles on Saturday and 8 on Sunday. Last weekend before the NYC Marathon!!! Woot!