The Day in May DCR $500 Gadget Giveaway!

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It’s a day in May.  No, not May Day.  That, according to Wikipedia is May 1st.  Rather, it’s May 20th – which I reason is 20 times better than May 1st (albeit, less awesome than May 5th).  Why’s it better?  Because I’m giving away gadget awesomeness.  I originally planned to give away the Garmin FR935 GPS watch, the backorder is basically down to almost nothing.  But then I figured – you can choose anything you’d like.  Perhaps you’re more of a cyclist, or you just want a large pile of compression sleeves instead.  Your choice.

Speaking of coverage – if you didn’t see my tweet yesterday, there’s a BOATLOAD of sales on right now (both from Clever Training as well as others).  The best deal being 30% off the Garmin FR735XT GPS watch.  But also some solid 20% off deals on power meters, trainers, and 25% off on Suunto gear.  The full details are here!

In any case, the winner will get a $500 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 (or get points instead).  If you win, you can use that credit for anything from the GoPro Hero5 Black to that Garmin FR935, to a random pair of socks to the PowerTap C1 power meter, or heck, even towards a new trainer.  With that kind of credit, the world is your oyster (except…they don’t sell oysters).

How to enter:

Simply leave a note about what athletic adventures you’re up to this weekend.  Easy as that!

Oh – and you’ll likely avoid the SPAM filters if you’re more detailed than just the word ‘run’.  Nobody likes to get sandwiched between two pieces of SPAM. Got all that?

Good luck!

The giveaway entry period will run through Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 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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7,467 Comments

  1. Matt Oliver

    Was supposed to do a 75m gravel race but it got rained out. So I’m stuck on the trainer watching Netflix

  2. Robert G.

    We ran a 5.21 km ‘queen run’ race to celebrate. “I love you” day in China. The numbers 5-2-1 sound vaguely similar to the words I-love-you in mandarin. Tomorrow is cycling and swimming!

  3. Giorgos

    A night of camping, then early morning mountain hike!

  4. Lasse

    My first 100KM bike ride.

  5. Naoki

    Easy swim, 40 miles ride and 10 miles run!

  6. William Rush

    Chasing my grandson in Seattle.

  7. Ryan

    Doing some recovery runs to keep the legs moving after the Eugene Marathon.

  8. Neda Nguyen

    Testing out new pedals!

  9. srad

    Hiking in the Dandenongs

  10. Johan

    A 30km run as the last preparation before Stockholm Marathon in two weeks :)

  11. Daniel

    Just and easy 5k on Saturday

  12. Dawn M.

    45 mile bike with my husband followed by 3500 yards in the pool. Easy 45 minute spin on Sunday. Ironman training is easier when your husband comes along for the training rides :)

  13. Greg

    8 mile run sat
    15 mile bike sun
    Easy weekend

  14. Oleg

    Caught a cold. I hope to start running again on Monday

  15. Aaron Shea

    Run…bike…run…bike…run

  16. Ari Gordin

    I will be going for a 35 min easy run Sunday morning and then taking a history final exam followed by preparing for a chemistry final exam. Not too exciting. Hopefully on Monday I can resume my full training plan.

  17. Tobi K

    A short run with my son and a longer walk with the family

  18. Becca

    Going hiking with my hammock. Looking for the perfect trees to hang on for an afternoon nap.

  19. Zbyszek

    Some TT training.

  20. Aaron Severin

    It’s Kansas and gravel season, so riding gravel in prep for upcoming gravel races…

  21. Ryan Hood

    I’ll mostly just be walking all over Disneyland this weekend, though I do hope to get in a quick run in the morning before the kids are up and moving.

  22. Mike Race

    Went for my first 60 mile bike ride into the peak district. (previous longest ride was 10 miles)

  23. Robin S.

    Walking with my dog through some beautiful neighborhoods.

  24. Susan

    Getting my AIARE I cert this weekend.

  25. Nir

    A runner mostly, bike from time to time…

  26. Robert

    3 mile run along a lake in Hillsborough, and starting my 2-year old on the bike with trainers.

  27. Pille Pipar

    Tallinn City Trail 21 km on Saturday.

  28. Sam Winn

    10 trail miles and a track workout.

  29. Jacob Mitchell

    Competing in the XC Marathon mountain bike series in Southern Ontario, Canada.

  30. Erik O.

    All I have time to do is bike to and from work this weekend!

  31. Mark Yeo

    Will be continuing to ramp up my training volume in preparation for my first olympic distance triathlon and a marathon at the end of the year!

  32. Vance

    Trail run today, rock climbing tomorrow.

  33. Hans

    running behind our little peanut and preparing everything to run to work tomorrow

  34. Dominik

    I´ll some couch athletics.

  35. Chris W

    Nothing. just finished the season so running after our daughter…which is a life long endurance event!

  36. woolf

    Today is 12km run session for me ;)

  37. SK Chang

    Running around the weekend meeting venue in the forest. :)

  38. Johan

    Just my Sunday morning swim (at 8 AM)

  39. Mickey

    Gonna try to calibrate my 4iii

  40. Pierre JOLIVET

    I’ve been doing an easy run around hippodrome de Saint-cloud, recovering from trail des cerfs.

  41. For this weekend: one four-hour mountainbike endurance session on my home trails, about 1,100 metres of total elevation gain, mostly on single trails, without riding anything twice. And the one skills session, would like to make some progress on endos in tight switchbacks.

  42. Ryan B

    With this week’s late-season snowstorm forcing me indoors, I’ll be Zwifting.

  43. KK

    Bike ride around Neusiedler See, ca. 100 km

  44. Jen Vandenberghe

    I will be doing the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island with my girlfriend. This will be our last trip after 18 months of adventure in Canada!

  45. Panos

    First swim of the year!

  46. Rob

    A slow 10k on Saturday and an even slower Duathlon on Sunday.

  47. Xavier

    Challenge Vercors!

  48. Granger

    Riding with my youngest on the local MUP.

  49. Kevin Dwyer

    Taper down run before next weeks Caster bridge half marathon

  50. Gerard Dypiangc

    Long run solo and short run with my daughter.

  51. Carlos Vazquez

    Easy run on Sunday. Plenty of house work to do as we settle into a new place.

  52. Reinier Hensen

    a 5k buildup run after a week of not running

  53. Eugenia

    Saturday: 40 mile ride, Sunday: HIIT Workout

  54. Pierre Strontal

    Gravel riding on saturday, and some more gravel riding on sunday. Also a not-so-athletic-but-definitively-awesome trip to the pool with my 4 years old son.

  55. Idan

    Running the annual Mountain to valley relay.

  56. Maurice

    A long run over the hills. Beautiful weather today…

  57. Torstein

    Getting ready for a rainy Sunday morning ride.

  58. Randy Miller

    Traveled to San Diego for the Beach & Bay Half Marathon

  59. PatrikT

    I’ll run a 5k and do a TrainerRoad session.

  60. christian Olgaard

    baby swim & hinking – hopefully biking as well

  61. Ricci Antonio

    107 km on a century race

  62. Ville

    Uphill trail running

  63. Krishna D

    Hopefully a 6 miler sunday morning…..

  64. Jay sinclair

    Just getting back into some structured training after resting up following my first 100 mile run, the Thames Path 100 from London to Oxford.

  65. Matt Noestheden

    Does chasing around 2 kids count as exercise?

  66. Ulyana Zorina

    I planned to go for a ride, but it’s heavy raining. So it’ll be more like swimming with a bike.

  67. Colin Hayes

    50-60 mile bike ride on Sunday morning as part of my C2C training.

  68. Karthik Subramanyam

    Two rides this weekend. One 25 miler to get used to my new Gaerne Stilos + Speedplay Zero combo (coming off my mtb eggbeaters), and another 65 miler tomorrow to give them a more thorough shakedown through some hills (~5k feet climbing)

  69. Richard Case

    Royal Berkshire 10k…flat and fast.

  70. Graeme Cooper

    Oncall at the hospital, the ultimate endurance event

  71. alex

    First ride after a terrible flu : this will be e real challenge !

  72. Nate

    Just got off the trainer and a little Zwift. Time to run tomorrow! Jealous of all of the people who are off work and can do some extended time!

  73. Henrik Forsell

    This weekend I ran the world’s biggest half marathon. Next one is a rest (marathon soon) and family travel weekend.

  74. Vadim Trainin

    I will do my long and slow ride ……

  75. Imre

    Mostly strenght and core training, I did all my runs during the week.

  76. Simon Purdy

    MAy 20 – my Birthday… A 5km local parkrun..then Sunday 17km LSR

  77. Bostjan Bajc

    Playing with my children and my Bond…not James, just Bond (My dog breeds Tosa-Inu)

  78. Mick

    Visiting Stockholm and doing the 3rd 5k run

  79. Paul Waye

    So far my only sporting activities have been watching my 11yr old daughter’s field hockey game. But I plan on a 10k run later

  80. Bangkok heat and humidity means not a very physical weekend for me, so I’m thinking a day of the “Video Game Workout” is in order: pick a game (this weekend is Saints Row IV for me) and set a timer for 50 minutes. Play the game until the timer goes off. Then do 10 minutes of simple body-weight exercises like pushups, squats, lunges, etc. Repeat all day until I’m done with gaming for the day. :)

  81. Simon rimdal

    10 km easy run

  82. Martin

    Returning from an Achilles Injury, so my first run planned today in 3 months. Hopefully a very uneventful slow 5k

  83. James Wilson

    On holiday and hoping the sea is warm enough for a bit of open water swim practice

  84. Harm

    Unfortunately none

  85. Lutz

    First an hilly bike ride on Saturday, than easy 10k on Sunday.

  86. Elvi

    Some cycling and gym training fore me

  87. Ed

    3 x 14 mi hilly, bike loop

  88. Rain

    Temporun on Sunday and short cycling round on Sunday. And then later in the evening will practice cycling with my 5 year old daughter.

  89. Sean

    Girls On The Run 5k (finished 3rd).

  90. Wilkor

    Cycling&run

  91. Marcello Araujo

    I am running a long path…..

  92. Maxbre

    Hi Ray,
    A hort swim and a 40 km bike for the weekend…
    Ciao

  93. Johan

    The weather is nice and sunny: I will definitely be going for a 10 kilometer run today (Sunday).

  94. Beth

    A “long” run…I’m coming back to training after a c-section for my first baby, so things are shorter and slower than before (not to mention much more sleep deprived!)

  95. jae javillonar

    Resting from Gulf Coast 70.3 last week :)

  96. MICHAEL D LEE

    Running around in Oakland for a few miles

  97. Ryan

    I’m having a relaxed weekend so I’ll simply be running 2x 12-15 km and spending some quality time with the TV watching Tour of California and the Giro.

  98. Judith

    Running 10.3 km in the Dreilaendererlauf in Basel this morning. Sunny day, looking forward to it.

  99. Jesús P

    40km bike on Saturday
    1mile competition in my town + some additional mileage post race

  100. Mathias

    Exploring the woods with my 4yo