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. Valère

    I’ll try a really cool post injury ride.

  2. Kyle Coelho-Herron

    Cycling in the morning, nap, pizza party with some friends, evening run.

  3. Attila

    run, and maybe start the cycling season if weather lets me

  4. Muhammad Zulfakhar

    It’s a rest weekend for me , but will be cleaning the house with family , an athletic adventures indeed !

  5. Marek

    I hope to get some hill running

  6. M3

    Going for a 10k trail run, sunny, 10 C

  7. Åsmund Soldal

    Ran a 31km trail/road hybrid race in Oslo on my birthday (20th)

  8. Steven Agar

    Parkrun Saturday, then long run Sunday.

  9. Asia

    I plan short bikeride with my kids :)

  10. Jordi

    Got a bit of knee pain lately, so just a long easy run Sunday morning, and if the knee behaves some light walking to keep a little bit active.

  11. Alo

    5 hour rogaine in a beautiful small island

  12. Adam

    Long weekend run in my local park :)

  13. Bart K

    2hrs/30″ brick

  14. Chris

    Lazy Saturday and easy swim on Sunday. Would totally get the FR935 if I win :)

  15. Hussam

    It’s getting hot now, so I’ll go for an early bike ride. 50 to 60km tops.

  16. Marcin Rodziewicz

    I completed a 2-hour brick workout on Saturday and I’m going to Zwift in the evening.

  17. Michael Polak

    Running 5k after being injured

  18. Harald Bootz

    a bit of running, and a bit of cycling

  19. Ben

    Trying to take advantage of the good weather, clean air with an early morning run.

  20. Lee

    Walking and riding the trails around my new home in Arizona

  21. Martin Løvik

    I´ll be running a 20k race on saturday!

  22. Edoardo Silvi

    it would be cool to start my triathlon life with such a gift

  23. The weather was supposed to be quite rainy so I took Friday off to do a 170km ride in my Ironman training plan and then I would have the weekend for recovery That means a easy 10k run and some recovery ride on the trainer.

  24. Andrew L

    A nice hilly ride today and then into the pool after work tomorrow!

  25. ibrahim

    long run and pizza

  26. Yodi

    Did the zwift e-fondo at 1-4am sunday wee hours. This morning helped a friend move apartment, will run behind the youngest child riding his balance bike this aftenoon to sew our city annual triathlon a couple km away.

  27. Karri K.

    Yesterday I went on a group run along the route of an upcoming half marathon in surprisingly warm weather, so might just make today a rest day.

  28. Abigail Gordon

    I’m going hiking through the mountains of Turkey. Taking my favorite black diamond pack and going to break in my hiking boots.

  29. Phil Simpson

    Trying to beat my Richmond Park Lap (London) segment PR this weekend.

  30. Mark Lever

    Park run 5km Saturday then 50km bike on Sunday

  31. Shane Sullivan

    On the Gold Coast in Australia going to Blues on Broadbeach music festival. Which isn’t really exercise if you don’t count lots of walking and dancing.

  32. Lis

    Packing to fly out to Spain, a few warm weather runs while over there!

  33. Thomas

    Saturday: 14K trail run, followed by 3K Open Water Swim (link to youtube.com)
    Sunday: 1 hour of run intervalls.

  34. Jan Lin

    Running my first 10km race of the year.

  35. Ales Kramarsek

    10K sunny run :)

  36. Steve Reid

    Getting the MTB out from a prolonged break!

  37. David Horn

    I’m off to ride a chunk of Switzerland on a borrowed bike in the sun.

  38. As I just injured a tibial tendon, the program shifted from long bike and long run to double swim weekend

  39. Pavel Vrtik

    Rockclimbing training session with a noce girlfriend and then 10k run with my son for recovery!

  40. Stephan Joos

    since Winter seems to be really defeated down here in Bavaria (Germany), i’m going for a long ride with my road bike

  41. Koen Creusen

    Did a relatively long run (15k) on Saturday, and today will be a shorter run with the GF, and time allowing, a bike ride!

  42. Scott Simpson

    85km roadie with a bunch of mates. I even managed to miss a pedal clip at a rest stop and fall off in full view of a switched on GoPro. Outstanding.

  43. Anders F.

    Last > 30km lång run before Stockholm Marathon in two weeks time.

  44. Dave Woodmore

    Gym on Friday then a long tempo run Saturday followed by a swim.
    Rest on Sunday!

  45. Taff Tanner

    Just heading home after crewing for North Norfolk 100 Mile Time Trial – took over 500 fotos of all the speedsters and met Jasmjin Muller, Queen of Zwift!

  46. Francesco

    Mountain biking in the beautiful country where I live ?

  47. Carlos

    I am in the last training block before my first Ironman (Challenge Roth), so yesterday I did a 32 km long run, and today I’ll drive to the race location and do a long ride at the bike course.

  48. Simon

    3 hours mountain biking and 20 km trail run

  49. Wilko

    Recovery run of my 2h:57 marathon!

  50. Chris Thurston

    Bit of indoor Zwift action for me =)

  51. Daniel B

    This weekend I’ll go for a medium-long trailrun in one of the many parks in Victoria (Australia), haven’t decided which park!

  52. Elina

    several hours dog walking

  53. Goran

    Saturday – gym strength training, 12k run
    Sunday – active recovery – 9k walk in the national park

  54. Gyula

    Just some straightening, until doctor says differently… :-/

  55. Max

    3 hours mountain biking

  56. Scorp

    After years of Run-Abstinence due to a shin splint that wouldn’t go away (I’m talking like 8 year!), I have finally been able to recover from it this year and slowly (you wouldn’t believe HOW slowly) started running again. I even managed to get my wife hooked on running (she is a fitness instructor, but doesn’t like cardio *g*). Planed to have my first 10k this weekend. Would have taken my kids in the Thule Chariot CX2 with me (as we often do). Unfortunately, we are all recovering from a cold which knocked all of us out a couple of days ago. So, no 10k for me yet… :-(

  57. George C

    Saturday: Ate a large pizza
    Sunday: Going to cycle hoping to burn that large pizza :)

  58. Deano

    Walking to get over jet lag after flying home this weekend.

  59. Piotr Dejer

    Plan a 50k bike ride and a late evening light 10k run and maybe swim – standard triathlon Sunday

  60. cyrille

    Nice ride in Vallée de Chevreuse with a friend.

  61. Richard

    The wife and I will accomplish 6 miles of interval running.

  62. Hilbert

    Going on a 10+ km run.

  63. Randy

    i’m training for my next marathon this weekend

  64. Duncan Martin

    I did my first team time trial training yesterday! Laps were approx 10 miles long, and we did 2 (after riding out to the course). I hung on for the first one and then got spat out the back of the second. If I want to keep up I need to get faster, so following wheels is more comfortable and I actually get to recover a bit between stints.

  65. Shmuel Raviv

    I was cycling with my e-quip team

  66. Max Raykevich

    5x1k on Saturday as the final speed work towards next werk’s 3k race, and 20k recovery run on Sunday.

  67. Alexander Serebryany

    Try to run after knee injure.

  68. Norman Isaacs

    Doing an easy 110 this weekend in prep for next weekends big ride.

  69. Milan Germovsek

    I’ll go a nice bike ride with a friend.

  70. Matt Cartlidge

    Couple of hours on the bike whilst my daughter is at her ballet class.

  71. Alex Muller

    I did a 5km parkrun in London on Saturday and am planning on a bit of strength training at the gym on Sunday.

  72. Sebastian Zender

    I was up to some mountainbiking in the french Vosges with a friend, but because of a cold it didn’t happen.

  73. Francois C.

    A good long hike in the jungle with the boys

  74. Björn Lager

    Running a few km in the nice weather in Stockholm.

  75. I will run in wood since our sea is infested by jellyfishes link to facebook.com

  76. Ein Radler

    Short tempo run (unfortunately no time for the usual bike ride)

  77. Tomislav B

    A tri super sprint race around local lake for me, and some endurance MTB training for my wife :)

  78. Nicolas

    I am going to do a 100k bike ride , in preparation of my century miles ride ….

  79. RM2000

    Just some hiking.

  80. carlos

    I will go for my 30 minute run and bike ride.

  81. ThorR

    A 10K training run followed by a couple of Ks with my daughter who is training for a cross country run.

  82. Glajda

    I might squeeze in a short run after work.

  83. Felix Köster

    Running a trail with fitness stops

  84. Thomas C

    I’ll be running in Paris both on Saturday and Sunday.

  85. Pete

    Dodging the rain, riding in Sydney

  86. Dirk R.

    My athletic adventures for this weekend are already over :) I did a 15k run yesterday and 40k on the bike today.

  87. Dave

    I will be climbing rocks.

  88. Matt

    Short run post injury

  89. Patricio Miranda

    A bike tour with friends on saturday and a super sprint triathlon on sunday

  90. Riding with my club near Paris

  91. Karen Meraw

    currently in Baltimore touring the city by running and bike

  92. Roger

    Riding miles to contribute to Strava monthly challenge

  93. Alex

    Please please please please please!

    The only exercise this weekend was a City2Surf.training run.

    Thank you again for the giveaways!

  94. Jay

    its a kids soccer marathon this weekend…. pretty sure it’ll feel like i’ve run two marathons by the time its over Sunday afternoon!

  95. Daniel

    Easy recovery run on Saturday morning followed by spectating at a large athletics event at my running club

  96. Peter

    Yesterday I went for a short but fast run aiming to get a good time on a specific Strava segment, and got into the top 20, as well as getting top 10 for another segment I wasnt specifically trying for! Happy Days!

  97. John

    I will be kayaking the Maine coast.

  98. Tobias

    My TomTom Spark needs a replacement ;-)

  99. I’ll try to climb the steepest climb near my home (21%) with my roadbike. Write a post about it.

  100. hakkinen

    just 48km ride today, as usual