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In Depth Product Reviews
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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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My Photography Gear: The Cameras/Drones/Action Cams I Use Daily
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The Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List
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i’d like to get a cycliq12! so i can show my wife how epic my rides are….
or not so epic.
A new trainer please!
Santa DCR please bring me a Favero Assioma. I’ve been a good boy this year and want to further improve my training! ;)
Fenix 5s plus would be nice ?
Vector 3s/Favero Assioma
Maybey the garmin fr935 or a down payment for the new BKool smart bike ??
I got a pair of BT headphones, but I currently only have an old Sandisk BT MP3 player… So I would get a nifty new Garmin watch with Spotify integration…
Bert
maybe anything to partner with my 645m -hrm, shoes, bt earphones.
I want a fenix 5
fēnix 5 Plus
A pedal power meter…
Adesso non avrei dubbi…sceglierei un tacx Neo2…
Per adesso auguri a tutti di buone feste!!!
I would love to upgrade my Suunto fitness to a Garmin with integrated GPS. As it turns out, I underestimated my fitness interests when I purchased the Suunto!
Probably a FR 645. My 230 is starting to look pretty old.
I really need a Fenix 5+ to replace my dying xt910 ????
Garmin Bike GPS and mount
I would get a smart trainer, probably the Kickr Core because I am currently building a house and also two weeks ago my wife gave birth to our second child, so I just can‘t find the time to go riding outside at the moment.
New running watch with music and bone conducting headphones if enough money left.
I’d like a GoPro, Santa!
Treated myself to an Elite Direto which for the life of me I can’t get to calibrate… So I guess I’d like a Fenix or garmin 520 and some lessons in Direto calibration
Sure would love the Assioma power meter! Then I won’t be married to a single wheel set! Thanks!
I’d get my husband the new Fenix 5X because he deserves something as amazing as he is. He’s taking his vacation this week to move 20 tons of rock into our back yard. He isn’t asking me to help because he knows I have 25 days to my first marathon and doesn’t want me to get hurt. Last year this same time he painted our house.
I would get a GoPro. Would love video some of my training for an ultramarathon and trail running , as well as riding my cross bike on some local desert singletrack!
A Garmin fenix 5 plus!!!!
I’d get a Wahoo KICKR Core or new KICKR trainer.
I would really like a Fenix 5 x+ for those mountain adventures!!
I’d have a Garmin forerunner to replace the 235 I seem to have run into the ground!
Garmin 735 cg for swim bike run
I’d get a Wahoo KICKR Core or new KICKR trainer or I’d get a new Tacx Neo or Tacx Flux 2.
Definitely the Favero Assioma!
Garmin running watch, my current one has died. And that during the Christmas Holidays, so sad right now…
$500 would go straight toward a Fenix 5 Plus! My old Fenix 3 is crushing me with having to manually upload my TrainingPeaks workouts. What I am? A Neanderthal?!
I’d get one of a Wahoo or Tacx high end trainer!
Pedal power so I have power on my road bike, plus I’m fat and I need to fix that!!
I’d use it toward a new Wahoo Kickr Core. Looking to upgrade from my Cycleops Magnus to something a little more silent and direct drive.
I will get a power meter, since it seems I’ve been training completely wrong:(
Probably a new trainer or perhaps a power meter.
Hi, I would get a Garmin 520+ for my bike, because it would round out tracking my regimen. Just got the Garm scale for xmas. Have a 735 for my runs.
A new watch to replace my tomtom spark
I would like a Garmin FR935 as an upgrade from my 735xt.
Power meter to get training right.
I’d love a Garmin Fenix 5+. Best looking watch for me!
I would get an fenix 5 plus, so I wouldn’t get lost anymore when doing trailrunning.
I can’t decide between a power meter or a smart meter. I’ll think on it.
I would get Kickr Core because it’s silent and I don’t want to disturb my neighbors with the noise from my old trainer anymore.
Let me think…
a bike trainer or a cycle computer?
Suunto 9 G1
I would get a power meter for my CX bike. Road season is over in the northeast, time to hit the trails!
Garmin Fenix 5
I ‘d replace my old Forerunner with a Fenix 5 plus.
tough choice.
let me win and I’ll tell you if I’m on the Hyperice Hypervolt side rahter then picking new running sunglasses for me and my bf
Garmin 520+ so i can use bikeradar.
Some Garmin gear….always can use more Garmin gear.
Some sort of tech watch. Torn between my love of running naked and needing to know when I can stop.
Smart trainer (Kickr Core) or action camera. No wait, power meter! But then again… Oh, the decisions one has to make…
GoPro 7 Black for me!!
Jumping from a standard trainer to a smart trainer is my objective for 2019. Pricing has really hindered me from pulling the trigger, however the Wahoo KICKR CORE is where I have my sights set!
A difficult choice, I was already planning to buy the Edge 520 plus next year but it’s also tempting to upgrade my vivoactive 3 to a Forerunner 645. The former would help get out of my “comfort zone” (maps yay!) while the latter would get me that sweet training load feature I’ve been hearing very nice things about.
Wahoo KICKR, the “big brother” (e.g. not the CORE). I am upgrading from a wheel-on Tacx Bushido Smart to a direct-drive and the prep program starts in Jan’19. The older trainer will become a giveaway :)
Tell Santa Ray I would like a new Garmin Fenix or Forerunner. Thanks!
Oh how I’d love a Garmin Fenix 5+!!
Probably a power2max track crank :)
maybe an action camera
Power meter please for the new bike!
Probably get a crank based power meter for my road bike. It’s getting annoying swapping the pedals between the bikes
GoPro hero
I’d put this towards a new power meter.
I’d love a new wahoo bike computer, my Garmin has pooped the bed.
I’d love a powermeter!
Nobody thought of giving me a Stages power meter or an indoor trainer, thanks DCR and Cleverest training
Hmmm…maybe a new watch or GoPro accessory…
I think it would have to be a Suunto 9 to see if it can match up to my ageing Ambit3
Fenix 5X
I would like a pair of Garmin Varia Radar for my wife and I!
25 cases of GU!!
DJI Mavic Air – why not
A gopro hero 7 or fusion have to replace my rather old contour….
A new cross country mountain bike! (well at least money help buy one!)
I’d probably get a bunch of socks. Because I like socks. If there’s enough left over, I’ll consider a power meter.
Gopro Hero7, i want to start cycling blog on youtube <3
Running watch with MP3 player (long battery life)
a nice treadmill
I would get a GoPro hero 7 black to record rides!
New bike trainer! Maybe a core.
It would have to be a power meter so that I could make the most of TrainerRoad inside and track my power outside
Garmin Forerunner 645 because I like my 630, but I’d love an upgrade.
i’d get a new set of disc wheels since i’m upgrading to etap and need to move to 11 speed.
A GoPro Hero7 Black
I was dreaming of a wahoo elemnt…
Powermeter. Dont know if Stages, or Garmin… will think about it during weekend!
Great excuse to upgrade to a Fenix 5+.
New Tacx trainer so I can pedal during storms
Need me some mobile music for running, love to get a fenix 5 plus or the assioma powermeter or heck both.
A new Quarq PM of some sort, my Vectors can’t last forever.
Would love some road shoes.. am over 40 and never had a pair ever.. (any cycling shoes) have to do a 200km cycle in 6 months..ahh.
Would be the best present ever
An Assioma powermeter would be nice to improve my training.
Fenix 5 plus. I’m hoping a electronic device will keep me accountable for my 2019 goals!
Garmin pedals I think. But my targets are so ill-defined for next year that I’m likely to change my mind several times before it’s drawn…
A new Fenix 5 plus watch I’ve never had one.
Garmin Fenix 5X to track all the things.
I could use a new GPS watch that gets better battery life or a biking computer since I don’t have one.