Hi All!
Thanks for finding the Valentines Giveaway page! As I said in the Newsletter, this is a giveaway just for you, Newsletter Readers! Ray won’t be sharing this on Twitter or any other various forms of social media.
I’m sure you’re impatiently awaiting “WHAT IS THE PRIZE??”
The winner will get a $500USD credit to CleverTraining.com, our 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. Seriously. Well anything on their site.
How to enter:
Simply leave a comment below. Preferably an idea to peer pressure Ray into doing something romantic for his one and only this Valentine’s season. Otherwise, do be sure to leave some sort of comment more than just a word, as that sometimes leads to your comment getting stuck in SPAM. And no matter how much the Hawaiians try to sell it to you, there ain’t nothin’ good about SPAM.
That’s it. Go forth and good luck!
The giveaway entry period will run through Thursday, February 14th, 2019 until 11:59PM US Eastern Time. Winner will be selected randomly. One entry per person.
hope you have a great valentines day thanks for the giveaway
Given my lack of romance skills, I was hoping for some hints myself!
Come on, Ray! How about some extra love for The Girl on V-Day!!!
Hmmm, how about a winter getaway to a warmer climate? ?
Love the newsletter!
Ooooh! I want one!
With 3 ladies in the house now, Ray needs to step up his Valentines game! .Although the Peanuts might be easy to please.
My husband always gives me a gift certificate to my favorite local running store for Valentine’s Day, and this year I’m also getting some gear from Oiselle.
I’m planning a romantic Valentines Day run with my wife…on Saturday. (Kids…Saturday is the best we could do.)
Ummm. Spam is delicious. I suggest Ray make a heart shaped cake out of spam. Pan fried is the bed although it will stink up your house for days.
Take a walk in the beach. Make the most of a rest day. Cheers!
A stay at a bed & breakfast is a popular Valentine choice with my wife!
Happy Valentine to you! Maybe spend an offline day each 14th’s a month 😉
Hi, i dont like to give advice to other people…
A walk in the woods.
Go on Ray, you know The Girl wants a romantic bike ride to a to go see a glorious sunset, followed by a super relaxing evening over food and wine. What’s stopping ya!
Keep up the great work
Couples massage is always a great valentines idea
Ray, why not make the girl some wonderful cupcakes – like she used to make in Paris??
Make sure you treat the girl to something nice for Valentine’s Day Ray!
Hoping to treat my pain cave to a new smart trainer!
This would make a great Saint Valentine’s Day gift for my wife. Seriously, for her!
-Guillermo
Hi, take Ray for a dive with the sharks.
Happy V-Day
Hey DCR – step away from the gadgets and hook your girl up.
Happy V-Day!
Hey Ray, give you wife a spa day, with no kids
A “no devices” 24 hours. No watches, phone, or anything.
Valentine’s day is always a good excuse for chocolate!
Hey there! I expected to see more newsletter readers here, or nobody wants to comment first? 🙂
Who deserves it more than The Girl ?
Ray, don’t forget to shower your lovely spouse with love and goodies on Valentine’s day!
No ideas to share with Ray, my SO and I live 800km apart (and different EU states). And so it has been since we date (just after the last Valentine on a w/e!). Can’t help!
I was planning a date on zwift with my SO but I’ve got huge fever now, I can’t go to our lovely and very romantic date.
ETAP ASX is a great prezzie 😉
First comment. Tough decision for Valentines gift. The Girl likes to run, so some running gear seems nice (non tech), but this can backfire (Are you saying I need to workout more?). Go safe and buy a nice jewelry or spa day.
Thanks a lot!! 🙂
A night diving with White sharks?
Hope I’m the only one seeing this 😉
What a great idea!
A lovely dinner
In a pinch, Ray could go for a random pair of matching sports watches from one of those mythical drawer boxes. Fortunately, the cave is far out of range so he has to come up with something better.
Hope you both have a lovely St. Valentine’s Day! 🙂
If a sport focused plan, what about a run without the peanuts?
Full agreement on SPAM
Hi,
Just treat yourselves and I love every minute of it.
Cheers,
Adler
Thanks for putting this together, love the weekly updates!
Hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather!!!
Thanks for the love!
Yum $500 store credit! Hope you have a good time ok V day on a nice warm beach!
Hopefully use the voucher to buy his and her Garmin watches.
Why just one day to be romantic?
Offer to watch the kids so the girl can do a long run. And don’t give her any new watches to test either.
Definitely an evening out without the kids and maybe a kids free day!
I’m reading the comments for ideas also!
Thanks!
nice present for my wife 😉
Nice job on the newsletter! Jay
Oh wee! This would be the perfect way to surprise my wife with some new sports gadgets!
Making a pizza in Ray’s new pizza oven? ??
Ray, given how many great photos you have of all your adventures, perhaps a nicely put together ShutterFly (or other Photo book maker) of you and The Girl would be a nice romantic touch for V-Day?
This giveway is awesome, thank you Ray 🙂
Ray could be the most loving husband by purchasing you a pizza oven! 😉
Just last week I thought to myself “I should actually read the newsletters, there may be special stuff not on the website in it.” It’s like you read my mind!
Thank you very much for the super secret give away. I like to read the newsletter and get a little look behind the scenes.
OK – no flowers they’re to obvious and should only be given when they’re not expected.
That said, Ray, do something unexpected! It’s that you don something that counts not the act that counts.
That’s my ten pence worth anyway.
Oooh, a secrect giveaway. Count me in 🙂
Happy Valentines Day!!
The Girl does the accounting there needs to be more 5 random things that include I took the kids for the day and the Girl had a day to herself.
Newsletter fam 🙂
Hey! I lived in Hawaii for 3 years when I was a teenager back in the mid 1970’s. Spam is a food group there. And, it’s just canned ham. I don’t eat it very often, but I like it.
I loved your story about Ray and his back issues. I’m nowhere as good as he is, but I saw a bit of myself and my wife in that one.
Gifts and special attention on Valentine’s Day is important, but just as important are occasional gifts and special attention given randomly and for no particular occasion.
A run on the beach at sunset.
Have a nice day
Thanks for the opportunity! Ray, plan a fun day with the family in the morning, and a date night picnic for the two of you that night at home. Good wine, good food, nice music, and time to be silly together. ?❤️
I can think of nothing better than a Valentine Snowshoe Run with my one and only.
Hello!
I love, love, love the newsletter! Keep up the great writing and reviewing!
How cool is this?! My wife and I love food and wine, of course. So, we try to go to a nice multi-course dinner with wine pairings. Last year was a French menu. This year might be German. We’re not sure yet, but it’s several hours where we can just chat and relax.
Super secret valentines!
Tell Ray I already bought my SO a couple dozen roses…just to surprise her and let her know that I love her every day, not just on 2/14!!
I know I won’t win but happy valentine’s day! 🙂
Hello and Happy Valentines Day from Lower Alabama, the real LA.
Ray should take you for a romantic trailrun on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. Let me know when so me and my wife can join you. Oh wait… that kinda cancels the romantic part, right?
Yes!
Come on, Ray, just take her out to dinner and let her think she is more important than all your gadgets 😀
A romantic side by side ride on Zwift is the only way to go!
Something sweet
The season of love
That’s so sweet of Ray to give his love a brand new bike…
Ray, maybe do the chores and finally score that pizza oven when the weather gets better :-).
The Girl, thanks for writing the newsletter, it’s always a great read!!
Hi there, nice thing! Keep up the good stuff you guys are doing.
Love this secret giveaway!
What better place to find Valentine’s gifts for the loved one than DCrainmaker.com?
I want to go to there
Usually I would say that Valentine’s day is a pure invention from marketing and that there’s no need to celebrate it, but I guess this is not exactly what you expected? So yeah, common Ray, flowers and Champagne for a start, and then it’s all up to you! 🙂
Sorry no good ideas for Ray, my wife despises V day so I get a pass. How about a nice hug and I love you?!?
Thanks for the newsletter and give away, you guys are great!
Thank you, for the reviews and blog and all the info etc…
Hey Ray. I appreciate you might struggle to get sitters for the kids in Cape Town so cook the girl a romantic meal, light the candles and open a great bottle of SA wine.
Ray! Take the girl to Delft. Its a beautifull small city/town close to Den Haag. Its the right thing to do for Valentines. (i am not from here btw /s)
Oh and the prize, that would be nice too.
I think some fresh home cooked pizza would be perfect for Ray to cook for you with a nice bottle of something cold and fizzy you’ve kept from France!
This might come off as insane, but maybe you can do something together as a family for valentines day that does not involve sports tech. When is the last time you saw a good movie, or even a bad one and had fun making fun of it? Maybe even take a listen and watch the movie attached to an episode of the podcast How did this Get Made?
Roses are red
Strava is orange
Ah, crap! There’s nothing
That rhymes with orange
I love your below the fold musings!
More secret admirers?
I could buy my wife a lot of stuff with this!
Wow, the Girl is the best, take her at least for romantic dinner, romantic movie, romantic swim, romantic run, do not forget romantically cycle! Add foot massage, cook her somenting good 🙂
Hello!
There’s nothing better than dinner and a movie, a rom com to be exact
great run!
Newsletter giveaway! Hooray!
Hello 🙂
Congrats on your top 5 finish!
happy Valentines’ Day
have a great valentine’s day!
Sounds like you already had your Valentines get away last week.
What a fun giveaway! Thanks!
Haha, Nice idea from The Girl! Maybe I’ll get a chance of winning with her as I’ve managed to loose every Ray’s giveaway since I started to read the blog 6-7 years ago!
But: here it this… he could find a nice Triathlon and do the registration for you. This will give you the boost for extra training! Extra present: take care of the Peanuts for the 2 days prior to the event to make sure you’re in perfect condition to put in a great result! Which is what he normally does of course… right?
Ha and for Valentine’s day, hope he’ll get the croissant for you in the morning,… always nice to start the day with some croissant, right?
Hello and thanks for the Newsletter 🙂
Valentine’s Day is just an excuse to be lazy for the rest of the year. So just do it the other way around.
Roses are red, violets are blue, I’d love to win the prize, and…that’s all I got. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Does posting first increases the chance of winning?
A quiet dinner with the family at home. Kids may be able to help. Save the dinner out for another night why battle the crowds.
Well, I’d hope by now that Ray would know by now to do something nice and romantic, but if not, shame on you, Ray.
Hope I win! Take The Girl out for a romantic midnight moonlight bike ride for Valentine’s Day!
Ray, you should buy her an outdoor pizza oven!
I’d love to be a winner
Hello Girl…thanks for sharing your adventures!
Make her some macrons!
Create the most en beloved Strava Artwork by riding a heart shape around your house AND whilst riding stop by your local flowershop for a large bouquet!
I’m just hoping for some snow on Valentine’s.
Hello
Hello and thank you for the give away. Have a great time in summer sun of South Africa. Get out to the skeleton coast in Namibia if you can as it’s amazing.
funny, the best valentine I get my wife is to have a day without me………..hmmm………maybe we’re approaching this wrong.
Telol Ray that he should get you a coupon book of personalized favours included inside a basket of Canadian memorabilia like a hockey puck, real syrup, a proper toque, etc…
I think you should challenge Ray to a romantic couples training fest for an upcoming race that’s something more than a 5k;). What could be more romantic than spending hours training together for a joint goal:)? Perhaps a half iron or something similar! Happy training and thanks for the opportunity!
Hello!
Hi there!
Ray should NOT get you gadgets! Flowers are the go, I don’t think he ever gives you any plus my last name means ‘flower’ as you might now from living in clog land now!
(I am somewhat of a climate refugee and moved from there to Australia – TDU city to be precise)
Cheers,
Laurens
Happy Valentines Day!
thank you the Girl & Rai!
What a nice surprise… Good luck to everyone…
His and hers pizza oven!
A home cooked meal after the kids go to bed
Cook and awesome dinner and lots of chocolate!!!
I promise to get something for my wife. *fingers crossed*
a nice day trip to Delft….
Get her a ring!!!
Perhaps a pizza oven???
Have Sean Sako serenade her, while drinking a bottle of Le Gentleman
Great idea!? I love the newsletter; keep up the work and let yourself be spoilt this Valentine‘s..
A good ol’ fashion “hello”
Sorry, no good ideas for Ray… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I am so glad you are enjoying Cape Town! I, like you, really wish that running after 2.5 and 1.5 year old peanuts was good for fitness! Sunday’s triathlon proved to me it isn’t. As for valentine’s a kid free night would do it for me. Enjoy the rest of your stay!
Making something is my preference as a gift both as a giver and receiver. I usually cook something involved.
All happiness to you both on Valentine’s Day.
I’m just here for the suggestions because I am in need of ideas for Valentine’s day.
Thanks!
Hi! Seen you’re already in South Africa I would say this already counts as a very romantic scenery.
So to the girl, Ray might have planned this all along! @Ray I’m giving you some kudos upfront here, all you additionally need is a kind of non-gadgetary evening beside the beach with some very nice South African wine!
Enjoy!
If I would win, would get a female version of a garmin Fenix for my wife – as valentines gift!
Ray could make some nice homemade pizzas in a pizza oven for dinner! ;~)
Hi Ray, thanks for the giveway only for NL-readers!
Surely I’m not the first visitor?
Take some beautiful pictures of your wife and kids for Valentines. If she is like me, I don’t exist in family photos because I am the one taking them. It will be a treasured gift for years to come.
Thanks. I could really use this.
Giveaway time!!! Ray, please do something nice so The Girl doesn’t leave you and leave us readers without a weekly newsletter. I don’t care what you do, just do SOMETHING!
Flowers & a nice home cooked meal!
Howdy!
To Ray and the Girl, have a lovely Valentine’s day, and Ray, make sure to cook the Girl an amazing dinner (she made me say it, honest — but still…). Anyways, have a good one and thanks for your great work, both.
I fail to see how spam is anything other than a quality product.
More giveaways?? You guys are nuts! In the best way 😉
Hello !
Ray should definitely log a training with a heart shaped GPS track. What could be more romantic?
I always write my wife a poem that she has collected and saved over the years.
Happy Valentines! Ray – if you do buy something nice please buy two so I can have one to give my wife!
Hey. Always enjoy reading the newsletter.
I disagree. Fried Spam with a fried egg on a toasted bagel can be delicious! And if you cut the Spam in the shape of a heart it can be very romantic. 🙂
Loving the website, and loving the newsletter, always good to hear what is going on, especially at times of radio silence from Ray 🙂
Thanks!
I love running and cycling gear almost as much as I love beer; which is the reason I run and bike…
No spam for me thanks 🙂
Flowers and homemade din er! Happy wife = happy life!
Make a nice meal.
Hello Ray. Love the reviews!
I’ve got Lindt Chocolate for my wife, but what can Ray do for you? I would offer to babysit, but I don’t think that would work (we’re going out for dinner)! That said if you need a baby sitter, Ray would just have to ask and one would appear!
Concert at Kirstenbosch might work (is there one?)
If you’re still in south Africa…have Ray take you to Hogsback for valentines day! 😉
Yeah! I wanna win!!!!
Need more giveaways!
I have missed the last two, it would be great if…
I’m not romantic enough to think of anything right now, so I agree with whatever you’d suggest
If the whether allows it, a walk in Domburg (Zeeland province) is a nice romantic thing to do!
keep it going!
Happy Valentines!
The number one reason I read the newsletter is for the “In-Depth Thoughts from The Girl”. I do read through the beginning of the letter, but it is “The Girl” section that I find most interesting. Even better than the 5 Random things I did section. Ray is lucky to have you all year not just Valentine’s Day. He should celebrate you every day.
Peace.
How about going for a nice curry? You’ll get the hots for each other for sure.
This is very unusual that I’m the first commenter…
Anyway, love the newsletter. Keep it up!!!
Flowers. Always remember flowers 🙂 Oh, and pick me for the giveaway 😉
Thanks for the giveaways!!
Happy Valentine’s Day to you both!
This might sound cheesy…but I think you’re really grate.
Valentines day? Give the girl a nice wearable! (Like jewelry that is)
Ray should make his three favorite girls a great dinner and then give out foot massages!!
Nothing more romantic than finishing quest for pizza oven greatness 😉
c’,on ray, take the mother to your children on a nice dinner… hire a baby sitter, keep the phones off the table, and bring a few of your favorite photos to reminisce together. We like to look at our dating and wedding photos. ‘
Happy Valentines Day, Yall!
HZ from Texas
I hear chocolate and rom-coms make a pretty good gift for Valentine’s Day.
party!