Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Well deserved winner of yesterday's mini adventure around Kerry was Peter O' Farrell. An Turas Beag seems to have been well attended by lots of big heavyweight names in Irish adventure racing and mountain running so that's a really brilliant achievement by Peter. T[...] Read More »

EDITOR - We have a new TGU writer! Ed runs the site super site TrailRunningSoul.com and is going be doing a weekly wrapup here of the best AR news. Welcome to Ed! -- CHICAGO (Team Geared Up) - Kicking off what will be my weekly post on teamgearedup.com. I’ll be writing about all kind of [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Some photos from last Wednesday's IMRA Hellfire race are here. And really really well organised it was too I can tell ya!!!! ;-) We raised over 200 euro for Women's Aid with the TGU bars! Apologies for being too busy to be taking more photos but you'll get a sense[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - If you've got BBC2 TV channel there's some can't miss TV on tonight...Across the Andes: Beyond Boundaries - Fri 9 May, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm. A friend's sister, Julie who I've been in email contact with, is a star of the show! All of them are physically disabled, but th[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - The Irish team have issued a press release May 8th 2008 from Everest Base Camp. The mountain is open! Now... let's hope the rush of 285 climbers for the top doesn't cause a loss of life. Fingers crossed. Chinese Summit Puts Irish Everest Plans Back On Track Cli[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - This race is an introduction to adventure racing and will give the Mizen teenagers a feel for what is involved when the World Series Adventure Race, a gruelling five day challenge for the world's top adventure racing teams, comes to Schull, Ireland on June 17th. [...] Read More »

UPDATE 2215hrs - Video of torch on summit via Reuters: SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - An incoming report on the news today started like this... EVEREST BASE CAMP, China (Reuters) - The Olympic torch was lit at the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, the crowning moment of the Beijing Games[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Last year's IMRA Leinster League was a bit of a wash-out with rain but just look at the crackin' sunshine we're having now. Tonight's race is extra extra extra special......not simply because I'm race director for this evening's Hellfire and Brimstone mountain race[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Guide, Kenton Cool has begun posting photos of Ran Fiennes on Everest. They've begun acclimatising and the latest photos come in from Camp 2. You can follow them on the Mountain Hardware Sessions flickr stream which is well worth subscribing to. Why is thi[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Adventure racing heroes (well they claim to win everything!!) Tango and Cash appear to be half way through their attack on the Ulster Way, a 600-mile long-distance loop route around Northern Ireland, linking the current way-marked ways together with minor-road link[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - The Rat Race (I took part in the London Rat Race last year) is coming to Ireland. Great news. The much-loved event, having experienced runaway success in Britain, is now set to reach the shores of the Emerald Isle with 2 new and exciting events planned for Galway [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Olympic hopefuls, Dean Karnazes and a controversial torch aren't the only things making preparations for getting to China this Summer. A group of experienced Irish ultrarunners, I think I just might know one or two of them ;-) , have been making preparations for Ra[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Patagonia are having a 'monster sale' from Thursday the 8th of May till Sunday the 11th of May. The strange thing is that it's in a completely separate location. It will be held in Filmbase, Curved st, Temple Bar, Dublin. I'm not totally sure why they are havin[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - I watch Russell Davies blog for my interest in mobile technology and was pleased to see this little expedition of his. On his first (and last?) ascent of Ben Nevis he strapped Nokia N95 to his chest strap on his rucksack and set it to post live photos & GPS location [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Our girly team of adventure racers are raging we're missing Causeway Coast's event this weekend: the Cuchulain Challenge. We just didn't get our act together on time for all that would be involved. Here's what it's all about: The CuChulain Challenge is a relay e[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - We know less about our oceans than we do about Space. Google are about to shift things a little and produce a consumer tool (a version of Google Earth) that lets you fly around the seabed, through canyons and over buried treasure. Announcing Google Ocean: The c[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Don't let the fact that it's on the northside put you off (although the traffic for us Southsiders is usually pretty dreadful). Howth is one of the few races where you can park, race, shower and go to the prizegiving all in the one place! Nice view from the top too[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I've long been a fan of Trail Running Soul. It's one of those websites with lots of interesting stuff on all things to do with the outdoors and running! It'll cover ultra events and marathons and also has great pointers on nutrition and stretching and running inj[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Lots happening on the hills this weekend so thought I'd wish best of luck to all our internationals heading for the mountains. Firstly there's a bunch of hillrunners heading to the WMRA's World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge which this time is the Three P[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I'm only reading this now: last nights' Evening Herald had a full page feature on our own friend of TGU and SERIOUS adventure racer Avril Copeland. The feature is about Avril entering this year's Women's Mini Marathon and trying to raise funds for Pieta House, a [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) We all take the simple stuff for granted; running water, roof over our heads, hot showers. Well a few people who have reason to appreciate these simple pleasures have been telling National Geographic Blog about their "5 Best Things about Returning to Civilisation[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The first race in the most popular of the IMRA leagues kicked off last night with a race up Bray Head. The first race is always a bit manic with people signing up for the first time but eventually over 220 runners headed for the hill including our own Neal!! Result[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Those of you who read the metro like myself will have already seen this in Tuesdays paper but i thought it was worth a mention anyway. Carl Dionisio tied 18,500 out of date condoms together to make the bungee cord. I didn't think it would be that bad a stunt to d[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND(Team Geared Up) The first climber from the South side of everest has been sent packing after authorities found a Tibetan flag on the man. The banner was found on the man at B.C. Earlier this week Nepalese soldiers had been given the authorization that they are allowed to shoot pr[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Nigel Callender, sports scientist and of IrishClimbingCoaching has posted up on the discussion threads about an upcoming clinics he's involved with in Ballyorgan, Co. Limerick (Google Map link) with a Mountain Biking Specialist from the UK, Sally Thomas. [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Look what's part of next Monday's specials in Lidl! Who's gonna buy this I wondered? Well maybe someone who fancies doing their best James Bond impression on Killiney Beach? Saves effort and air for divers enabling them to stay down longer Compact, sleek des[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - The Mountaineering Council of Ireland have organised the Spring Meet once again, and it's being hosted on the 17th and 18th of May in Glendalough Wicklow. The all important bit is what's arranged: Saturday Arrival (Glendalough International Youth Hos[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Once the Experts class had kicked off on their early start in the water in last Saturday's Total Experience Adventure Race, me and the girls of Bronagh's Beeyatches started to get pretty worried about the way the wind was picking up on Blessington Lakes. With only [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Super Ultra Runner and Planet Ultramarathon correspondent Tony Mangan has just let us know of an incredible story of one man's quest to walk around the world in stages. Gary Hause stayed with Tony when he walked through Ireland on one of his stages. Check out Ton[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton left them here in their way to the South Pole, at the beginning of the last century. I've read Scott's biography (twice, in two different forms) and it is truly amazing that these physical objects are stil[...] Read More »