Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting! Since Germany doesn’t have as many skiable/snowboardable mountains as say Switzerland they have been in the process of building several Snow Dome indoor snow spor[...] Read More »

On the 2nd of July, Zurich will hold its annual Ironman race event. The event is a triathalon consisting of swimming, biking and running in that order. The event begins with a 2 lap 3.8km swim through the Zurich lake starting and finishing around the same area. Next is a 3 lap 180km bike ride aroun[...] Read More »

The Round Ireland Swim Expedition Team, will attempt to relay swim around the Island of Ireland, to become the first team in history to circumnavigate the country by swimming. They have planned for the swim to last 28 days from the 2nd of July to the 30th of July. Taking 4 rest days during that per[...] Read More »

A group of 10 Irish mountain climbers set a new record last week when they completed climbing 26 of Ireland’s highest peaks in just under 100 hours, breaking the previous record by a massive 69 hours. The group was taking part in the Ulster Bank ‘100 hour challenge’ and attemptin[...] Read More »

The race is hotting up with the winners expected home sometime over the next 24 hours. It is looking likely to be an American based team taking honours. IrishAR Inov-8 are doing great sitting mid-table at present, with a good few more days of racing ahead of them. After days of struggling to surviv[...] Read More »

Irish Inov-8 Photos of the team in preparation before the race begins. [...] Read More »

We have and Irish team competing the in form of IrishAr Inov-8. The team members are be Eoin Keith(captain), Vanessa Lawrenson, Barry Minnock and Evan Ryan. We will keep you updated daily on how the team are progressing. Today marked the end of a frenetic time for Primal Quest Utah. The 89 teams [...] Read More »

Just interested to see if anybody out there has ever tried this Maffetone fitness workout before? Dr. Philip Maffetone was first to use this technique with atheletes in the 1970’s. It has worked for the 6 time Ironman World Champion Mark Allen and Lance Armstrong also used this technique to ge[...] Read More »

I’ve manged to update my Flickr photostream. Here’s some of the best… [...] Read More »

Sorry for the lack of posting. I’m currently volunteer guiding in the Swiss alps to help out a staff changeover at the centre. Spent last night at the above hutte, 2690m above sea level. Not too high, but snow was fresh, so it was good. Posting will resume to a normal schedule on my return! Y[...] Read More »

I tested out a beta invite to Google’s Picasa web albums yesterday and I was mighty impressed. It’s great for ease of use. It made me wonder how long I’ll keep paying Flickr.com to keep my photos there unless they get some updates going! I saw this morning on Ogle Earth that you c[...] Read More »

Photo by Geared Up Spotted in a Dublin Pub last night. Text reads “2/1 only time you’ll score tonight.” My bet is 2/1 men’s accuracy improves dramatically by concentration. It reminds me of the first one of these I saw in a pub in Switzerland (Des Alpes in Kandersteg) who h[...] Read More »

Google Earth 4 has launched with vast improvments, including textured models from sketch up. Download it now for free [...] Read More »

Photo by Geared Up (Howth, Co Dublin.) Only rescue news of the weekend I have is: RTE News have… A man was seriously injured in a fall from a cliff on the Co Waterford coast early this morning. The man fell into the water at Newtown Cove in Tramore at around 1am. He was picked up about 30 min[...] Read More »

Photo by Geared Up On this mornings run. -No other news I’m afraid…. it’s a slow news day! [...] Read More »

Is this the future of the pack horse/yak on expeditions? Really impressive, isn’t it. Especially when he kicks it over. (Watch the last 20secs especially). [...] Read More »