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! LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Following an email trail of a local coast guard unit, we were looking at Google Maps satellite view of the call-out area to see if there w[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - If you wish you could snowboard all year but can’t, check out the board, that truly needs its own category in board sports, that San Francisco based Freebord Manufacturing has developed. Though hard to learn (like learning to snowboard all over again but on[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Here’s your weekly dose of adventure links :-) It’s the stuff we didn’t get around to talking about. — We want to profile Irish Adventurers on a post-per-person basis. Can you suggest any hill runners, climbers, kayakers, AR racers we should feat[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Via mountaintraining.ie we’ve been alerted to the man who fell from 6m and somersaulted mid-air out of the fall to land on all-fours rather than his head! It was said his training as a ballet dancer helped him avoid serious head injuries! Coastguards said the man[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Reading Irish blogger Fatmammycat this morning, she tells us that she’s a huge fan of Crossfit. I love crossfit, (crossfit.com)I love it with the fervour I normally reserve for rum. Everyday I log on to their website and read what torture is lined up for that[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) This has to be one of the best adventure racing events of the year by all accounts. Gael Force West consists of two events; Gael Force 6 and Gael Force 12. Gael Force 6, the shorter of the two, will: follow last year’s course from Little Killary back to Westport, [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Remember those fake tattoos we all put on as kids, you used to get them free in cereal boxes. Someone transferred one onto my forehead when I was 14 during a school break, least to say I was too impressed! Well this is cool. PaceTat are making tattoo’s for runne[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Congratulations to Team Geared Up Blogger Aisling Coppinger who qualified to represent Ireland at the World Mountain Running Trophy! Earlier in the summer, Aisling ran for Ireland at the European Mountain Running Championships. Next week, Aisling travels to Switzerland[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Our helicopter crashes page is one of our most visited! So - without further hesitation, here is your ‘Top 5 Mountain Bike Crashes’. IN 5TH PLACE IN 4TH PLACE (I heard a snap). IN 3RD PLACE IN 2ND PLACE AND THIS HAS GOT TO BE 1ST PLACE @173km/h![...] Read More »

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - After what has been largely a disastrous summer for Irish climbing with a lot of rain, rain and more rain (as one friend put it with that amusing Irish curse, “the weather’s been sh&*e”), I thought I’d drag together whatever [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The RNLI have introduced a Digital Pager System hooked up to the internet. You can now download a desktop widget ‘RNLI Digital Pager’ and become a ‘Virtual Crew Member’ on a call-out. ‘Every time the pager pings onto the screen it means th[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Here’s another one for next year! The 10 mile Warriors Run is one of Ireland’s toughest competitive races held each year as part of the Warriors Festival in Co. Sligo. And you just missed it! Each year runners from all over Ireland (and various parts of [...] Read More »

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - After our recent link to Dave MacLeod’s write-up on his own thoughts on his new route, To Hell and Back, and all the problems that became associated with it, PosingProductions, one of the camera teams (and producers of the amazing E11 movie and fri[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Treasa featured as a guest poster on mulley.net this weekend. What caught my eye were Treasa’s fantastic Kitesurfing galleries shot in Sutton & Howth, Co Dublin, Ireland. This is where I grew up. Treasa’s official photography site is here treasalynch.c[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Via her blog page, we learn that Lindie Naughton’s book on running will be published this October. Lindie is an Irish journalist, runner and coach involved in Club running, hill running and orienteering. There aren’t many Irish running books so looking f[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - While The Great Climb was cancelled due to weather, Dave posts on his blog that he’s completed the Hell’s Lum climb that was to be done on the day. It’s the most dangerous lead I’ve ever done, and right now, I’m not sure exactly how I feel about it. Falli[...] Read More »