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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 was any access to areas we didn’t know about visible from the air. Passages through gardens, along cliff edges, right-of-way&#[...] 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 ov[...] 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 bac[...] 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 »