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Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting! DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Good luck to the TGU team of Robin, Charlie and Tanya taking part in the London Rat Race this weekend! If you’re in London watch [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Angela Mudge and Kilian Jornet are the champions of the 2007 Buff Skyrunner World Series. Mudge retained her crown from last year and Jornet becomes the youngest ever champion Skyrunner World Series at the age of just 19. He captured his title with an impressive 4[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - You got your Thursday Fluff, now for some Friday Links! Here’s the stuff that never made it to a full post this week. — Anti-theft rust stickers. Make your bike look rubbish! Love it! via GO Blog. — Aerial photography of the entire Irish coastline fr[...] Read More »

Great shape, style and handling, perfect for urban dwellers who want a little more fun and style in their commute, but not for the more hardcore. Awesome online service. Review of Bustin Boards 41 inch Complex Longboard, Hoboken, New Jersey, USARated as 4/5 on Sep 27 2007 by Alx Cahiz ZURICH, S[...] Read More »

CORCAIGH, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - I’ve been quite busy this summer. I admit I have been a terrible team member here at Team Geared Up. I really didn’t have time to sit down and give any post a good think through. Plus I’m a very lazy man when it comes to some things! That is w[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - TGU are on Jaiku.com MicroBlogging site as channel #tgu. Follow us there if you Jaiku yourself. I’m @rgb, Alex is @ALXtreme. Feel free to add me anyway! -Robin- [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Pat Phelan from Cork, Ireland, emailed me this morning to say MaxRoam is now live. This is a truly global project for all world travellers, backpackers & tourists! This is “The Sim That Doesn’t Know You’re Travelling”… MaxRoam lets y[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Can I do some fluffy links even if it’s not Friday? Sure I can, it’s good to share…… so here goes: Runners World do kit lists and here’s one for (beginner?) adventure racers. I reckon there’s a lot more stuff involved for the seri[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - As I posted on TGU in 2005, after hearing Simon Anthamatten speak at the Kandersteg Ice Climbing Festival about his 7 new lines on the Eiger North-face in one summer and seeing him climbing I was truly taken by him. Amazing character, although it helps if your ‘d[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - I love the idea as a training tool, but this version has been made for kids, not climbers. DigiWall is a climbing wall that has pre-set routes that light up (the holds actually light-up) to mark them. The grips are touch sensitive so it know where on the wall you are. [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - I bought myself a yellow/black Suunto Vector yesterday. Some of the features on the watch are great. Not that i know how to use it fully yet. It took me a while to figure out just how to set the correct time, but once i looked at the manual it was easily done̷[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Red Herring brings the KiteWing to my RSS reader this morning. The Kitewing is a wing shaped kite. Many people call it “the wing” for short, just because of its shape. You can use Kitewing with your skis, snowboard, mountainboard, ice skates or in-line skates e[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Despite the bike brakes failing through a pedestrian crossing and one of us putting a scratch down the side of a car with the handle bars, things went better than expected. The blinding reflective t-shirts of TeamGearedUp.com were out roughing themselves up a little bi[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The mountain running season is kinda slowing down about now and the last of the Leinster Championship races was held yesterday on Croghan Mountain. Bit of a hike to get there but it was worth it for the type of run; lots of trail, ups and downs, heathery sections and[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog)- The expedition earlier this year, by a large team of doctors, to place members of their team on top of Everest and also take blood samples along the way will be shown as a documentary on BBC. Tonight (23/9)the first hour long part will be on BBC2 at 8.00pm and the[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Today in London was the Great Gorilla Run! This is where you fundraise £400 for charity and then get given a gorilla suit and have to run a race around the streets of London. Nuts! I caught the above photo of them crossing London Bridge above our boat! Map: There wer[...] Read More »