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! DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) My entire weekend has been consumed in various ways by the adidas Dublin Marathon. Firstly a visit to the pre-race expo where I tried t[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Last week i bought a new insulated jacket after i lost my North Face Redpoint Optimus. I decided on the Rab Belay Jacket which is slightly warmer that my previous one and has a water resistant pertex outer. The Summit 900 was on sale so i couldn’t pass up th[...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - BBC Scotland followed Ulric Jessop on the 2007 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding challenge. The X-Alps race is an 850km flying and mountain climbing race across the European Alps where competitors armed only with their paraglider must scale high enough to jump and get[...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - Ben Saunders clearly has a love of the cold. An unknown name to me until last week, I found out that Ben was the youngest person to ever ski solo to the North Pole. Born in 1977, Ben grew up in Devon, was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and liv[...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - So our incredible “When does Base Jumping Get Too Dangerous” post when viral, hi UKClimbing.com, hi AcidDog Forums, hi others! You brought a lot of traffic! Based on this obsessing, I’ve done a Top 5 worst Base Jumping Accidents videos to join [...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - I haven’t done one of these in a while so I’m going to start getting back to doing this regularly. I’m only going to do one this month but I think I’ll do them bi-monthly. In the mean time I’ve done this very large post of some o[...] Read More »

Uploaded with Skitch! NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Dal Riada climbing club, the group that most Irish climbers join after finishing their apprenticeship in university, had it’s annual gathering last weekend in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. Following on from previous years, it was basically[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Part 1 - Rodellar - Myself and 5 others headed off to Spain for our annual Euro sports climbing trip in October. Four days in Rodellar and 4 days in the Costa Daurada. Here’s a quick (well not so quick) trip-report/how-to of what we did. A Google map relating to[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - For the time being the shop at PlanetFear.com has been closed down. New owners are expected to buy the store soon. And shopping will recommence shortly. I’ve bought a few products off them in the past few years and i was always very happy with the fast and r[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - DCURCC reader, Sarunas, sent in a link to FreakClimbing.com, featuring an ascent the Nose of El Capitan in 2hr 45min 45sec in Yosemite. It took Warren J Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore 47 days to ascend the 1000m-high face in 1958, but the two German brothers[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Rob from Naas Wheelworx Tri Club has just recently become indoctrinated into our Wednesday Night Runners. As if running round hills in the dark isn’t lunacy enough he’s only gone and organised a couple of other events for runners and bikers alike. First[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, KILDARE (Team Geared Up) - O.k., so I was meant to be doing some ‘proper’ work and then this ended up in my Google Reader feed. Shred or Die, a new video site that’s been promoted by skater Tony Hawk, is live and kicking with a pile of extreme sports videos, mainly [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Forget the faff I wrote about my adventure race last Saturday and head over to Tango and Cash for a great account of what it was really like. Considering they’re primary goal was to get back on time for a shower (car park closed at 6pm SHARP!), they went on t[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, KILDARE (Team Geared Up) - What did all the adventurers do to deserve this?! We’ve already had Joe Simpson’s ‘Beckoning Silence’ last night, Beyond Endurance tonight, and now there’s a choice of items to watch on Wednesday. If you’re in Dublin there[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, KILDARE (Team Geared Up) - In what really looks like a route, 2 meters off the ground (that’s about 6 foot for the non-metric folks about there :), Chris Webb Parsons has climbed what is theoretically the world’s current hardest problem. I got tired looking at it….. As [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) If you’re entered for Monday’s adidas Dublin Marathon you’re probably at that lovely phase of training involving tapering, taking it easy and getting ready for carb loading! If it’s your first marathon or one in which you’re looking for[...] Read More »