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) - I spotted a story about the ownership of Rockall on RTE news tonight. I’d never even heard of it, but the photos excited me. As[...] Read More »

EDITOR (Team Geared Up) - We’d love a nomination :-) Ah go on… [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Here’s a brief update on the last trip to Siurana in Spain with Rob. Firstly, who’d have thought we’d spend the whole trip looking for the SUN while there?! Usually it’s the complete opposite with an almost allergic reaction to sun in Siur[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - “We can’t make your drinks” said the email… Really appreciate the invite, we are heading out to climb Aconcagua tomorrow and back the middle of jan. –Ian Damn - I’m jelous! The 2008 Irish Everest Expedition are off to South Ame[...] Read More »

EDITOR (Team Geared Up) - This email was sent to some readers this evening. Apologies about the replication. *Thursday Outdoor Adventure Drinks Reminder* Thank you for being one of 200,000 visitors to Team Geared Up blog < http://blog.teamgearedup.com> in 2007. We’re running at a 20% return-vi[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Well it’s 3am on Christmas morning and I’m finally back in Ireland (for 10 days before Asia!), had my Christmas Eve pints with mates and I’m ready for the Grandparents tomorrow now! This is just a quick chance to say to my TGU blogging team…[...] Read More »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I don’t usually replicate news from UKclimbing.com, however this one deserves a mention. Sport climbing has been accepted into the Olympics, provisionally at least. Now don’t get all excited and start preparing for 2008, or even 2012 for that matter -[...] Read More »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Here’s an interesting one while reading the climbing news on Kairn this morning. The ski resort of Les Deux Alpes has launched an avalanche simulator to let you experience what it’d be like - for 20 seconds that is. “The simulator has two cabins[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - The location for Primal Quest 2008 has been announced as Montana. The race will take place between the 21st of June and the 2nd of July. I checked the team list and the IrishAR team aren’t there. I wonder are they concentrating on a different race for next y[...] Read More »

VAIL, COLORADO (Team Geared Up) - Hi all, we’ve got an invite for you! TGU are having a readers meet-up on December 27th in Dublin, Ireland. We’d like to try and gather as many of our adventure readers in a bar together to celebrate Christmas and a great year of Team Geared Up. Thanks t[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Congrats to Tara! A new Irish Female Ironman record was set recently in Ironman Western Australia by Tara Nolan. Triathlon Ireland is planning on running a weekely Tara Diary in which she’ll share all her experiences including the event which allowed her to qu[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I love this list of ideas from The Gear Junkie (via The Adventure Blog). Of course even though it’s probably too late to buy anything on-line, it may be enough just to give you ideas?! Check out those earrings?! (Can’t see the adventurous angle other tha[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Last weekend at the Trail World Challenge in Huntsville Park, Texas, ultrarunner Helena Crossan stormed to a silver medal in the first running of the event. The 50 mile off road event was held in temperatures of over 30 degrees in a four loop course, accorinding to [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) If you’re planning you’re Christmas running events now, then here’s a place to start! Every year on St. Stephen’s Day (Boxing day) there’s a 10k hosted by Navan AC that I’ve ran a couple of times. It’s a fast course and for [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Finally got round to making some running plans for next year and so far I’m doing what I promised and avoiding the Ultras for a while at least. I’m going to head back to the Pyrennees for our annual trip to the Trail Blanch Font Romeu in January but I[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - Want to know about how snowboarding started and some of the major events involving snowboarding without having read several paragraphs of wiki articles? Then check out this brief yet informative vid, you might learn something you didn’t know… [...] Read More »