Team Geared Up

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DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) It’s right up there with all the things you have to do before you die. It’s one of the classic stage races. It has all the ingredients of an incredible endurance event; the heat, the struggle, the dunes, the self sufficiency, the mangled feet and the tor[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’ve blogged before about how some of our gang are heading to China for the Gobi March. It’s not long to go now and training with their heavily laden backpacks has been going surpisingly well, it doesn’t seem to have sapped their speed at all! Thi[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Deep Water Soloing World’s blog, having been very quiet for a while, has a post up detailing the forthcoming festivals this year. the most unusual? A soloing festival above a lake on a manufactured wall! I’ve heard it all now :) Still though, having se[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) 600 miles cycling around Ulster seems like a long way. But with no gears?? Well they’re doing it for charity so we’ll forgive their madness this time…. This year sees the re-launch of The Ulster Way, a 600-mile long-distance loop route around Nort[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Irish Ultra Runner Tony Mangan flies out to Brno in the Czech Republic today to compete in the 48 hour race where last year he broke the 48 hour indoor record, as reported by Athletics Ireland. The event is likely to feature ‘live’ on the race website which has[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Planet Ultramarathon brings us this story about the Irish 24 hour running champion Dara O’ Kearney: Dara O’Kearney has made a good start to the year by beating a high quality field in the European Deep Stack Championship held in Drogheda over the weekend. A[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I know I’m obsessing about all things marathon these days but I just had to link to this story: The Adventure Blog gives us the Forbes Traveler’s great list of the World’s Most Breathtaking Marathons. Really this list is incredibly inspirational. I[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - Ah, electricity.  One of those natural and fundamentally important parts of our everyday life. The greatest achievement of man could arguably be our ability to harness it and in an increasingly electronic focused society it hard to get away from, even in the [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) If, like me, you made a decision last year to run a Spring marathon, right about now you’re probably winding down and dreaming about all that free time you’ll have when the real taper starts. As every good piece of marathon literature tells you, it’[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) If you’re kicking back at home, starting the long weekend early you might want to check out the Paul O’ Grady Show on Channel 4 this evening at 5pm: Bear Grylls is a guest. Probably plugging his new show which starts this Monday 24th March at 9m: Bear Gr[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team geared Up) Now here’s the kinda adventurous spirit we love round here: imagine your first marathon. Imagine the kinda scary trepidation that went along with it. The savage training and the constant doubts. Then imagine that you will be competing in the world’s cool[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - This first one is probably one of the strangest hybrid devices I’ve ever seen. It’s called the SkidScooter and its an “amphibious scooter”. The idea is that its a device that can help you get across two different environments. It is a k[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) If you’re injured at the moment you might want to learn to hide or control your angry side. I read about this over at Multidays: it’s the first controlled experiment to measure how long angry people take to recover from an injury compared to the not-so-a[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Ok, so this is part III (see part I Gran Paradiso and part II Castor). This should get you in the mood for the Summer that’s not far away! We left off in Gressoney la Trinite near the Swiss-Italian border having climbed a great route on Castor. Back in our little [...] Read More »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Nicolas Favresse has a very interesting discussion up on Planetmountain.com (homepage link) at present about the impact of dry-tooling on rock. It’s an interesting discussion, and thankfully something that we don’t have to deal with here in Ireland. W[...] Read More »