Team Geared Up

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! This stage race is just one of the 4deserts races in the Racing the Planet series, which includes races on some of the “driest, hottest, windiest and coldest places on Earth”. One of the series is starting tomorrow:the Atacama Crossing in Chile is a seven-day, six-stage, 250-kilometer footrace across the Atacama Desert of Chile.

Check out the list of competitors here. It includes three people who intend doing all 4 of the series in one calender year; South African Paul H. Liebenberg, Dane Jimmi Olsen, and American Dean N. Karnazes.

Bets of luck to the Irish on the list, James Mc Quillan, Rossa O’ Donnell and Shane O’ Rourke. We’ll be keeping an eye on their progress!

-Aisling-

Image from Royal Engineers and sign is from Racing the Planet.