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) Don’t let the fact that it’s on the northside put you off (although the traffic for us Southsiders is usually pretty dreadf[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’ve long been a fan of Trail Running Soul. It’s one of those websites with lots of interesting stuff on all things to do with the outdoors and running! It’ll cover ultra events and marathons and also has great pointers on nutrition and stretching [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Lots happening on the hills this weekend so thought I’d wish best of luck to all our internationals heading for the mountains. Firstly there’s a bunch of hillrunners heading to the WMRA’s World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge which this ti[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’m only reading this now: last nights’ Evening Herald had a full page feature on our own friend of TGU and SERIOUS adventure racer Avril Copeland. The feature is about Avril entering this year’s Women’s Mini Marathon and trying to raise fund[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) We all take the simple stuff for granted; running water, roof over our heads, hot showers. Well a few people who have reason to appreciate these simple pleasures have been telling National Geographic Blog about their “5 Best Things about Returning to Civilisat[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The first race in the most popular of the IMRA leagues kicked off last night with a race up Bray Head. The first race is always a bit manic with people signing up for the first time but eventually over 220 runners headed for the hill including our own Neal!! Results[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Those of you who read the metro like myself will have already seen this in Tuesdays paper but i thought it was worth a mention anyway. Carl Dionisio tied 18,500 out of date condoms together to make the bungee cord. I didn’t think it would be that bad a stunt t[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND(Team Geared Up) The first climber from the South side of everest has been sent packing after authorities found a Tibetan flag on the man. The banner was found on the man at B.C. Earlier this week Nepalese soldiers had been given the authorization that they are allowed to shoot prote[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Nigel Callender, sports scientist and of IrishClimbingCoaching has posted up on the discussion threads about an upcoming clinics he’s involved with in Ballyorgan, Co. Limerick (Google Map link) with a Mountain Biking Specialist from the UK, Sally Thomas. Ke[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Look what’s part of next Monday’s specials in Lidl! Who’s gonna buy this I wondered? Well maybe someone who fancies doing their best James Bond impression on Killiney Beach? Saves effort and air for divers enabling them to stay down longer Compact,[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - The Mountaineering Council of Ireland have organised the Spring Meet once again, and it’s being hosted on the 17th and 18th of May in Glendalough Wicklow. The all important bit is what’s arranged: Saturday Arrival (Glendalough International Youth Host[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Once the Experts class had kicked off on their early start in the water in last Saturday’s Total Experience Adventure Race, me and the girls of Bronagh’s Beeyatches started to get pretty worried about the way the wind was picking up on Blessington Lakes.[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Super Ultra Runner and Planet Ultramarathon correspondent Tony Mangan has just let us know of an incredible story of one man’s quest to walk around the world in stages. Gary Hause stayed with Tony when he walked through Ireland on one of his stages. Check out [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton left them here in their way to the South Pole, at the beginning of the last century. I’ve read Scott’s biography (twice, in two different forms) and it is truly amazing that these physical objects[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Marathons are scary events. Only a couple of people in the race are out to win and the thousands of others just want to do their best, whether that means just finishing or getting a Personal Best. Failure is so scary. To say I was nervous would be an understatement [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Spotted on GO Blog, here’s a movie I will be queuing up to see. Blindsight the documentary/movie follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers on their journey to climb a mountain in the shadow of Everest. Lhakpa-Ri peak, the goal of the expedition, is 2[...] Read More »