Team Geared Up

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 dreadful). Howth is one of the few races where you can park, race, shower and go to the prizegiving all in the one place! Nice view from [...] 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 Carl Dionisio tied 18,500 out of date condoms together to make the bungee cord.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 »