Team Geared Up

CHICAGO, USA (Team Geared Up) - For this week, some links for tri-athletes, runners and multi-sports practitioners who may benefit from cross-training, both from a performance and an injury-free racing point of view. Keep the hard days hard and easy the easy days : interesting post about how alter[...] Read More »

LIMERICK, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Improving Your Climbing Technique (Part 2) Overgripping So you’re fighting your way up a steep, technical climb that’s close to your limit. You’re getting pumped, but finally a monster jug comes to hand and you’re able to stop and place s[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Friend of TGU Tony Mangan has been on to let us know about an incredible runner named Rosie Swale-Pope who has spent the last 5 years running round the world. On May 28th she would have caught a ferry to the Faroes Islands and by 18th June she will expect to land on[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) This could be a very long post if I was to list all of mountaineer and ultra-runner Lizzy Hawker’s achievements. If you google her name you get tonnes of recording breaking runs and wins and the list goes on and on….. Last year she set a new World Record[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Right. Hard to know where to start with this one so I’ll go back to the start of the year. I was heading over to France for our annual trip to the Trail Blanch Font Romeu (Snow Race) and had set myself a deadline which was this: that I would decide [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I hope for my sake they never publish results but it was cracking fun at last Saturday’s Mountain Biking Orienteering event organised by Setanta Orienteers. They’ve published photos here (including one of me looking very worried at the start!) We covered[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) You’re almost too late to enter a team for the most fun event on the Irish Mountain Running Calendar. Myself and our girly team of Clonliffe females have been recce-ing the various routes of the Wicklow Way Relay. It’s 8 different s[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Apologies about the site being offline over the weekend. We have got so busy we died and needed a memory upgrade which was impossible over the Bank Holiday in the UK where the server is located. By 10am this morning they had us back up! And there’s good new[...] Read More »