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) Well deserved winner of yesterday’s mini adventure around Kerry was Peter O’ Farrell. An Turas Beag seems to have been well[...] Read More »

EDITOR - We have a new TGU writer! Ed runs the site super site TrailRunningSoul.com and is going be doing a weekly wrapup here of the best AR news. Welcome to Ed! – CHICAGO (Team Geared Up) - Kicking off what will be my weekly post on teamgearedup.com. I’ll be writing about all kind of stuf[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Some photos from last Wednesday’s IMRA Hellfire race are here. And really really well organised it was too I can tell ya!!!! ;-) We raised over 200 euro for Women’s Aid with the TGU bars! Apologies for being too busy to be taking more photos but you̵[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - If you’ve got BBC2 TV channel there’s some can’t miss TV on tonight…Across the Andes: Beyond Boundaries - Fri 9 May, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm. A friend’s sister, Julie who I’ve been in email contact with, is a star of the show! All of them [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - The Irish team have issued a press release May 8th 2008 from Everest Base Camp. The mountain is open! Now… let’s hope the rush of 285 climbers for the top doesn’t cause a loss of life. Fingers crossed. Chinese Summit Puts Irish Everest Plans Back On Tr[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - This race is an introduction to adventure racing and will give the Mizen teenagers a feel for what is involved when the World Series Adventure Race, a gruelling five day challenge for the world’s top adventure racing teams, comes to Schull, Ireland on June 17th. [...] Read More »

UPDATE 2215hrs - Video of torch on summit via Reuters: SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - An incoming report on the news today started like this… EVEREST BASE CAMP, China (Reuters) - The Olympic torch was lit at the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, the crowning moment of the Beijing Games torch[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Last year’s IMRA Leinster League was a bit of a wash-out with rain but just look at the crackin’ sunshine we’re having now. Tonight’s race is extra extra extra special……not simply because I’m race director for this evening&#[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Guide, Kenton Cool has begun posting photos of Ran Fiennes on Everest. They’ve begun acclimatising and the latest photos come in from Camp 2. You can follow them on the Mountain Hardware Sessions flickr stream which is well worth subscribing to. Why is this expe[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Adventure racing heroes (well they claim to win everything!!) Tango and Cash appear to be half way through their attack on the Ulster Way, a 600-mile long-distance loop route around Northern Ireland, linking the current way-marked ways together with minor-road link [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - The Rat Race (I took part in the London Rat Race last year) is coming to Ireland. Great news. The much-loved event, having experienced runaway success in Britain, is now set to reach the shores of the Emerald Isle with 2 new and exciting events planned for Galway and Be[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Olympic hopefuls, Dean Karnazes and a controversial torch aren’t the only things making preparations for getting to China this Summer. A group of experienced Irish ultrarunners, I think I just might know one or two of them ;-) , have been making preparations f[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Patagonia are having a ‘monster sale’ from Thursday the 8th of May till Sunday the 11th of May. The strange thing is that it’s in a completely separate location. It will be held in Filmbase, Curved st, Temple Bar, Dublin. I’m not totally su[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - I watch Russell Davies blog for my interest in mobile technology and was pleased to see this little expedition of his. On his first (and last?) ascent of Ben Nevis he strapped Nokia N95 to his chest strap on his rucksack and set it to post live photos & GPS locatio[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Our girly team of adventure racers are raging we’re missing Causeway Coast’s event this weekend: the Cuchulain Challenge. We just didn’t get our act together on time for all that would be involved. Here’s what it’s all about: The CuChul[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - We know less about our oceans than we do about Space. Google are about to shift things a little and produce a consumer tool (a version of Google Earth) that lets you fly around the seabed, through canyons and over buried treasure. Announcing Google Ocean: The company ha[...] Read More »