Team Geared Up

CHICAGO (Team Geared Up) - Without more ado, here goes some links for this week:

• The Nathan Sports HPL 020 reviewed. This is a lightweight hydration running vest with some interesting features like
  a 3-way propulsion harness or a 2 liter bladder. Read the review here
• A short review of the Vibram Fivefingers from the perspective of a barefoot runner that may be helpful for those who are thinking on transitioning to barefoot running.

On the adventure running side, we’ve got some news on different races:

• The Coastal Challenge (TCC), the World’s Expedition Run, has opened registration for its 2009 race, the “Rainforest Run,” scheduled February 1-6 along Costa Rica’s tropical Pacific coastline.
• A Nepalese runner won the Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon 2008 for the third consecutive year, finishing the world’s highest marathon in 3 hours 53 minutes and 14 seconds. The marathon is held on May 29 each year to commemorate the first ascent of Mt Everest by Tenzing Norgey Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.
• The 10th anniversary of the Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset ultra marathon will take place the week of July 5, 2008. The event “allows runners to experience some of the most spectacular and pristine trail running in the world as well as an opportunity to visit Mongolia - the land of Chinggis Khan, nomadism and infinite wilderness“. Sounds like you’d like to run it next year? This article will give you more info on the race and how a runner is preparing for it.

And closing this week’s post, a video of The Turas. I’m sure my fellow Irish TGUs can give more insight on this competition (Robin already posted about it), but to quickly summarize it, The Turas is a grueling adventure race across the Cork and Kerry countryside where athletes will compete non-stop, day and night, for over 90 hours with few stops points to get food and sleeping unsheltered along the way, completing 650km and climbing 18,390m by trekking, kayaking, swimming, rafting and many other disciplines.

-Ed-
Find much more trail, endurance and adventure running at trailrunningsoul.com

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