Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I thought of writing one of those posts saying the Gobi March was continuing and they’re through half way and Dean Karnazes appears to be in 4th position and there was a photo finish for the finish of Day 3. Or I thought I could write one of those posts as a wife and sister and friend to 4 of the competitors saying how worried sick I am and how it doesn’t really help that the organisers are painfully slow at putting up daily results and that they just keep saying it’s getting hotter and sandstorms are blowing tents down etc. etc.
Neither of which would be completely real because mostly I just hope they’re all enjoying themselves. I hope they realise that it’s an amazing opportunity to do something incredible, something very few people ever get to do or even dream of doing, that they’ll experience things that’ll affect them forever, that they’ll have shared memories that those of us who couldn’t go will never understand. That they aren’t taking the piss too much out of tent buddy Dean Karnazes and that when they land here next Wednesday 18th that it’ll be back to reality with a bang, which for Tony will mean he gets handed 3 kids, a lawnmower and a paintbrush. He better be enjoying himself. :-)

-Aisling-

If you wish to e-mail competitors you can do so here. The Irish are Robert Kiernan (Tony’s real name), Eugene Coppinger, Liam O’ Riain, Paul Moran. That’s them in my photo!