Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’ve been won over by the power of positive thinking! I posted before about the Beast of the East Triathlon (my first venture into the mad world of tri!) but I only vaguely mentioned that I had had a very hard time on the swim. It had gone so badly for me and [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Watch out for this documentary on Wednesday night at 10:45pm on BBC 1 Northern Ireland about 3 Northern Ireland oarsmen, all from the one town, on their quest to get to Beijing. For the past 18 months, BBC Sport Northern Ireland’s Season Ticket has been following [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) As you nod off tonight spare a thought for the teams of adventure racers milling around the “magical landscapes” of Tipperary, Cork and Limerick in this years Beast of Ballyhoura Adventure Challenge. I met up recently with a newly formed team who were ge[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) More adventure from the West in the form of a new climbing and adrenaline centre opening this weekend in Dingle. It’s run by Mike O’Shea of Work at Height and it’s appropriately named Play at Height!! It features a Bouldering Wall and a Lead Climb [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Well never let it be said we don’t pander to your requests so here ya go; more photos from Valerie O’ Sullivan of the Little Bo Peep Triathlon. That’s Colette Lawlor looking happy in the water, somthing I’m learning to do myself! That’[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Looks like they had a very successful Olympic Distance Tri in Kenmare, Co. Kerry for the second running of the Kenmare Tri Club’s Little Bo Peep Triathlon. Some comments from competitors, taken from Kenmare Tri Club race report include: From Alan Buckley: Cong[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) With a trip to Finland for the international Wife Carrying Championships as the prize I’m sure the competition was absolutely fierce in Sneem for the Irish heats of the Sneem Wife Carrying Competition! According to Valerie, Kerry is the maddest county in the w[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Eimear was on to let us know that Alan Ryan (her husband?) had just broken the Irish Ironman distance record in a time of 9 hours 17 minutes and 12 seconds in the Quelle Challenge in Roth Germany. Congrats to him!! That’s kinda incomprehensible to us mere mort[...] Read More »