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! 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 la[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Shane Ohly has set a new winter record for the ramsay round in 29hrs and 59mins and 34seconds. To date there have been only 45 successful finishers of the ramsay round. Charlie Ramsay was the first person to complete the round in 1978 in a time of 23hrs and 58 min[...] Read More »

I received an email from Claire MacLeod to let me know about the inaugural Slacklining Masters, which will be held in Fort William, Scotland, “will be kicking off at 12pm on Saturday 23rd February at the Lochaber Leisure Leisure Centre playing fields with the Grand Final at 4pm.” Dust [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Today its Links@Lunch as I didn’t get to write these last night. Here’s the stuff during the week we wished we’d talked more about: — It’s “Groovy Shoe” time. We got to be careful not to show Eoin these or he’ll be off to[...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - BBC Scotland followed Ulric Jessop on the 2007 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding challenge. The X-Alps race is an 850km flying and mountain climbing race across the European Alps where competitors armed only with their paraglider must scale high enough to jump and get[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, KILDARE (Team Geared Up) - What did all the adventurers do to deserve this?! We’ve already had Joe Simpson’s ‘Beckoning Silence’ last night, Beyond Endurance tonight, and now there’s a choice of items to watch on Wednesday. If you’re in Dublin there[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - O.k., I normally don’t post specifically about these sort of things but having received an email from Dave MacLeod today promoting it, I thought it would be worth giving a mention. As it’s about to enter winter, we’ll all need some inspiration[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Angela Mudge and Kilian Jornet are the champions of the 2007 Buff Skyrunner World Series. Mudge retained her crown from last year and Jornet becomes the youngest ever champion Skyrunner World Series at the age of just 19. He captured his title with an impressive 4[...] Read More »

DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Just picked this interesting offer by ITV up via the BMC’s website! Are you a single guy? Passionate about keeping fit and being active? Believe in a healthy, clean-living lifestyle? Up for a challenge? ITV is making a new dating show and wants to fi[...] Read More »

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - After our recent link to Dave MacLeod’s write-up on his own thoughts on his new route, To Hell and Back, and all the problems that became associated with it, PosingProductions, one of the camera teams (and producers of the amazing E11 movie and fri[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - While The Great Climb was cancelled due to weather, Dave posts on his blog that he’s completed the Hell’s Lum climb that was to be done on the day. It’s the most dangerous lead I’ve ever done, and right now, I’m not sure exactly how I feel about it. Falli[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Outsider Magazine are running a feature on the the Irish team MTB team for the Mountain Biking World Championships in Fort William. From Ireland - Robin Seymour (riding in the elite men’s cross-country), Niall Davis, Conor McConvey (under 23’s), Beth McCluskey [...] Read More »

UPDATE: This has not been cancelled. Boooo. UPDATE: This has been postponed until Tomorrow. via BBC site. LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Don’t forget BBC - Scotland - The Great Climb is on tomorrow Saturday 18 August. It is rumored Dave McLeod will attempt a 3 pitch E9 or E10 on live TV. Shoul[...] Read More »

WANAKA, NEW ZEALAND (Team Geared Up) - In what is lining up to be a pretty amazing piece of footage, BBC are hosting “The Great Climb” - an outside broadcast covering all things climbing and outdoorsy (is that a word?) on August 18th on BBC Two Scotland from 1pm - 7pm. In an amazing and[...] Read More »