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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) - Team Geared Up are delighted to help out a regular reader over the last 7 months, Avril Copeland who with her team ‘Hunky Dorys Adven[...] Read More »

Boeri Vortex Ski Helmet SINGAPORE - Well it’s a bit warmer in Singapore today than it was in Vail, Colorado, USA last December. Part cold, part wanting a camera-mounting, part I was about to throw myself off a few black diamond runs… I decided to buy a ski helmet. In the USA its d[...] Read More »

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Team Geared Up) - Hey all you Geared Up heads! I’m heading over to the states for a couple weeks with some time to kill and would like to know who and how many people would like to come out for a reader meet up! I’m going to be in Boston from the 5th to the 9th of F[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - At present it may be U.S. resorts only, but Liftopia.com is attempting to get cheap ski-tickets to snow sports enthusiasts. Liftopia partners with leading resorts across the nation in an effort to get people like you to their slopes more often. We work directly with our[...] Read More »

DUBLIN IRELAND, (Team Geared Up) I’m reading an article in the current issue of my local free newspaper, the Southside People, about super ultra athlete Tony Mangan’s latest victory. He cruised to victory in the 72 hour Across the Years ultra in Arizona, winning by a whopping 23 miles. [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - The location for Primal Quest 2008 has been announced as Montana. The race will take place between the 21st of June and the 2nd of July. I checked the team list and the IrishAR team aren’t there. I wonder are they concentrating on a different race for next y[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The 2008 lottery draw took place over the weekend for the Western States Endurance Run, the 100 mile long ultrarun that takes place in California every June. The reason it’s a lottery is because they get almost 1200 entrants looking to fill only 357 places and[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Links @ lunch again. Here’s the stuff we didn’t get to talk about this week. — I’m fully expecting Tango & Cash to have these new underglow lights on their Mountain Bikes at the next event. Boys, go for blue ones, way cooler. — GoBlo[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - I listen to Endurance Planet’s podcasts regularly but i have fallen behind recently because i lost my ipod about a month ago now. So I’m just catching up to date with all the new stories. The one that stuck out to me was t-shirt etiquette at races. End[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) What a cracking finish to the women’s ING New York Marathon! It doesn’t get much better! She had Wami on her heels the entire way and in the last 800 Paula seemed to kick! I watched the race in the pub at the National Athletics Stadium in Santry and ther[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Congrats again to all the adidas Dublin Marathon finishers, Irish mountain runners are listed here. Don’t miss the highlights at 6pm tonight on Setanta. Best of Luck to anyone running New York! Only 2 days to the big event. As we said before, heavy weight elit[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - DCURCC reader, Sarunas, sent in a link to FreakClimbing.com, featuring an ascent the Nose of El Capitan in 2hr 45min 45sec in Yosemite. It took Warren J Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore 47 days to ascend the 1000m-high face in 1958, but the two German brothers[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - One for our American readers. The Petzl Roctoberfest is taking place at Red River Gorge in Kentucy this weekend. As the promo says, “Come watch the world-class rockstars climb 5.14, watch great movies, take in a clinic, eat some great food, and raise fund[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s your Friday links… — 1000+Vietnamese audition for Mount Everest reality show Over a thousand people arrived at Military Zone 7 Stadium in Tan Binh District last Sunday to tryout for the upcoming reality show “Everest Vietnam 2008.” -Eo[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) It’s not often a running story makes the news (unless you count Marion Jones and all that muck) but this incredible story of a Bejing hopeful featured on last nights evening news. Gilbert Tuhabonye was born in Burundi in 1974 and dreamed of a scholarship to Ame[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Record temperatures called an early halt to yesterdays La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon after one runner died on the course. Very sad news. The 35 year old runner, identified as Chad Schnieber, collapsed about mile 18 and was rushed to hospital and later confirmed to h[...] Read More »