Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Irish Ultra Runner Tony Mangan flies out to Brno in the Czech Republic today to compete in the 48 hour race where last year he broke the 48 hour indoor record, as reported by Athletics Ireland. The event is likely to feature ‘live’ on the race website [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) It’s one of the biggest races on the Irish running calender and I’ve never ran it; the Ballycotton 10 Mile, being held this Sunday. It has always been too close to the Connemarathon for me. Men’s favourite this year is Vinnie Mulvey from Raheny who[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Seems things are all upside down and mixed up in the world of running. Someone really upset the running God’s this weekend. Firstly in Wicklow it seems a lot of people went wrong on the new Carrick route (round 4 of IMRA Winter league). Bit harsh of someone on[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Tomorrow sees an unfortunate clash between the 4th race in the IMRA winter league and the National Senior Cross Country. The mountain race is being held in Carrick mountain in Wicklow and the race distance has just recently been lengthened to 11k (bit of a long one [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) News just in that James Nolan has just missed out on breaking the current Irish indoor record for 1000m in Stockholm this evening. His time of 2:20:33 left him just outside the current record held by Marcus O’ Sullivan of 2:20:2, set in New York in 1985. IR[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I saw this debate happening over at the Irish Mountain Running Assoc. website and chose to say nothing as it developed into a debate about other issues like the calender and who won what championship and what appeared on results etc. etc. But what really got me goin[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I know for sure there’s athletics on Irish TV tomorrow but for the life of me I can’t find it in the TV listings……anyway if you’re looking for it you’ll find it. But if you’re a runner and you’re in Dublin there’[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Woohoo! Big black tie event in the Crowne Plaza last night as the first ever Athletics Ireland National Athletic Awards took place. (And no, before you ask the mountain runners didn’t attend with mud on their faces!) Really great night, lots of well known face[...] Read More »