Team Geared Up

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DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) 600 miles cycling around Ulster seems like a long way. But with no gears?? Well they’re doing it for charity so we’ll forgive their madness this time…. This year sees the re-launch of The Ulster Way, a 600-mile long-distance loop route around Nort[...] Read More »

A 100% volunteer operated 999/112 Emergency Service - Charity Number 10148 SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - We’ve got to support the mountain rescue team local to most of the TGU bloggers. Gerry, Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue PRO has left a message in our forums asking for your support at their[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - BBC Presenter Kate Humble has launched StuffYourRucksack.com. “How many times have you been travelling and visited a school or community or local charity that you would love to help? The school needs books, or a map or pencils; an orphanage needs children’s clo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It has been kayaked blind and windsurfed across but now Rupert and Al are kiting across the Irish Sea to raise money for the hospital that ‘put Al back together’ by kitesurfing across the Irish Sea. In March 2006, Aberdovey kitesurfer Al Crisp broke his ba[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Remember TGU featured in last weekend’s Sunday Times article about adventure? Well with kind permission from the Sunday Times we can reporoduce the article for all those that didn’t run out and purchase a copy! Because it’s quite a long piece of tex[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The RNLI emailed me today to give notice of their eBay auctions. Apart from winning station tours of stations around the country, you can bid & win for 2 places to become ‘Crew For A Day’ at their award-winning Lifeboat College in Poole, Dorset, on 24 A[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - This seems like a very clever and simple way to come up with funds. Surely when we see the members of the Dublin/Wicklow Mountain Rescue team on the streets of Dublin it should be other people behind the scenes collecting the money. The members of the rescue team [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Featured this morning in the London Metro, Dan Wilson is attempting to run 26 Marathons in 2007, one for each letter of the alphabet. This weekend he will knock off ‘L’ for London. It’s all in aid of Parkinson’s Disease, but with such a massive [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Remember Brad Zdanivsky on Geared Up? The quadriplegic rock climber. Brad sent me an invite this morning, to his fundraising event for his next attempt to raise the needed loot to travel to El Capitan, and be the first team with a quadriplegic to get to the summit! Tha[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - We covered his story back in January. GO Blog this morning tell us he made it! His 3,272-mile swim down the Amazon took him 9 weeks, during which time he battled dizziness, vertigo, high blood pressure, diarrhea, nausea and delirium as well as piranhas, toothpick fish,[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Two mountaineering friends that Darran & myself worked with at the Kandersteg International Scout Centre (KISC) in Switzerland are planning to ski 570km unsupported across Greenland in an effort to raise funds to help Scouts rebuild Southern Lebanon and to celebrate 1[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - What better fun than a naked bike ride, and it’s legal! On the 9th of June 100’s of Londoners will pedal past my apartment nude. I’ll be there with a camera, it should make great footage; mind you there are some rules - A - PHOTOGRAPHERS BEHAVIOUR Photogr[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Reuters.co.uk are reporting British skater boy Dave Cornthwaite has just skateboarded across Australia. Wow, he must have a sore right foot from all that pushing! Brisbane - Made it finally! Dave crossed the finish line early this afternoon at Brisbane’s South Bank [...] Read More »

SUSSEX (Geared Up Blog) - Press play above. Sitting here in Sussex in the UK celebrating Christmas with family. Tonight I watched Challenge Anneka returns for a Christmas Special on TV, the second I heard the theme tune memories flooded back of how much I used to love that show. Not to mention wh[...] Read More »

LONDON (Geared Up Blog) - Congratulations to the 10,000 runners who ran the 10,000 meters at the Dublin City Port Tunnel Run today. Special thumbs up goes to the Team Geared Up runner, Eoin! Good on ya! Looking for photos from the run? See photos 1 and photos 2. The Irish media is reporting: Arou[...] Read More »