Team Geared Up

I was going to write up a brief entry on this myself considering I was doing the route-setting for the roped part of the competition but Stephen McGowan and Ailish Grennan put together a top quality write-up so I’ll leave it to them! Consider this my first arrangement of a guest post :) From m[...] 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 »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - The 2nd round of the Irish Bouldering League took place last weekend at St. Colmans Secondary School (Google Maps), Midleton, Co. Cork. With about an estimated 120 climbers competing, in one very cramped room, you can guarantee it made for a social and friendly[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Enjoy your Friday links! The stories we never got to talk about: — “He jumped from 40,000ft without a parachute…” Know the lyrics? Travis Pastrana does! This Moto Cross rider (world famous for performing backflips on a motorbike) has jumped out[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) held their Climbing world cup in Japan over the weekend. Tomas Mrazek (CZE) and Maja Vidmar (SLO) won Gold. I didn’t see an Irish or UK team in the results. Odd? It appears neither country is a member, I wonde[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Dates for the annual Irish Bouldering League (IBL) have been announced for the 2007 & 2008 competition. Round 1: NUI Galway, Saturday November 3rd 2007 Round 2: Middleton, Cork, Saturday December 1st 2007 Round 3: DCU, Dublin, Saturday January 12th 2008 The lea[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Have you ever seen a cooler shirt? The London Rat Race draws near for ‘Team Geared Up’. If you see a threesome running, cycling, kayaking & climbing around London in bright red shirts next weekend you know it’s us. The team with the reflective pa[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s time to announce our very own TGU blogger ‘Aisling Coppinger‘ has been selected to race for Ireland at the European Mountain Running Championships at Cauterets in France next weekend (July 8th 2007). We’re all immensely proud of her achieve[...] Read More »