Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Just received Great Outdoors email newsletter and it’s the announcement of their annual Canoe & Kayak Sale on April 12th @ 9:30am. ….the annual clear out of our demo fleet of kayaks and any other second hand boats we’ve picked up over the la[...] Read More »

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 »

KILDARE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - For those looking for good articles on training advice, don’t forget to check out Irishclimbingcoaching’s site (which will be going through a re-design soon!). There’s some useful advice, especially in relation to setting your goals and focusing[...] 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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - “We can’t make your drinks” said the email… Really appreciate the invite, we are heading out to climb Aconcagua tomorrow and back the middle of jan. –Ian Damn - I’m jelous! The 2008 Irish Everest Expedition are off to South Ame[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Eoin & myself took my London flatmate out for a jaunt in Wicklow (Ireland) 3 weeks ago to give him a first taste of the mountains. We also took the opportunity to wind-test the Mountain 25 by The North Face. This tent has been everywhere with me, but not out of pl[...] 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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) My entire weekend has been consumed in various ways by the adidas Dublin Marathon. Firstly a visit to the pre-race expo where I tried to stock up on running gear not available in this country. There was also a stand for the new Dublin running shop whose website is n[...] Read More »