Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Cheers to everyone for all their good wishes! It was really appreciated! The day of the Ironman itself began with an alarm call at 3am, though I don’t think I really slept at all. I was aiming to be at the start between 4:30 and 5am. The previous days weather [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Right. Hard to know where to start with this one so I’ll go back to the start of the year. I was heading over to France for our annual trip to the Trail Blanch Font Romeu (Snow Race) and had set myself a deadline which was this: that I would decide the day I [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Yeh, my knee doesn’t do that either. An amazing, photo sequence pointed to by The Mountain World blog. You can see the entire sequence here. 17yr old Pete Whittaker with mother and father on belay duty, and sister Katy watching on has created a stunning set of pho[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Lots happening on the hills this weekend so thought I’d wish best of luck to all our internationals heading for the mountains. Firstly there’s a bunch of hillrunners heading to the WMRA’s World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge which this ti[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Bearded Git (BG) emailed me looking for ‘airtime’ for the Legalise Wild Camping in Wales & England campaign - just like they can in Scotland. They are looking to gather as many signatories as possible from UK Residents or Expats on the 10 Downing Street[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) As an alternative to the now filled city maratahons in Spring check out these off road UK marathons instead! Via Ambition Store there’s a Night/ Day marathon in Stratford Upon Avon where competitors have to be totally self sufficient. The night time marathon s[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Remember Tough Guy last year? Over 4,000 people brave mud, ice cold water, and flames to prove that they are tough. The Tough Guy race in the west of England, takes place over a two-mile long obstacle course designed by a former Grenadier Guardsman. Competitors must wad[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - It’s the return of Friday Links! The weeks stories we wanted to post about but didn’t. — Here’s some more of these flying maniacs in wingsuits, this guy is known as “The Dude” (full post coming tomorrow on landing without a parachute ([...] Read More »