Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting!DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Continuing our summer of non-stop adventure racing, this weekend sees the hosting of a unique style of housewarming with the Blackstairs[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Tony Kiernan and Gary Moralee have become the first people to successfully complete the Wicklow Round. They set off on Saturday at 11am at Kippure and arrived back the following day in a time of 33 hours 56 minutes. A qoute from someone involved: The lumpy throat hi[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Seriously I will shut the hell up about the weather soon. I know we’re all sick of it and depressed at the current forecast (and reaching for the prozac) but someone who I’d say could seriously benefit from a few rays is Sam Crowley. According to Bear180[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I was blogging previously about a race that some of our ultra running group have signed up for next year called the Gobi March. Well this years 6 day event is now over and the winner has been named as Mark Tamminga, with Stephen Hilton and Lucy Brooks as joint second[...] Read More »

IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Geared Up Reader and journalist Richard Oakley asks many questions in todays Sunday Times that you adventure readers will find interesting. He looks into the growing number of people who are attempting challenges that, a few years previous, most were just happy to survive. H[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Details have just been announced of the Beast of Ballyhoura Adventure Race (we mentioned it previously here). Organisers are billing it as: the only non-stop overnight race here in Ireland this year in the ancient and magical Ballyhoura region. Prepare to meet your d[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) There’s a race called the Gobi March that has just started a couple of days ago over in China and it’s part of the Racing the Planet series across world desserts. It’s the traditional stage race format of about 6 days across harsh terrain over vary[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Where did all the sunshine go? My tan was comning along nicely till this cold, wet, miserable grey spell arrived. Alright for you canoeists, less alright for those of us wanting to do a nightime reconaissance run tonight for our Wicklow Round training. Bad weather do[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Tomorrow sees the running of the annual Wicklow Way relay with about 28 teams of up to 8 people running across 120k of the famous route. I think we’re making history as the first all-female team to compete, as we have 8 Clonliffe harriers mountain running girls[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s all over the papers here, I snapped the above shot on route to work in the Metro. It’s being compared to graffiti, a swastika, and even Lisa Simpson performing a sex act. A cartoon in the paper had two sprinters running past a placard at the games with[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Mountain Runner Archie O’Donnell (who I went to College with by the way so he could tell you a thing or two) tells us over at the IMRA forum that his brother Richie, also a mountain runner of course, has made a documentary for TG4 and it’s airing on Frida[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Busy weekend on the mountain running scene. A team of Clonliffe Harriers girls are heading west to the Twelve Bens Challenge. This is a walk or run of 28km with a total ascent of 2530m starting at the Inagh Valley in Connemara. This is an extremely tough, strenuous [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) As I said in the comments we had to stop the round attempt at Glenmacnass waterfall, about 18 hours in. I was absolutely distraught as I was feeling very fresh, had changed into warm dry clothes for the night ahead and felt that the worst was behind us. We were down [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I’ve woken up to a set of camera phone photos, one from each summit in the first 7.5hrs of the first Wicklow round attempt. Aisling also sent me her proposed summit times for the route - and very cleverly turned on timestamps on the photos, so I’ll now[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Our fellow TGU blogger Aisling has just sent the first live moblog photo from the start line of their Wicklow Round attempt. This is the very first attempt to complete this route in under 24hrs. TGU Eoin will be marshaling one of the night-time summits so hopefull[...] Read More »

As Eoin was saying there are two Irish AR teams in Scotland for the Adventure Racing World Championships and I just wanted to say a HUGE Good Luck to all 8 of them! I’d say there’s plenty of nail biting going on right now as it all kicks off tomorrow! I know many of them through the moun[...] Read More »