Team Geared Up

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 »

DUBLIN IRELAND (Team Geared Up) With the AR World Champs in full swing, Team Nike lead the field on Day 4. Here’s an extract from the latest report from Sleepmonsters: Despite the lack of immediate pressure from behind while Wilsa/Hellyhansen slept, progress was solid, and once clear of the po[...] 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) The Irish Times are reporting that three Irish doctors have summited Everest from south side of the mountain. Here’s a posting by sister-in-law of Dr. Nigel Hart, one of six doctors conducting medical experiments there. The other Irish summiters were Roger McMo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Northern Irish climber Gavin Bates who very nearly made the summit of Everest without oxygen previously but got stuck in a summit block rope queue has been making another attempt. It sounds like it went scarcely wrong. The adventure blog is reporting: The word is that G[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Yes, Samantha Larson is on Annabelle’s case! As reported on every other blog, Samantha became the youngest person to complete the highest peak on each of the 7 continents during the week. It can’t be a disadvantage that she’s also hot. Annabelle Bond [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Don’t miss Bear Grylls blog. He’s just taken a record for the highest ever paraglider flight, by flying a lap of Everest’s summit! This guy is great: Soon our gps’s froze, followed soon after by our variometers. Our radios range was now reduced [...] Read More »