Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Well Lewis Gordon Pugh is the guy who has been swimming in the North and South Pole waters before so at least he’ll be used to the cold. He plans to kayak for 10 hours a day in which he hopes he will cover 100km a day. When he reaches the most Northerly poin[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Irish extreme-adventurer runner Mark Pollock has named his team for the South Pole Race which includes ‘Noel Hanna’ and launched his new website SimplyDecide. Irish Ultra runner and friend of TGU John O’ Regan tells me he spoke to him yesterday fro[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton left them here in their way to the South Pole, at the beginning of the last century. I’ve read Scott’s biography (twice, in two different forms) and it is truly amazing that these physical objects[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog)- This years mens race was won by Korean Byeung Sik Ahn in a time of 4:02:37 and Cathrine Due of Denmark won the womens race in a time of 5:37:14. Congeratulations to both Peter Ferris and Wayne Pollock from Ireland you finished the tough course in 6:12:05 and 7:10:2[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team geared Up) Now here’s the kinda adventurous spirit we love round here: imagine your first marathon. Imagine the kinda scary trepidation that went along with it. The savage training and the constant doubts. Then imagine that you will be competing in the world’s cool[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) If you’re one of the few people left on this island who hasn’t seen this play then get out and see it. It’s brilliant. Aidan Dooley is absolutely incredible. He draws the crowd into the whole event in a way you’d never have thought possible b[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Thanks to John O’ Regan for the tip off via the new Team Geared Up messaging system (in the profiles section of each user). John sent us a link to Mark Pollock’s South Pole Race blog which gives details of the first race to the South Pole since the Scott/[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Best Outdoor Adventurous Ad ever! Cracks me up every time, I love it! What’s your favourite? -Aisling- [...] Read More »