Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’m a little late getting to this one but hey, I have the excuse of ironman training to fall back on every time I’m slacking around here. ;-) Big congrats to all of the Irish team that travelled to Snowdon in Wales for the annual 10 mile race up and down[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Neal and I are taking part in the IMRA Wicklow Way relay tomorrow. At this stage EVERYONE should have run their route (yes Neal ;-8) and be familiar enough with it that they’re comfortable and know their way around, it’s fairly common to get lost! As lat[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) On the 21st anniversary of the race up Carrantouhil last Sunday, it also happened to be the 20th anniversary of the setting of the record time of 71.43 by King of the Mountains John Lenihan. Sporting legends don’t come much bigger and better than this former W[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Our girly team of adventure racers are raging we’re missing Causeway Coast’s event this weekend: the Cuchulain Challenge. We just didn’t get our act together on time for all that would be involved. Here’s what it’s all about: The CuChul[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Don’t let the fact that it’s on the northside put you off (although the traffic for us Southsiders is usually pretty dreadful). Howth is one of the few races where you can park, race, shower and go to the prizegiving all in the one place! Nice view from [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Tomorrow sees an unfortunate clash between the 4th race in the IMRA winter league and the National Senior Cross Country. The mountain race is being held in Carrick mountain in Wicklow and the race distance has just recently been lengthened to 11k (bit of a long one [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The race isn’t the hard bit, it’s getting out of bed that’s the killer. On an extremely wet and freezing cold Sunday morning I could think of better places to be but there I was stood on the line for the second race in the Irish Mountain Running As[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Congratulations to Team Geared Up Blogger Aisling Coppinger who qualified to represent Ireland at the World Mountain Running Trophy! Earlier in the summer, Aisling ran for Ireland at the European Mountain Running Championships. Next week, Aisling travels to Switzerland[...] Read More »