Team Geared Up

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s your Friday links on a Tuesday! The stuff we didn’t get to talk about during the last week (or 2 weeks for me!). I was away travelling and have had no internet connection on return - it cut midway through this post, hence the few days delay. Thanks to A[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Ireland has been awarded the right to host the 2009 European Cross Country Athletics Championships by the European Athletics Council. The event will be held at the Santry Demesne course in north Dublin on 13 December 2009. Thanks Darran via RTE. Also, the 15th British [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Sorry about the cheesy title! Brian mailed me this morning to say their new site at www.doolincoastguard.com had gone live. The Doolin Unit of the Irish Coast Guard is located in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland. All volunteers, on-call 24/7/365. If you’[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Dates for the annual Irish Bouldering League (IBL) have been announced for the 2007 & 2008 competition. Round 1: NUI Galway, Saturday November 3rd 2007 Round 2: Middleton, Cork, Saturday December 1st 2007 Round 3: DCU, Dublin, Saturday January 12th 2008 The lea[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s a quite day today in the outdoor world - no news hitting our radar yet! So - here’s a post a long time coming. Have you seen IrishFreestyle.com? The Irish freestyle kayaking team is made up of both a Ladies and Mens teams that comprises both seniors a[...] Read More »

TON SAI, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - Sean Vilanueva, aka ‘Belgian Sean’ has climbed E8, freed an A0 roof pitch and had a nasty abseil on 3 day trip to Fairhead. Wednesday turned out wet but Sean had a look at A Bad Skin Day (E7 6c) before the rest of the rain set in. The next day it wa[...] 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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - This film is so long coming we’ve talked about it as far back as Oct ‘05 and Mar ‘06! But it’s now about to finally be released. “UnderDeveloped: A film about climbing in Ireland”, looks to be a hit. It has been produced by Rick[...] Read More »