Team Geared Up

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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) And while we’re on the subject of classic photos…….here’s one that didn’t make the Sports Illustated Swimsuit Edition…… (That’s our own John O’ Regan on the left!) -Aisling- [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Wow just look at the view! Only slightly more scenic I’d imagine than your average big city marathon eh? ;-) This is John O’ Regan and Roy Galvin in Peru where they were winners of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu marathon. Here’s an account of the e[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Well it looks like they didn’t treat it as the “holiday” that Richard Donovan described because Irish men John O’ Regan and Roy Galvin have only gone and WON the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu marathon. We’ve only just got word and there[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I know Eoin K said there was no jealousy in Irish ultrarunning well he’s wrong! Friend of TGU John O’ Regan and Corkman Roy Galvin are heading to one of the most extreme marathons in the world and I, for one, am dead jealous!!! On May 29th they’ll [...] 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) You know the way sometimes at the end of a race you could almost spit on the people who made you work so hard for your place….well maybe not really, it’s not very sportsmanlike but….but you know what I mean. The person chasing me to the line at Sat[...] Read More »