Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) It’s right up there with all the things you have to do before you die. It’s one of the classic stage races. It has all the ingredients of an incredible endurance event; the heat, the struggle, the dunes, the self sufficiency, the mangled feet and the tor[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’ve blogged before about how some of our gang are heading to China for the Gobi March. It’s not long to go now and training with their heavily laden backpacks has been going surpisingly well, it doesn’t seem to have sapped their speed at all! Thi[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Planet Ultramarathon brings us this story about the Irish 24 hour running champion Dara O’ Kearney: Dara O’Kearney has made a good start to the year by beating a high quality field in the European Deep Stack Championship held in Drogheda over the weeke[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) If, like me, you made a decision last year to run a Spring marathon, right about now you’re probably winding down and dreaming about all that free time you’ll have when the real taper starts. As every good piece of marathon literature tells you, it’[...] 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) As an alternative to the now filled city maratahons in Spring check out these off road UK marathons instead! Via Ambition Store there’s a Night/ Day marathon in Stratford Upon Avon where competitors have to be totally self sufficient. The night time marathon s[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’ve mentioned here before about Kenyan athletes and their links with my brother and the Dublin marathon. With the recent escalation in violence in Kenya a lot of athletes are being targeted because they earn money. We’ve learnt of attacks on athletes wi[...] Read More »

UPDATE: We’ve emailed and waited for Mark to respond but heard nothing and so we’ll leave this with Richard Donovan’s (Race Director of the Antarctic Ice Marathon) update and who sent us a copy of Tim Harris’s Guinness World Record certificate showing Tim holds the youngest ([...] Read More »