Team Geared Up » montana http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com talking about outdoor adventure... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en © robin@bytesurgery.com () robin@bytesurgery.com() 1440 talking about outdoor adventure... robin@bytesurgery.com No no http://homedir-b.libsyn.com/podcasts/a7d06df132db6001b6053c87a6356197/487cc283/bytesurgery/images/tgu.jpg Team Geared Up http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com 144 144 Irish Adventure Racing: Kilbroney, Donegal and Montana! http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/06/irish-adventure-racing-kilbroney-donegal-and-montana.html http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/06/irish-adventure-racing-kilbroney-donegal-and-montana.html#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:45:57 +0000 Aisling Coppinger http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/?p=2736
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) This is gonna be a bit of a mixed bag of updates, links, well wishes etc. etc. even though it’s Wednesday! Well done to all those who took part in the Kilbroney Challenge, the one day adventure race in Rostrevor, Co. Down. Don’t forget, we DID remind you of the closing date! I don’t think they escaped the crappy weather up there so it must have been fun…

The winning table looked a bit like this:

1st – Don Travers & Martin O’Hagan
2nd – Rick McKee & Davy Creighton
3rd – Billy Reed & Gerry Kingston
Female –
1st – Kate Cronin & Anna Cronin
2nd – Jennifer Watson & Andrea Harrower
3rd – Kate Hebblethwaite & Sadhbh NiHoGaln
Mixed –
1st – Melanie Earwaker & Niall Donovan
2nd – Phil & Valerie O’Neill
3rd – Simon Keating & Julie Murphy

You can read Tango and Cash’s account of it here.

Following on the same theme, and since T&C will be taking part with my friend Karen, next Saturday in Donegal sees the running of Adventure Ireland’s Donegal adventure race. The course is likely to be:

start on bike for 36k (including 13k off road) and can be cut to 25k. There will be an 8 to 10k trek with two alternative courses depending on navigation skills. A 16k bike ride will bring competitors back to the 8k kayak finish.

Have you been keeping track of Avril and the Hunky Dory’s over at Primal Quest?? They’re now in tenth!! Go Avril! That photo above is from the Primal Quest site, apparently there was some white water to be had on Day 2…..probably better than tackling with bears.

-Aisling-

Image from Eco Primal Quest.

]]> http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/06/irish-adventure-racing-kilbroney-donegal-and-montana.html/feed Avril at Primal Quest Montana 2008!! http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/06/avril-at-primal-quest-montana-2008.html http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2008/06/avril-at-primal-quest-montana-2008.html#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:00:20 +0000 Aisling Coppinger http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/?p=2729
DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) As previously blogged, our own friend of TGU, Avril Copeland, is in Montana to take part in Primal Quest 2008, one of the most challenging endurance races in the world. From Avril herself:

Greetings from sunny Montana!! Its amazing, the sun is out, however the peaks are full of snow. We went through gear check and skills check today and now have tomorrow to relax, which is brilliant. Most of the teams have arrived and there is a great buzz around. I suppose the fact that we are going to be out for ten days hasn’t really hit us yet!!!

We all bought our bear spray today. We are hearing lots of bear sighting stories and and also they are trying to clear avalanche hazards at the moment. I’m more worried about the bears and have my bear spray ready to go in its holster … :)


She sent us on these photos of their gear check and skills check day! Check out the rest of the set here on their team blog.

Avril you’re an absolute super hero, we’ll be following you and willing you on every day (in the comfort of our armchairs!)

-Aisling-

Quotes and images belong to Avril Copeland.

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