Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting! DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Adventure racing heroes (well they claim to win everything!!) Tango and Cash appear to be half way through their attack on the Ulster 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) Lots happening on the hills this weekend so thought I’d wish best of luck to all our internationals heading for the mountains. Firstly there’s a bunch of hillrunners heading to the WMRA’s World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge which this ti[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Reading a Tango and Cash blogpost without laughing your face off is like putting a Rowntrees Fruit Pastille in your mouth without chewing it. Not gonna happen. Here’s their account of their Causeway Coast Adventure Race last weekend at Baronscourt and their ba[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) 600 miles cycling around Ulster seems like a long way. But with no gears?? Well they’re doing it for charity so we’ll forgive their madness this time…. This year sees the re-launch of The Ulster Way, a 600-mile long-distance loop route around Nort[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’m reading in tonight’s Herald that Ireland now has it’s own version of the Tough Guy! Remember Robin’s post? It’s called Mud Madness and it involves: The ultimate 4 mile challenge. Involving some of the worst terrain around. Mud and [...] 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) You only ever hear good things about the CCAR events! They’re renowned for throwing in a few surprises which competitors seem to enjoy! Firstly Bob was saying what a great event the Castlewellan one was now you can read a report from Tango and Cash on their blo[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) We need to map our adventures well in advance in order to be well prepared! So it’s good to hear entries are open for a couple of big adventure races. First up in May is the Irish Adventure Challenge (An Turas Beag). There’s space for 40 teams plus 20 su[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) As if my credit card didn’t take enough of a hammering over Christmas, I had to go and scare it even more with a trip to Belfast. I had wanted to check out this store for a while and this time we had an excuse. With my other half in the market for a seriously [...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - It’s the return of Friday Links! The weeks stories we wanted to post about but didn’t. — Here’s some more of these flying maniacs in wingsuits, this guy is known as “The Dude” (full post coming tomorrow on landing without a parachute ([...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Rick! Thanks for the email to let us know about your new features on Northern Irish TrailBadger.com which now allows the biking public to put up Mountain Biking reviews and ratings. where 1=rubbish thumbs down and 5=badger-tastic We reviewed TrailBadger’s launch[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) You were right Robin, the canoeing nearly killed me! But I can’t say the previous 6 hours of mountain biking were a piece of cake either!! LOL :-) Well we completed the Adventure Ireland Adventure Race in Newry Co. Down and considering we were a team thrown to[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I’ve been meaning to put this together for ages, however now that I’m back in the country it turns out it was most worthwhile in hanging on (worst pun ever! Shoot me if I ever do that again :) before writing it up. Firstly, Paul Harrington has been [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - TrailBadger.com contacted us today to inform us about their site launch. TrailBadger.com is a resource of Northern Irish mountain biking trails. The site looks professional, is easy to use, and is a pleasure to know it’s an Irish production. Routes include: # Co[...] Read More »