Team Geared Up

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - TGU Alumni blogger Darran reports that Irishman, Damian Foxall and his French team mate Jean-Pierre Dick will sail into Barcelona tonight in the Paprec-Virbac 2 winning the 1st ever Barcelona World Race. The Barcelona World Race is a new two-handed, non-stop round the w[...] 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 »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Links @ Lunch again! — Howth Coastguard & RNLI were up at 4am yesterday to rescue 4 men from rocks in Howth. Their fishing boat was holed and sunk within minutes. I understood that the All-weather sent in its tender and the inshore brought them back to harbo[...] Read More »

UPDATE: I just realised Eoin announced this would happen 1 year ago! LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - With a tagline of “The Other Desert Race”, Sleepmonsters emailed me this Canadian ultra race notice yesterday. I suspect some of you guys may have got it too, it’s the Rock & Ic[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND(Geared Up Blog) - This seems like one of the more crazy races to me. I noticed the existence of the race when i was looking on Mounteverest.net and i couldn’t quite believe it. The calibre of people entering the race is unreal. The race was originally set up as a training prog[...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - BBC Scotland followed Ulric Jessop on the 2007 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding challenge. The X-Alps race is an 850km flying and mountain climbing race across the European Alps where competitors armed only with their paraglider must scale high enough to jump and get[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - TGU commenter Richard Oakley emailed today to say his Dublin club ‘Liffey Valley Athletics Club’ are organising a running race on New Years Day. This will run your turkey off you! Anyone can run and it’s a good fast course - It’s the perfect way[...] Read More »

UPDATE: Thanks to Charlie for plotting g-maps for our route on Saturday night (15km), and Sunday in Richmond Park (8.2km). LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - TGU did it! We finished (just with a few technical mishaps) the London 2007 Rat Race. The Rat Race is an urban adventure race, taking all the acti[...] Read More »