Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) It’s been a big week for Irish ultra runners! We’ve had Eoin Ryan ploughing through his Ultramarathon Triangle down along the canals. That involved the traditinal stage race format of 6.5 marathons in 6 days. I’m sure he’s well finished by [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Were you glued to Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Climb - Everest“? Were you as amazed as me that the annoying Tim actually made it up and down with a broken hand?! Am I evil that I really didn’t want him to succeed!!? He wouldn’t listen[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Today’s Evening Herald (I buy it for the athletics each Thursday!) reports that Irishwoman Pauline Baker has just broken the women’s altitude record for a hot-air balloonist. It says she ascended to 13,500 feet in a harness hanging from a balloon, a dang[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Fearghal from revolutioncycle.ie emailed to say Mark Beaumont became the fastest person to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle. Taking only 195 days his whirlwind tour du monde began last August and covered the requisite 18,000 miles through 20 countries. Fearghal̵[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE - The Piton posted it so I stole their title, they got it right in one go “47.2 knots of pure awesome-ness”. This video is of The French Hydroptère when it broke a world record for the fastest sailing speed (not including icesailing) when they hit 47.2 knots. Unreal. I lov[...] Read More »

BANGKOK, THAILAND - They don’t come better than this - don’t you love a granny with buzz about them. There’s no holding Peggy McAlpine (yes, McAlpine) after her Bungy jump 20yrs ago at age 80, she’s now managed to enter the Guinness book of records for going Paragliding at a[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - DCURCC reader, Sarunas, sent in a link to FreakClimbing.com, featuring an ascent the Nose of El Capitan in 2hr 45min 45sec in Yosemite. It took Warren J Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore 47 days to ascend the 1000m-high face in 1958, but the two German brothers[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK, (Team Geared Up) - This one wins all the prizes. Forget ascending Everest blind, as an amputee or even running the A-Z of Marathons, this is way cooler. Having tried to climb Mont Blanc myself (and getting white washed off in a snow storm) I have ultimate respect for them lobbing these [...] Read More »