Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Our own Jacqueline O’ Hagan was taking part last weekend in an endurance mountain biking event in Scotland called the Ten @ Kirroughtree organised by No Fuss Events. The idea is to complete as many laps as possible of the fast flowing single track and mountain[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - I watch Russell Davies blog for my interest in mobile technology and was pleased to see this little expedition of his. On his first (and last?) ascent of Ben Nevis he strapped Nokia N95 to his chest strap on his rucksack and set it to post live photos & GPS locatio[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - Shane Ohly has set a new winter record for the ramsay round in 29hrs and 59mins and 34seconds. To date there have been only 45 successful finishers of the ramsay round. Charlie Ramsay was the first person to complete the round in 1978 in a time of 23hrs and 58 min[...] Read More »

I received an email from Claire MacLeod to let me know about the inaugural Slacklining Masters, which will be held in Fort William, Scotland, “will be kicking off at 12pm on Saturday 23rd February at the Lochaber Leisure Leisure Centre playing fields with the Grand Final at 4pm.” Dust [...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Today its Links@Lunch as I didn’t get to write these last night. Here’s the stuff during the week we wished we’d talked more about: — It’s “Groovy Shoe” time. We got to be careful not to show Eoin these or he’ll be off to[...] 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 »

NEWBRIDGE, KILDARE (Team Geared Up) - What did all the adventurers do to deserve this?! We’ve already had Joe Simpson’s ‘Beckoning Silence’ last night, Beyond Endurance tonight, and now there’s a choice of items to watch on Wednesday. If you’re in Dublin there[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - O.k., I normally don’t post specifically about these sort of things but having received an email from Dave MacLeod today promoting it, I thought it would be worth giving a mention. As it’s about to enter winter, we’ll all need some inspiration[...] Read More »