Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) He’s done it again! Another world record for Irish ultrarunner and World Record Holder Tony Mangan on the treadmill!! At last weekend’s Longford marathon Tony broke the 48 hour treadmill record in a time of 45 hours 42 minutes and 18 seconds before running the m[...] Read More »

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES (Team Geared Up) - This photo came down the wire from watershed news. “The photo of the Bottleneck was taken just after the Serbian fell,” Nicholas Rice, 23, of Hermosa Beach, said in an e-mail early Wednesday from K2 base camp. The Bottleneck photo shows a line[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I’ve been won over by the power of positive thinking! I posted before about the Beast of the East Triathlon (my first venture into the mad world of tri!) but I only vaguely mentioned that I had had a very hard time on the swim. It had gone so badly for me and [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) As you nod off tonight spare a thought for the teams of adventure racers milling around the “magical landscapes” of Tipperary, Cork and Limerick in this years Beast of Ballyhoura Adventure Challenge. I met up recently with a newly formed team who were ge[...] Read More »

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES (Team Geared Up) - Irish Climber Gerard McDonnell is missing on K2. K2 is regarded as one of the most all-round difficult mountains in the world with only around 189 climbers having reached the summit, 49 climbers have died on K2, 22 while descending it. The 37-year-old from [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Well never let it be said we don’t pander to your requests so here ya go; more photos from Valerie O’ Sullivan of the Little Bo Peep Triathlon. That’s Colette Lawlor looking happy in the water, somthing I’m learning to do myself! That’[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Eimear was on to let us know that Alan Ryan (her husband?) had just broken the Irish Ironman distance record in a time of 9 hours 17 minutes and 12 seconds in the Quelle Challenge in Roth Germany. Congrats to him!! That’s kinda incomprehensible to us mere mort[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) More congrats to Jackie O! It really was her weekend. After her success at the Beast of the East triathlon she followed it up the next day with a second place in her category at the Mountain Bike nationals. Big well done J! You really are flying! Main results can be[...] Read More »