Team Geared Up

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) 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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The first Beast of the East triathlon was held around the hills of Wicklow today and was won by Fernando Fuentes and our own Jackie O! Y’all know Jackie well from her mountain biking exploits and this was a super for win for her as she goes from strength to st[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Last night’s Wicklow Tri Club Amphibian King Aquathon may have clashed with the last Leinster League IMRA race (won by John Brooks and Erin Roberts) but as you can see from the photo above plenty of female mountain runners chose the former! The race involved 7[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Well Grainne told me not to do it on the mountain bike but I did it anyway!! I could’ve borrowed a road one but for all the difference it would make to someone as slow as me….. I’m talking about the Naas Wheelworx Tri Club Dirty Weekend Duathlon in[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Even the Irish media are saying it, a standard`marathon just isn’t enough. Check out the Sunday Tribune Magazine today. On the cover is Irish Ironmen Fergus and Alan Ryan from Skerries whose brotherly competition brought them to the startline of the Klagenfurt[...] Read More »