Team Geared Up

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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Well Lewis Gordon Pugh is the guy who has been swimming in the North and South Pole waters before so at least he’ll be used to the cold. He plans to kayak for 10 hours a day in which he hopes he will cover 100km a day. When he reaches the most Northerly poin[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Photos from day 1 of the Turas from Valerie O’ Sullivan. Thanks so much Valerie, keep ‘em coming, just look at the beautiful sky in that shot! According to the day 1 report, Team Orion Health are leading closely followed by Team Wilsa Helly Hansen which [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) With all the big teams assembling in Kerry right now for An Turas you might be tempted to give a smaller challenge a blast yourself! Entries are open till Monday for the Not the Sunday Run’s Kilbroney Challenge. This one day event takes place on Sunday 21st Ju[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - We know less about our oceans than we do about Space. Google are about to shift things a little and produce a consumer tool (a version of Google Earth) that lets you fly around the seabed, through canyons and over buried treasure. Announcing Google Ocean: The company ha[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - Just received Great Outdoors email newsletter and it’s the announcement of their annual Canoe & Kayak Sale on April 12th @ 9:30am. ….the annual clear out of our demo fleet of kayaks and any other second hand boats we’ve picked up over the la[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) If their preparations are going as well as their blog they’ll be flying! A team of Adventure Racers from the Midlands have got together with the intention of competing in An Turas Mor. It’ll be their first expedition length Adventure Race and they’[...] Read More »

SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Yesterday, I headed to Launch 2002 in Punggol, Singapore’s largest wakeboarding area. Joined up on a boat with 4 others through the invite from a friend of a friend - we had had all-types on-board from ‘never done-it’, ‘done it a few times’[...] Read More »