Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Last weekend at the Trail World Challenge in Huntsville Park, Texas, ultrarunner Helena Crossan stormed to a silver medal in the first running of the event. The 50 mile off road event was held in temperatures of over 30 degrees in a four loop course, accorinding to [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) The 2008 lottery draw took place over the weekend for the Western States Endurance Run, the 100 mile long ultrarun that takes place in California every June. The reason it’s a lottery is because they get almost 1200 entrants looking to fill only 357 places and[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - I listen to Endurance Planet’s podcasts regularly but i have fallen behind recently because i lost my ipod about a month ago now. So I’m just catching up to date with all the new stories. The one that stuck out to me was t-shirt etiquette at races. End[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) From Athletics Ireland Website news just through that Helena Crossan has set a new Irish women’s ultra running record of 7:52 at the World 100k Championships in the Netherlands at the weekend. This gave her a magnificent 10th place finish! A breakthrough perfo[...] Read More »