Team Geared Up

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Links @ lunch again. Here’s the stuff we didn’t get to talk about this week. — I’m fully expecting Tango & Cash to have these new underglow lights on their Mountain Bikes at the next event. Boys, go for blue ones, way cooler. — GoBlo[...] 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) What a cracking finish to the women’s ING New York Marathon! It doesn’t get much better! She had Wami on her heels the entire way and in the last 800 Paula seemed to kick! I watched the race in the pub at the National Athletics Stadium in Santry and ther[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Congrats again to all the adidas Dublin Marathon finishers, Irish mountain runners are listed here. Don’t miss the highlights at 6pm tonight on Setanta. Best of Luck to anyone running New York! Only 2 days to the big event. As we said before, heavy weight elit[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - DCURCC reader, Sarunas, sent in a link to FreakClimbing.com, featuring an ascent the Nose of El Capitan in 2hr 45min 45sec in Yosemite. It took Warren J Harding, Wayne Merry and George Whitmore 47 days to ascend the 1000m-high face in 1958, but the two German brothers[...] Read More »

NEWBRIDGE, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - One for our American readers. The Petzl Roctoberfest is taking place at Red River Gorge in Kentucy this weekend. As the promo says, “Come watch the world-class rockstars climb 5.14, watch great movies, take in a clinic, eat some great food, and raise fund[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - It’s your Friday links… — 1000+Vietnamese audition for Mount Everest reality show Over a thousand people arrived at Military Zone 7 Stadium in Tan Binh District last Sunday to tryout for the upcoming reality show “Everest Vietnam 2008.” -Eo[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) It’s not often a running story makes the news (unless you count Marion Jones and all that muck) but this incredible story of a Bejing hopeful featured on last nights evening news. Gilbert Tuhabonye was born in Burundi in 1974 and dreamed of a scholarship to Ame[...] Read More »