Team Geared Up

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 »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Record temperatures called an early halt to yesterdays La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon after one runner died on the course. Very sad news. The 35 year old runner, identified as Chad Schnieber, collapsed about mile 18 and was rushed to hospital and later confirmed to h[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) According to Marathon Guide Paula Radcliffe is to run this year’s ING New York City Marathon. “Paula is a living legend and the greatest woman marathoner,” race director Mary Wittenberg said. “Hers is the most highly anticipated return to th[...] Read More »

I’m late getting to this but what an incredible run by the king himself. Head over to Runners World to read about Haile Gebrselassie’s breaking of the marathon world record, an astonishing 2:04:26. You have to feel sorry for Tergat don’t ya? Haile says he’s overwhelmed! I be[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Geared Up Blog) - In July on enduranceplanet.com Scott Jurek made some comments about Dean Karnazes and his recent awards such as the ESPY and gracing the cover of Outside magazine and they claimed he is “America’s Best Outdoor Athlete”. Dean replied to his comme[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Can I do some fluffy links even if it’s not Friday? Sure I can, it’s good to share…… so here goes: Runners World do kit lists and here’s one for (beginner?) adventure racers. I reckon there’s a lot more stuff involved for the seri[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - A TGU reader Robert Poli has commented on the Steve Fossett search post to say he’s found something in Google Earth. Look at coordinates: N38* 50′ 04″ W118*52′45.37″ small, white, right angle image on mountainside. A quick check of the coo[...] Read More »

LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - Call in the crowd! Artificial intelligence is now being used in the form of Amazon Mechanical Turk to track Steve’s position. The idea is to complete simple tasks that people do better than computers by splitting up the images into tiny squares and getting 1000s [...] Read More »