Team Geared Up

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) What is it with these geographical clusters of super-rowers!? Following on from our post about the three oarsmen from Northern Ireland off to Beijing, Fiola and Valerie (herself an expert master rower!) let us know about these three from Killarney that are Olympic c[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) With a trip to Finland for the international Wife Carrying Championships as the prize I’m sure the competition was absolutely fierce in Sneem for the Irish heats of the Sneem Wife Carrying Competition! According to Valerie, Kerry is the maddest county in the w[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Valerie’s been busy snapping away at more adventurous events in Kerry! This time she was taking photos at a 5k fun run in Killarney National Park in aid of Kerry Hospice. That shot above is Susan Fitzgerald and Aisling Hegarty. Breda Barrett Gneeveguilla AC [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) So the race to the finish is on! They’re expecting the first teams to finish The Turas this morning, a whole day early! They must be flying through those transitions. We’ve got these photos again from Valerie O’ Sullivan which give a great idea o[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) News and photos from The Turas from Valerie O’ Sullivan who was at the night transition point at Gougane Barra. She noted that first team in were Lafuma followed by The Kiwi’s Adventure Sport. Check out the most recent report here and the leaderboard loo[...] 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) Adventure photographer and friend of TGU Valerie O’ Sullivan has just sent us the first photo from The Turas, Ireland’s World’s Series Adventure Race happening right now in Co. Kerry. Today is another gear check day (I’d say that’s an e[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Here’s some more of Valerie O’ Sullivan’s beautfiul outdoor photographs taken during the Focus Ireland Four Peaks Challenge, which aims to raise over €400,000 to combat homelessness. 500 climbers tackled the highest peak in each province last [...] Read More »