South Pole Sponsorship

[GerryC]

So here's the plan..............
We are entering the centenary of the heroic age of polar exploration.
One of my all time heroes (apart from Joey Dunlop) is Tom Crean.
I have done the South Georgia traverse and now need a greater challenge.
So I have a cunning plan...........

The sled is built, the wife's pooch seemed happy enough harnessed to it tonight. Given a little more snow I could make it half way to Dublin tonight (assuming I'm not mugged in Limerick).

The only constraint now between me and the far south is funds ..........

Well ye are the quick boys and girls; there was no need to ask...........
I can already hear the rustling of €50 notes being stuffed into envelopes.

Just send to Gerry C
By posting on to Tralee
Mark it south pole
Go on, bother your hole
Address to PO box 3

The dog's name is Trevor
He unbelievably clever.
Stuff in the notes
You pile of old dotes
And hasten me on this endeavour

The missus is coming around
After I prepared the ground
Her one hesitation
A wee reservation
Is the safety of her hound

 

[Aidan1150]

A dog with HID lights, jaysus but you have thought of everything Gerry.

The cheque, as they say, is in the post.

 

[Timolgra]

Brilliant Gerry, I'm in

Should the hound fail, use the breeze
We tried this, erm, without ease

The driver shouted mush
And push y'fecker, push

He hit the deck with an almighty moan
And the sled took off all on it's own

Gathering pace with it's own goal
He chased the bastard to the South Pole

 

[Glenboy]

Is it a scam, or even a scim,
He’s got fifty from Aidan
And possibly Tim

Or am I being too suspicious
Gerry’s exploits
Are always ambitious

To follow the tracks
Of the heroes of old,
Shackelton, Scott, Amundsen – Roald

And our own Tom Crean
Also from Kerry
Has lit a fire under the bold Gerry

I’ve read RRs
From far and near
But one thing is very clear

Never before
Have I seen a photo
Of a man at the Pole, beside his moto

So off with my hat
To the man from Tralee
Will he get there, we’ll wait and see

But wait a minute
I hear a penny drop
To check the web, off I pop

Sure enough,
In Annascaul (Co.Kerry)
There is the answer to it all

Now I know
Where he’s really bound
With a mighty thirst and his trusty hound

Ten pints from Aidan
And more from Tim
We won’t be hearing much from him (for a while ...)

 

[Timolgra]

Sporting a moustache and comparatively thin
I once stood at the South Pole Inn
waiting a while I knocked at the door
enquiring of Crean who's sadly no more

 

[Timolgra]

Never before
Have I seen a photo
Of a man at the Pole, beside his moto

In '92 a Jap named Shinji Kazama
Reached the pole on his shiny Yamaha

 

[GerryC]

The year it was 75
And I had just arrived
Finally got a big bike
A 500 four if you like.

Living on the East coast
Kerry appealed to me most
Traveling through Annascaul
To the inn I made a call

The place it was unclean
I had not heard of Crean
He was not then famous
First name could be Seamus

Started to find out
What it was all about
A yet discovered hero
A profile well below zero

He had served with Scott
And seemed to be forgot
Also South with Ernest
A test for the sternest

A man as hard as nails
Suffered many travails
Came home to an inn
Retirement to begin

Said little of his trip
Buttoned up his lip
Up a bit from Lispole
A pub, the South Pole

He lived a a life obscure
In a manner quiet demure
Passed on in thirty eight
And got famous very late

Discovery and Terra Nova
To the pole he did go for
Endurance followed after
Triumph from disaster

The savage ocean cross
Did Crean and the Boss
To Georgia of the South
A hero there's no doubt

If on the road to Dingle
In the inn you must mingle
To Tom a worthy shrine
Fit for a hero sublime

 

[Brendy]

I have a challenge for ya!!!

Ride from the South Pole to the North Pole. It can be done in one day!!!

Like the "South Pole" pub in Kerry, there is a "North Pole" pub in Donegal!!
Its in a place called Dumfries/Dunfries in Inishowen, north Donegal.

Brendy

 

[Jockser]

I have a challenge for ya!!!

Good man Brendy
What date had you in mind for your North Pole to South Pole Run ?
I reckon there's plenty of peeps on here that would fancy that one

 

[Padge]

I have a challenge for ya!!!

Ride from the South Pole to the North Pole. It can be done in one day!!!

Like the "South Pole" pub in Kerry, there is a "North Pole" pub in Donegal!!
Its in a place called Dumfries/Dunfries in Inishowen, north Donegal.

Brendy

Sounds great.. Let us know the date you're planning to lead this run (I need to advanced notice to the wife)

Oh. Will there be stickers????

 

[Aidan1150]

Let us know the date you're planning to lead this run

Date needed please Brendy. Good man yourself.

 

[NI Phil]

Date needed please Brendy. Good man yourself.

Please give me a bit of notice as I will also have to obtain permission

 

[Ogmios]

I'm in!

so long as we dont have to go through Mauritania.....

 

[davidgibson999]

Really looking forward to it Brendy

 

[edmac]

Good man Brendy
What date had you in mind for your North Pole to South Pole Run ?
I reckon there's plenty of peeps on here that would fancy that one

I'd fancy that one too

 

[frank1200]

I have a challenge for ya!!!

Ride from the South Pole to the North Pole. It can be done in one day!!!

Like the "South Pole" pub in Kerry, there is a "North Pole" pub in Donegal!!
Its in a place called Dumfries/Dunfries in Inishowen, north Donegal.

Brendy

i like a challenge

 

[Jaws100]

Aye... go on then I'd fancy that one too

 

[Mide]

We're in too!!! Good man Brendy

 

[Timolgra]

Can a foreigner come too?

 

[nud1e]

NorthPole to SouthPole 470 km