Huairasinchi AR World Series is a three day adventure competition that is held in Ecuador every year organized by Proyecto Aventura. It is currently the highest race in the world due to the high altitudes in Ecuador and also one of the most diverse, thanks to Ecuador's wonderful landscape. This year, the competitors began the race on the 13th of February and the last team arrrived well past sunset on the 15th. I volunteered and was part of the organization team working at setting up, registering the teams, following the race, blogging and generally being involved in all the aspects of the competition. Proyecto Aventura and the main volunteers arrived to the resgistration site in the night of the 11th of February to set up and worked all day on the 12th carrying out the registration, generl assembly, press conference and campsite. For the following four days, everyone involved in the competition began work in the early hours of the morning carrying on to past midnight meaning that sleep was not often as everyone had to be available to follow the ongoing race. The race finished late on the 15th and culminated in the awards ceremony in the afternoon of the 16th.
Personally, I was part of the principal set-up team, meaning that we were stationed in one place where we were able to constantly update the website and blog, transport anything that was needed to the various locations of the competition and set-up and take down everything that was used. It is an activity that I would love to be involved in again.
(These are articles that were written by me at the time of the race)
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