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Aftermath of the Epic Race

Alexandre Guedes da Silva / 19.12.2009

The most dramatic consequence is the recent announcement made by Wayne Oxenham referring his retirement from Adventure Racing after five glorious years of high level racing.

However many others racers already dream about new adventures in unexplored territories. From the publications gathered in our database, is possible to read the toughs of many of the racers in quite impressive and dramatic reports. Also was amazing to discover the enormous efforts that many volunteer blogers did in reporting the race. Also important was, to understand the opinion of the fans about the coverage of the race, which varied from a full satisfaction to utter despair. However all of them recalls that it was really exciting the suspense over the final days of the competition and the uncertainty over the final scoring.

One point that we did really fail, was putting clear to everybody that we were working closer with SleepMonsters (I am currently the Portuguese Editor) which were our arm in the daily storytelling of the race. In fact, we invited three Sleepmonsters editors (Rob Howard, Anne Marie and Wladimir Togumi), which reported independently in three different languages (English, French and Portuguese) exposing all race insights in more than 30 rich contributions. Other poorly understood aspect was the reliability and credibility of the information passed over the twitter information system, which in fact was originated by the race staff/controllers and were completely accurate.

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