It is Semana Santa in Antigua right now, this old, magical colonial town hosts over hundreds of thousands of pilgrims through the week to celebrate the death of Christ. This is the town we call home whilst Team Impact is prepping #GuatemalaImpact and it truly is one of the worlds hidden gems. Feliz Semana Santa to all our partners in Guatemala... 📸 @adamdickens
A lot of Impact Runners start off nervously dipping their toe in the Impact waters... It doesn't last long. Within hours, the entire group is effervescent, bubbling and creating a community that lives long after the final runner has crossed the finish line.
New member of Team Impact, the dashing @davmatter, undertakes his new role as Chief Rake Man with the gravitas it deserves...
The Sustainable Development Goals are inherently global. To achieve them, we must reach far outside of our own worlds... We must work with every single community, culture and country. Along that journey, we better be ready to discover things we never knew. What #ReducedInequality means to the people of New York, London and Chicago is unique... And what it means to the people of Quetzaltenango, Nkope or Kakani...is unique. This journey to the future global community we are all building will need to go through all these places along the way...
Taking on the work in our Gautemalan Finca makes for a pretty brutal day...
The race that's not a race. The stories of our Impact Runners are what inspires us to keep finding new ways to develop the Impact dream.
The best way to cool down in the lava fields...
Through the lava... Through the heat. We run. #powerofrunning 📸 @adamdickens
On your right, we have a man storming his way to a new course record, by over an hour. On your left, we have a man in a blue tutu running a brutal trail marathon on an active volcano. #powerofrunning 📸 @adamdickens
**LAUNCH OFFER** Guatemala Impact 2020 Registration is now open! For those signing up in our first week, we are adding a bonus two day trek up to the summit of Acatenango Volcano. You will be hiking higher than the neighbouring active volcano, the fearsome Volcan de Fuego. This means you will be camping in the most perfect place to watch the lava flows, the multiple releases of pressure... And then a sunrise like no other. This will be free for you and any friends that register for Guatemala Impact 2020 in the next 7 days... So... Lets get you signed up!
The volcano awaits you in March 2020...
Registration opens today @12noon BST
#GuatemalaImpact returns for 2020
9 months ago, Fuego Volcano erupted. Hundreds were killed, thousands displaced and lives changed irrevocably. This land, run by @seresglobal now forms a block on which to rebuild. It is a place to train, to learn... Resilience in crop yields despite the ever-changing climate. Diversity in crops to tackle malnutrition. Techniques in permaculture to combat the land-ravishing effects of monoculture. This was not the original plan for the land, but the course of development is not linear, it is transient. And as the earth changes, we must also. There is no other choice. 📸 @adamdickens
7 days until Guatemala Impact 2020 is open for international registration...
Our final finisher takes in his moment after almost 9 hours of running through hot dusty lava fields and two summits of our volcano... This moment holds a thousand stories and silent motivations that, as runners, we understand completely and yet we never need to ask what those motivations consist of. #powerofrunning #GuatemalaImpact
From the #GuatemalaImpact Team 2019...over and out. Thank you to each of these awesome humans who worked together to make the impossible possible. It's not always glamorous, and it doesn't involve a lot of sleep, but it's a truly special time that we share together! 📸 @runnerwilson
That's a wrap on #GuatemalaImpact 2019...the last of the Impact team flies out today, packing all our kit but also a thousand memories, moments and extraordinary relationships. This race gave us goosebumps all day. And all week we were simply thrilled to show off this utterly beautiful, majestic, enigmatic country. Thank you to @caras_alegres and @seresglobal for all your work, all year round for your communities. And thank you to @oldtownoutfitters and @earthlodgeguatemala for helping us bring Guatemala to life for our runners. Registration for Guatemala Impact 2020 opens 1st April...