Erika Alvarado: The Woman Behind Atacama Spirits Gravel
What makes people willingly ride into one of the harshest environments on Earth?
In this episode of Zone2Speak, I’m joined by Erika Alvarado, triathlete, endurance athlete, and founder of Atacama Spirits Gravel, an ultra-endurance gravel race set in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Erika shares the story behind creating Atacama Spirits Gravel, the realities of organizing an event in such a remote environment, and what riders discover about themselves once they’re alone in the desert.
This episode is about more than gravel racing. It’s about creating spaces where people meet themselves when…
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