The guru of trail running!

Jorge Cifuentes is a national athlete. He belong to the physical education school of army. He was born February 17^th, on 1978 in Los Angeles, the eitgh region of chile. Always was introvert but restless at the same time. He begin running when start school, then he was to run for arrive early to study about eught kilometers. During the secondary school in Liceo Suizo “ La Providencia” he stand out in physical education and finishing his studies he obtain goods results running in challenge of 5 and 10 km.

On 1997 when he joined to army, was selected for integrate the running elite group of army. About 2 years he competed in moinatain patrols and military pratols with different test and distances. Again he obtain a lot of podium for his unitity.

On 1999, Jorge joined the orientation team and take part of this kinf of challenge and Cross Country, too. So, he wins the competition of matrix schools.

On 2001, Jorge was assigned to represent chile and army in adventure, orientation and cross country challenge to national and international level.

Another important competences he participated were:

“Columbia Challenge” (adventure race) in Pucon, 2008

“Sudamerica de Orientacion”, Brazil of 2010.

“Expedition Race 612km” in Punta Arenas. In summer of this year.

“Abierto de Orientacion”, in Las Salinas. On June at present year.

Actually he is the couch of the north face running club and teacher and instructor of the physical education subject of army.

His challenge for this year are represent Chile running in the Military world games on july. For October he wants to take part in international competences like Copa Mercosur, in Uruguay and the Sudamericano de Punta del Este in the same country in the orientation discipline.

Personally, I changed this athlete because I admire his constance and is an example for continue my sport life having in mind the challenge I will do, but for that is necessary have the spirit, heart, force, love, encourage and believe like a Don Quijote dream as Jorge has.