Penpix Design Inc.

Matt Arjmandi, President

• Matt helped fix problems with an earlier website design. He also provided coaching on CSS and website best practices

BPO Canada

The guts of our "online clubhouse" need updating from time to time. Roshan Shah and the team at BPO updated our website to Drupal version 5.1 in the fall of 2007.  

Contact Printing

Contact Printing is supporting the printing of our Club brochure with a much appreciated sponsorship. A huge Thank You to Dave Brown.

Located in beautiful North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Contact is the largest full-service print shop on the North Shore.

Contact Printing & Mailing Ltd., established in 1981, is owned and operated by partners David Brown and Bob Gibson.

The 18 long-term and loyal employees pride themselves on their commitment to excellent customer service, always striving to create and nurture long term client relationships.

The company serves clients throughout British Columbia's Lower Mainland, plus from West Vancouver to Whistler, throughout the Sunshine Coast and in Washington State.

Core Running

Core Running presents the foundation level Performance Clinic.  This program will help you improve your performance and reduce your risk of injury by teaching you proper running biomechanics, strengthening your core and making your running muscles more powerful.

Open to runners of all ability levels from beginner to expert.  The North Vancouver clinic runs for 5 weeks from Sept. 21 to Oct. 26 on Monday and Friday mornings.  For complete details see www.corerunning.com.

CFA members get 10% of the clinic fee.

Program created and instructed by Curb Ivanic, MS, CSCS of Ultra Fitness and a CFA member.  Curb is a strength and conditioning coach with a masters degree in Exercise Science and enjoys running anywhere from 5K to 50KM+.

DesignR

DesignR's, Rich Rawling brings a unique perspective to his craft. A broad-ranging education background in visual design, fine arts, and engineering allows him to blend the creative visual sensibility of the fine artist with the efficiency and clarity demanded by the world of science. 

Rich's involvement with Club Fat Ass dates back it to 2000 (2 years before the birth of Club Fat Ass.) We thought we'd do something special for the 10th anniversary of the Vancouver Fat Ass 50. Rich graciously redesigned our very utilitarian website and provided a platform that served the Club during its first few years.

Dr Scott Merkley @ Aarm Dental Group

Aarm dental group dentists are dentists who share a common philosophy. We believe that high tech dental treatments and techniques are key to providing our patients with healthy, happy and beautiful smiles - for a lifetime. However, we also believe that high tech dentistry is useless unless it is married to accurate diagnosis, great clinical skills and effective communications abilities.

A very important component of Aarm’s vision is to provide its dentists and teams an opportunity to lead a balanced life between personal commitments and professional and academic excellence.

Dr. Scott Merkley worked at the Aarm Whistler clinic for the last 3 years and recently began working out of the Beach office in 2009. Scott has been a trail runner for the last 6 years and enjoys getting out on the north shore trails as much as his free time will allow. He looks forward to participating in the Club Fat Ass events throughout the year. He routinely participates in the 5 Peaks series, Mountain Madness races and completed the Knee Knacker last summer!

Have fun on the trails!

International Travel Maps and Books

ITMB kindly donated various maps to Club Fat Ass's travelling members.  If you are heading of to any of the countries below, please contact Club Fat Ass and we can provide you with one of the dontated maps.  If you'd like to purchase other maps, ITMB offers Club members a 5% member's discount.

Bahamas
Germany
Sao Paulo City Map
South America: South
Venezuela Travel
South America: South
Romania Travel
Ho Chi Minh/Saigon
Rio De Janeiro City
Tunisia
Gabon
Malta & Gozo
Hokkaido (Japan)
Lima (Peru) City
East Kootenay Region
Estonia Travel
Harare/Bulawayo Map
Sarawak Travel
US Virgin Islands
Togo/Benin Travel
Guianas
Montevideo
Stein Valley (BC)
Thompson/Cariboo

ITMB Publishing (International Travel Maps and Books) prepares detailed travel maps and atlases of countries and regions around the world, specializing in Africa, Asia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

As a publisher, ITMB has released more than 325 titles to date and is adding about 30 new titles each year. We also distribute the products of other publishers such as Canada Map Office, Borch, Freytag & Berndt, Hema, and Nelles.

We also have a retail store in Metro Vancouver, at 12300 Bridgeport Road, in Richmond, half a block west of IKEA. The location carries an extensive range of travel maps, globes, and travel guides.

KINeSYS

"Protecting the Health of Active Families"

Our vision is for KINeSYS Inc. to be a pioneer and global leader in the Performance Bodycare and Suncare categories, with a reputation for quality and innovation respected by our business partners and consumers. KINeSYS will prove that a company can be profitable and yet maintain its integrity and ethics.

KINeSYS' Jeff Kletter has provided Club Fat Ass events with great draw prizes designed to keep CFA members protected from the elements for several years.

Mountain Equipment Co-Op

The MEC is Canada's one-stop shop for outdoor gear. A business co-operative, they are also quiet supporters of many grassroots outdoor clubs such as Club Fat Ass.

MEC and Club Fat Ass actively support several common causes. One of those causes is Porter's Progress, an organization based in Kathmandu, Nepal that helps poor porters obtain shoes and clothing.

The MEC encourages its employees to lead a healthy outdoor lifestyle. It's not surprising then, that many MEC employees are Club members.

The 2005 Club colors, your blue Club T-shirt, is from the MEC.

A particular "thanks" to Laurie Edward, Community Involvement Coordinator at the MEC for her help during 2005 and 2006. Laurie helped the Club obtain a sustainability grant from MEC in 2004. The MEC helped get the club off the ground by supporting our social and environmental efforts . Thanks, as well, to the following MEC employees for participation in or supporting Club Fat Ass with their time and advice: Keith Nichol, Gord Betenia, Peter Robinson, Peter Carr-Locke, Gord Rose, Karen Berrisford, Matthew Struthers,  Lorie Moody, Kate Scholz, Denise Taschereau and the many MEC employees who are also Club members!

NextPhase Strategy

 Ullrich Schade, President

• Ullrich and his team helped us to design the "porker" logo that you can see in the upper left corner of this website and on your Club t-shirts
• Ulrich also helped us with an earlier newsletter template

Peak Centre Vancouver

We are Canada's leader in individualized training solutions. Whether you exercise for performance improvements, health or fitness, you are driven by results. We too are driven by results, because your success is our goal.

We all have goals. In sport, health, family, careers, or life. The best way to achieve these goals is through measurable objectives. Small steps taken towards large accomplishments. But what is that first step? In the performance, health and fitness fields, we are unique in that we provide you with an accurate, objective, knowledge-based starting point for your fitness. We have the ability to measure your current fitness level, track improvements and validate your training regimen.

Point Grey Naturopathic Clinic

Dr. Pushpa Chandra is a Vancouver based Naturopathic Physician with an integrative approach to healthcare. Her background includes over 27 years of acute care hospital experience as a registered nurse and 22 years at BC Children's Hospital in critical care, working with the province's sickest children. She specializes in Pediatrics and Sports Medicine.

A competitive sports enthusiast, Dr. Pushpa has completed multiple marathons and triathlons, including Ironman Canada in 2000. She is passionate about working with athletes to help them achieve their personal best. Her athletic background gives her a unique insight into Sports Medicine, having suffered through various injuries over many years of competition. She believes in providing the body with the tools it needs to heal itself. Dr. Pushpa's philosophy is based on prevention and maintaining optimal health through Naturopathic medicine. She believes that nutrition and exercise play a vital role in the maintenance of good health.

Reaching out to the community is also one of Dr. Pushpa's passions. She has been involved in a variety of community health seminars, and has given public talks about health and wellness. In 2004, Dr. Pushpa traveled to Chandigar India as a volunteer with Operation Rainbow Canada, an organization that provides medical treatment and surgery to underprivileged children.

Rackets and Runners

Kevin Thomson at Rackets and Runners provided 100 cotton t-shirts for the 10th anniversary of the Vancouver Fat Ass 50. If you come across one of these historical t-shirts, hang onto it as it's a true collector's item!  Kevin also helped to source our first official Club Fat Ass shirts in 2003 and 2004.  The first edition was a green technical shirt from GAIA.  The second year we went with a red shirt, also from GAIA. Kevin expertly handled everything from ordering through to screen printing.