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Dear Friends and Members of Club Fat Ass,
As we savor the last glorious weeks of summer, I hope you find time to hit the great outdoors and your favorite trails and mountain peaks. September and October promise a busy event schedule featuring an extension to the The Bagger Challenge and everything from short, easy trail runs to a 100-mile road run.
Be sure to also remember the traveling t-shirt contest and Fat Ass Festival of Outdoor Adventures while you are out and about. There are some great prizes for the most crazy photo of your Club colors and the best short adventure video.
I am happy to announce that during last week's Mary Leliveld's Happy Trail Run in memory of a friend and CFA member who left us too early, her friends and the club raised $334 toward a Tri-BC fund set up in Mary's name. Thanks to everybody who participated and contributed. Please remember that anybody can donate to the fund all year round. Information about the fund is posted here.
Last year (2010) Tri-BC awarded three athletes with $250 each: Connor Foreman (junior), Clarke Lindt and James Cook (age groupers).
A reminder to please add all your event, travelling colour and bagger photos on Flickr to the CFA Flickr group and tag them appropriately. Instructions on how to do that are posted here.
Happy trails!
Sibylle Tinsel
Chief Executive Fat Ass |
UPCOMING EVENTS
 Bagger Challenge. Extended! 1 April - 27 October - North Shore Mountains, BC Canada. See how many North Shore peaks you can run up and bag in a summer. The snow is melting fast on the peaks, so if you've been holding back, now's a great time to get bagging. Find out more here.
Photo left: Eric savoring the views during a recent climb.
Fall Mountain Highway Madness: 11 September - North Vancouver, BC Canada. Join us for a crazy hill workout that is sure to bust your quads. Check it out here.
 Mutha's Nature Trail Run: 2 October - Vancouver, BC Canada. Join Event Host Ryan Conroy for 10km, 25km or 50km on relatively easy trails with moderate elevation gains. More here.
Photo right: On the last 100m of Mutha's Nature Trail Run
Photo left: Finding a route around a rather large puddle on Ann's Get Your FA Off the Couch course
 Ann's Get your FA Off the Couch: 15 October - North Vancouver, BC. A fun run on winding trails and back roads of lower Seymour Mountain. Two distance options, the "Old Chesterfield" 20 km or the "Cushy Couch" 10 km. Enjoy the fall atmosphere in a temperate rain forest. Not a member yet, take out a free trial membership to see what we are all about. New membership registration for all remaining events in 2011 and all of 2012 opens after Ann's run. More info and registration here.
 Photo: Al en route to the turn around during a past Seawall 100.
Seawall 100: 22/23 October - West Vancouver, BC. An urban 100 miler, mostly on the Seawall path from the Dundarave Park in North Vancouver to UBC. Enjoy an Ultra marathon challenge with minimal concerns for naughty beasts, altitude or elevation gain. Could definitively be described as the easiest 100 miler in North America if there is such a thing as an easy 100 mile run. Custom distances of 25-50-75 miles. Find out more here.
NEWS
Steering Committee. Now is the time to get off your rear end and start thinking about joining the Club Fat Ass Steering Committee. We'll have an open meeting in October, but if you been meaning to give back, why not start now? Please contact Sibylle if you can contribute a little bit of love and enthusiasm to helping manage the club.
Membership Registration. Club membership registration for 2011 is ongoing. Yes, that means it's time to get off the couch and join the Club or renew your membership so you can benefit from all of the sweaty pleasures CFA offers. Membership for 2012 is planned to open up mid October.
 Second Annual Fat Ass Festival of Outdoor Adventures. Don't be shy: Share your short videos of awesome adventures with fellow Club members and the world at the Fat Ass equivalent of the Oscars. All submissions will be acknowledged, those with the top votes will make it to the final screening in November. If you have submissions, please upload them to YouTube, then embed it into a blog post on the CFA site. Check out details here.
Refer A Friend Contest. Check out how you can win a pair of trail shoes in the Refer a Friend Contest. Current standings here.
 Travelling Colors Contest. Share photos of your adventures wearing your Club shirt (any colour) on Flickr. Get your pals to "like" your submissions and win awesome prizes! Instructions here. A gallery of current submissions are posted here.
North Shore Bagger Challenge. A lingering snow pack has added a few extra challenges this year, but there's still plenty of time and lots of lower peaks to bag. Check out the banter and the leader board!
CAUSES YOUR CLUB SUPPORTS
Club Fat Ass and our members support a variety of charities, causes and events. Please check them out here.
If you have any causes close to your heart and want to raise awareness and/or funds let us know. A number of CFA Event Hosts use their events as fund raisers. Be sure to consider the special section on the Club website that offers ideas on how to raise money for your favorite cause while hosting a free CFA event.
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