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Dear Friends and Members of Club Fat Ass,
One would think that a dreary February is a low time for an outdoor oriented club. Not so. We had a busy month with countless Flash and Scheduled Events and media attention to boot. Here is a link to the latest media coverage of your Club, including the 2 page spread in The Globe and Mail and a radio interview on 940Montreal.
With so many new events popping up be sure to check the website for updates in between your monthly newsletter. And don't miss the Kintec Speaker Series starting with a run and seminar tomorrow night at their North Vancouver location and next Wednesday at the Vancouver store. There will be pizza and prizes and lots of time for Q&A.
Happy Trails,
Sibylle Tinsel
Chief Executive Fat Ass
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UPCOMING EVENTS
 Speaker Series - Kintec Footlabs North Vancouver. 20 February 2008 - North Vancouver. Join Club Fat Ass Business Member, Kintec Footlabs, for a 45 minute run followed by a seminar on the science of selecting footware and how to prevent injury by not getting injured in the first place. There will be pizza, a prize or two and lots of opportunity for questions and answers. This session is free and you do not need to be a member of Club Fat Ass to attend. More info and registration here.
Photo right: Squamish Scrambler Event Host, Gary Robbins, wallows in the snow
Flash - Pure Foolishness 96km. 23 February 2008 - North Vancouver, BC, Canada. A few fools are planning to run the Pure Satisfaction course four times! Join them for all or part of the foolishness. More info!
 Speaker Series - Kintec Footlabs Vancouver. 27 February 2008 - Vancouver. Same seminar, different (downtown Vancouver) location. There will be pizza, a prize or two and lots of opportunity for questions and answers. This session is free and you do not need to be a member of Club Fat Ass to attend. Register and find out more here.
Flash - Quad Qruncher. 8 March 2008 - Maple Ridge. An 80K run on the Yours Truly course. The Fools who brought you the Pure Foolishness runs want to practice fast walking uphill and to trash their quads with some fast downhill running. No need to run the full 80km if that seems a bit much to you... More details here.
Photo left: On the course of the Burnaby Mountain Run
 Burnaby Mountain Run. 9 March (note the date change) - Burnaby, BC, Canada. Check out the trails around the Simon Fraser University. Great views - weather permitting - and a killer hill! Check it out here.
Photo right: Action Jackson and Carlos the Jackal checking out a pod of farting whales just off shore while running the Juan de Fuca Trail.
Flash - Juan De Fuca Trail Run. 15 March - Jordan River, BC Canada. More details here.
 Spring Mountain Highway Madness. 16 March 2008 - North Vancouver, BC, Canada. This mind-numbing interval session is officialy held twice a year. Runners complete one or more 15 km laps (with approximately 1 km or 3,300' of elevation change per lap) on a wide dirt and gravel access road (no traffic). Check it out here!
Spring Bunny Hop. 5 April 2008 - Claremont, ON, Canada. The opportunity for Ontario members to mix and mingle and show their loyalty. This 25 km trail run takes you up and down two of the Oak Ridges Moraine forest tracks. Find out more here.
Photo right: James Sinclair, Host of the Spring Bunny Hop in Claremont, ON, at the Mountain Highway Madness 2006
2007 Travelling Colours Contest.
 We have a winner in the 2007 Travelling Colours Contest. Glenn from North Vancouver won with his photo of his uh, "arrest" in Texas. Glenn received a refund on his 2008 CFA membership. Congratulations.
 Second place goes to Rhonda for her photo up on Amasa Back, aprox 250m above the Colorado River, looking out over Long Canyon and over to Dead Horse Point. Moab Utah.
Colin's photo of his Grand Canyon R2R2R run in October takes the 3rd place.
Thank you everybody for participating. Please keep the photos coming in 2008. Note: since not all members are getting the 2008 collectors edition shirt, submissions of previous shirts are also welcome.
 You can find instructions on how to upload your photos to Flickr and enter the contest here.
2008 Shirts. Your custom-designed, no stink, Club Fat Ass ware t-shirts are being manufactured at this very moment. I expect them by the end of February/early March and will mail them out then.
If you haven't yet joined the Club, what are you waiting for? Sign-up now to participte in almost 50 free events and get a classic black technical Club t-shirt as well. Such a deal!
2008 Steering Committee. We have a strong steering committee in place for 2008, but are still looking for an enthusastic member with a vision to chair the membership committee. If you are still sitting on the fence, but would like to help out in some way, please send me a note.
 Sponsors. Please support our Business Members and their upcoming events.
Kintec Footlabs is hosting a series of seminars and runs (see upcoming events) to help you prevent injuries and keep moving in a positive direction.
Photo right: Graham Archer conducting a gait analysis during a past seminar at the Kintec Footlab location in North Vancouver.
Heather and Sophia from Active Life Physiotherapy (ALP) will be at various CFA events in 2008. They are planning a Performance Evaluation workshop for CFA members in the spring… stay tuned! More information can be found on their website www.activelifephysio.ca.
ADMINISTRIVIA
CFA Website. Our website upgrade last month went very smoothly. Thanks to Ran Katzman, who has spent numerous hours learning how to become a Drupal hacker ;-)
We noticed that new web account confirmation emails might have ended up in your spam box. This issue should be fixed now.
We also added a Gmap module. Event Hosts now can embed a Google map on their agenda page, to make it very easy for members and guests to find a CFA event.
A reminder that website help is posted here. Instructions on how to upload photos and use Flickr to get photos on the Club Fat Ass website are here.
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PAST EVENT RESULTS AND REPORTS
 Capilano Canyon Night Run. Both Event Hosts were out of action, so reports from the field are second-hand. Nobody got lost to death and the evening concluded with a great potluck at the Yellow Beacon. Results, photo and a report here.
Photo left: We don't just run during the Mardigras version of the Capilano Canyon Night Run ...
Photo right: At the start of the 2008 Squamish Scrambler
 Squamish Scrambler. Event Host - Gary Robbins. As people trickled into the North Shore Athletics in Squamish, the weather tempted us with patches of blue and views of the surrounding snow covered peaks. Could we really get lucky for the third straight year?
Thankfully it rained to an elevation of about 1000m throughout the week, which is right at the parking lot trail head for this snowshoe run, and all 4x4 vehicles were able to make it to the starting point without issue. We had six car pool vehicles and I greatly thank all who offered up their trucks up for transport on the day!
 Even as we all collected in the parking area for our starter photo the skies played with us. A small blue patch here, some climbing cloud cover there...maybe, just maybe it would clear completely for us! This dream was quickly put to rest however, for as we ascended the trail the cloud cover grew thicker, the temperature dipped, and the snow started to fly! We had one brief vantage point back over Squamish after about fifteen minutes of snowshoeing, but the rest of the day would be spent in a winter wonderland.
Photo left: Trish piping in the Haggis
Run For The Haggis. Event Host - Allan MacMordie. A short 8km run followed by a tradional Robbie Burns dinner, complete with pipers (Thanks, Trish) piping in the Haggis, the address to the Haggis, live music and poetry. Lots of laughter and new friends and a little bit of Scotch whisky.
Photo right: Starters at the Lynn Loop Night Run
 Flash - Lynn Loop Night Run. Event Host - Colin Freeland. At first I thought it was just going to be Pano and myself running, Monty and Penny had to cancel. Then Ron call at about 8:40 saying he is on his way and John was running over. The reporter for the Globe and Mail showed up (Patrick) but just to talk and not run. Pano showed up with a friend and then we had 5 runners. It was a cold clear night and all the puddles where frozen, which ment no mud on the shoes. I was suprised at how much snow was on the trails. We had to take care it lots of spots exceptionally on the stair that were covered in ice. The clear skies plus the snow made it very easy to see your way. The trail was well tracked in the snow. We all stay together in a group for most of the run. The offical finish time was 1 hour and 8 min. More here.
CONTESTS
 2008 Travelling Colours Contest. Same contest, same rules, new year. Pictures of your 2008 adventures wearing your Club shirt (any colour) can be posted to Flickr following the instructions here. All submissions to date are posted here.
Photo right: Action Jackson hucks a big cliff on his snowshoes.
2008 Point Series. Same contest, same rules, new year. Up-to-date standings here. Read about how to collect points here.
CAUSES YOUR CLUB SUPPORTS
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.
Relay for Dafur. A situation that deserves your attention. A free adventure for anyone with the right stuff in beautiful BC.
BC Lung Association. Event Host, Craig Moore, uses his events to raise awareness and funds for the BC Lung Association.
Mary Leliveld Tri BC Fund. Mary was a friend and member of Club Fat Ass. The fund was established in her memory to help deserving athletes get to competitions they otherwise might not be able to race in.
PRPAWS (Powell River Parks and Wilderness Society
The boys who ran the Sunshine Coast Trail 180 in 2003 and 2004 vowed to help raise funds for PRPAWS, a society that aims to protect old growth forest in the Powell River area.
SPONSORS
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