18 October 2008 - 28 Starters

I am co-organising an orienteering event at UBC this Sunday so if you want to come along and try something different this is a good chance.  The courses are on a great map that covers most the campus at UBC.  We have planned a long course of 8 kms and shorter course of 5 kms although we expect you to cover about 11 kms in reality on the long and about 6.5 kms if you do the shorter course.

As some of you know Club Fat Ass had environmental friendliness on our schedule long before it was in the news.  It's a good thing that sustainability is now part of our vocabulary and hopefully soon part of all our actions.

I realized how much of an early adopter of environmentally friendly living I was when I was invited by my neighbor JoAN to participate in the Cool North Shore.

Kintec Footlabs has always been a leader in sports medicine, biomechanical assessment, patient treatment and patient education and we are looking to grow our team.  Basically, if you live an active lifestyle and enjoy helping people then we want you on our team.  We will teach you all you need to know about gait assessment, professional footwear fitting and professional brace fitting, all you need to bring to the table is a great attitude and a willingness to learn.

This just in from member Kim Taylor who has taken this class and has found it beneficial and a good cardio workout:

This one hour class  will focus on correcting and perfecting your running technique while exercising in a completely impact free environment. The class utilizes common speed and track work out formats such as pyramids, intervals and fartleck training.   Strength exercises such as A’s, B’s and C’s  and other running pattern based exercises are used improve strength and muscular balance.

The last couple months allowed me to take part in a couple pretty cool mountain bike adventures.  One was an innaugural event, The Chilko Challenge, and another was one of the best mountain bike races around, The Cheakamus Challenge.  I have written about them here:  http://grahamarcher.blogspot.com/.  You can check out each adventure with the links to the right of the page.

Anyone interested in joining me for a trip out to Penticton this Sunday for the Campbell Mountain X-Country Race, which is a 6.5 km trail race? We could go for a longer run after if it is too short for you. The race starts at 10:00 so it would involve leaving before 6:00 AM Sunday morning. I can drive if anyone wants to join me post a reply. Ryan