A Snow Year at the Spring MHM

 

 

There are still some cool blue CFA shirts to be had. Get yours now here.

And no, our poster children Dom and Cheryl are not on sale, sorry!



 

As promised in the last newsletter, here is your chance to vote for your favorite Traveling Colours Contest photo.

How? It's easy: Just click on this link to photo submissions and follow the instructions there.

The winner will get a refund on their 2006 Club Membership dues. There are prizes for the runners-up as well.

'Missed the deadline for submitting photos of yourself and your friends in the blue Club colors? Don't worry... if you renewed your membership or are a new member you can expect to have your 2006 Club t-shirt by late February. We'll be running the contest again this year, so start working on your poses!

Happy Trails,

Sibylle Tinsel
Chief Executive Fat Ass

A full month into the new year, and I seem to be keeping my resolution quite well. Although I don't have a resolution event until the Dirty Duo in March, all my training goals have been met in January. 50 km/week, riding to school 3 times/week, eating better, and keeping it all in a log.

In many ways, the Yours Truly 50k is similar to Club Fat Ass events.

A few month ago I happily blogged about running in the rain...How I loved it! Forget it. Don't hold me to it - enough is enough. Out of the last 44 days it rained 42 of them - hard!

My motivation is definitely fading. Last weeks training consisted of 2 half hearted weight sessions at home, one mid-week run, 2 hours of downhill skiing with my children, 2 hours of snowshoe hiking on Grouse and one guilt induced hour at the gym.

How is the rest of rain soaked Vancouver doing? What about the snow and ice in the rest of the country? How are the New Year's Resolutions coming along? Why don't you take a moment and fill us in on your training and how you deal with the weather. What the heck, if you live somewhere warm and dry you can share that too - rub it in!

Not sure if this would count as vote influencing, but Gary Robbins' photo of his exuberant KneeKnacker finish last July is taking an early lead in the Traveling Colours Contest Vote.

Some of you might have had difficulties voting yesterday. The problem should be fixed now, please try again. Voting is open to anybody, so do tell your friends!

Vince Charbonneau was the Half Marathon Champion and rumor has it he didn't even puke!

Joe Allan was 2nd in the 20 miler in a great time of 2:49.  I think Joe also drank the most booze post run at the Duke of Wellington!

Following my last outing (New Years Day CFA-50) I figured I might be shelved forever or worse, tossed into a bag for a local charity to pick up. Luckily, I was simply laundered and shelved. I felt like a benched athlete. Hey… it wasn’t my fault the Fat Ass 50 hadn’t gone as planned, don’t take it out on me buddy. Then, things started to look up. 10 short days later I was pulled off the shelf and tossed into a big bag. This wasn’t a small gym bag it was a big rolling tote bag. We were going on a road trip! Yahoo, where we going, where we going??

The next I new I was being unloaded in a hotel room somewhere. My running buddy Garmin told me that he had checked with the satellites and we were now in southern California. Cool. I had only been down here once before and that was a couple of years ago. Oh man, was it ever good to see some sunshine after 25 or so days of rain back at home. Also, being a short sleeved shirt in Vancouver is a huge disadvantage. Cooler temps and lots of rain mean less play time. I seem to get shelved a lot. Wouldn’t it be nice to live down here all the time…

Come out and join Event Host Ryne Melcher at the Three Dolla Bill Run this Sunday, 22 January.

It's a resolution run and a celebration of life. You can choose from
10.55km, Half Marathon, 20 miles, Marathon or 50km options. One loop is 10.55km long and features 50% paved surface and 50% gravel paths through Waterloo Park, the University of Waterloo and a few quiet city roads.

You can make good time on this course as it has virtually no hills.