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The shirt feedback has been great. Glad you like them.

Photo left: A little Ontario FA testing his dads new CFA shirt.

Vanessa Fors has invested a lot of time and love to source the fabric, an innovative material called Chitosante. She also designed the shirts and oversaw the production from beginning to end, answering a lot of anxious questions form your Chief Executive Fat Ass, measuring (thanks to our models Ean and John) and recalculating shrinkage during the screening process. I was amazed how Vanessa, noticing the large chest of one of our members, went back to the drawing table to make sure XL would be wide enough in the chest. Thanks, Vanessa! These shirts are a labour of love. Credits also go to Jess Marshall, who designed the labels and provided the screening artwork and to Michele Sherstan, who spent an evening with me packaging shirts and addressing envelopes.

The winner of the 2008 Club Point Series will receive a pair of running shoes, kindly provided by our sponsor, Kintec Footlabs. 

Please refer to Club Point Series for details on how points are allocated.

The  2007  CFA point series standings have been updated.  Check out the contest page to find out who is in the lead.

If you are unfamiliar with our Point Series you may want to read up on what the contest is about and how points are allocated.  When you participate in a scheduled CFA event, you automatically enter the contest...and the fastest will not win!

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

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!

The first annual Club Fat Ass Point Series came to a conclusion last weekend with the final event of the year, the Pure Satisfaction run.

Event Host, Craig Moore, earned 3 points for hosting this event and solidified his lead over Cheryl Johnson and Bill Dagg, who tied for 2nd place. Third place went to Desmond Mott who participated in 10 CFA events this past year.

Craig, who strategically had planned his win by hosting 2 CFA events, pre-registering, showing up for 12 events and collecting garbage along the trails (and stuffing it in his waterbottle - yuck), took home a complimentary 2006 membership in Club Fat Ass and a nice warm hoodie from North Shore Athletics.

This weekend saw a Club Fat Ass first with 2 events hosted at the same day and two Club members participating in both events. The Monty went off without a glitch in beautiful Gowland Tod Provincial Park near Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada. Doug Bodnar and Geoff Palmer took on the challenging 25km Half Monty, hopped on the ferry back to the mainland and arrived in time - well, Doug almost made it in time ;-) for the Midsummer Night version of the 7th Capilano Canyon Night Run. They definitely qualified for the "Gluttons for Punishment" category.

The Club Fat Ass Point Series has been updated with points earned during the XTC last month and Bill's Great Peak Ascent yesterday.

Bill Dagg and Craig Moore are leading with 11 points in 5 events each.  Doug MacKay is in third position with 7 points earned in 6 events.  So far Doug has participated in most CFA events this year.