Travelling Colours Contest 2011

As the year came to a close, there were some interesting battles going on between the top finishers in the 2011 Travelling Colors Competition.  Tactics included:  promoting t-shirt photos on Facebook and Flickr with the message to friends and family being, "Vote for me!"  All's fair in love and war! 

 

Travelling Colours Contest 2012

This is the 8th year of our popular photo contest. Rules are posted here.

Clicking on a photo (they will be posted below as they come in) will get you to an awesome photo sharing site called Flickr. If you have a Flickr account (free) you can add Club Fat Ass to your contact list, join the CFA group pool, comment on the photos, mark them as favourites and much more. Make sure to submit contest photos to the Flickr CFA group pool and tag them with TravellingColoursContest2012 TravellingColoursContest and whatever else you see fit. This way you are in control of your photo and you keep the copyright.

Detailed instructions on how to upload photos are posted here.

The winner of the 2012 Travelling Colours Contest will receive a full refund on the 2012 membership dues.

The latest submissions to the 2012 Travelling Colours Contest will be posted in the slideshow below as they come in.

 

Travelling Colours Contest 2010

This is the 6th year of our popular photo contest. Rules are posted here.

Clicking on a photo (they will be posted below as they come in) will get you to an awesome photo sharing site called Flickr. If you have a Flickr account (free) you can add Club Fat Ass to your contact list, join the CFA group pool, comment on the photos, mark them as favourites and much more. Make sure to submit contest photos to the Flickr CFA group pool and tag them with TravellingColoursContest2010 TravellingColoursContest and whatever else you see fit. This way you are in control of your photo and you keep the copyright.

Detailed instructions on how to upload photos are posted here.

The winner of the 2010 Travelling Colours Contest will receive a full refund on the 2011 membership dues. Second place will go home with a sock package kindly sponsored by business member Kintec Footlabs.

The latest submissions to the 2010 Travelling Colours Contest will be posted in the slideshow below as they come in.

Travelling Colours Contest 2009

 

As the year came to a close, there were some interesting battles going on between the top finishers in the 2009 Travelling Colors Competition.  Tactics included:  promoting t-shirt photos on Facebook and Flickr with the message to friends and family being, "Vote for me!"  All's fair in love and war! 

Travelling Colours Contest 2008

We have a winner in the 4th annual Traveling Colours Contest. Lucinda won with her photo of the shoe tree along Highway 50.  Lucinda won a refund on her membership fees for 2009. Second place goes to Colin's beautiful photo of Tyax Lake and third place is awarded to John, being a very happy Fool.

A slideshow of all 2008 contributions is posted here.

Travelling Colours Contest 2007

We have a winner in the 2007 Travelling Colours Contest. Glenn from North Vancouver won with his photo of his arrest (ahem) in Texas. Glenn will receive a refund on his 2008 CFA membership. Congratulations.

Second place goes to Rhonda for her photo up on Amasa Back, aprox 800' above the Colorado River, looking out over Long Canyon and over to Dead Horse Point. Moab Utah.

Colin's photo of his R2R2R run in October takes the 3rd place.

Thank you everybody for participating. Please keep the photos coming in 2008 (since not all members got the collectors edition shirt, submissions of previous shirts are welcome)

You can see a slideshow of submissions here.

Travelling Colours Contest 2006

We have a winner in the 2006 Travelling Colours Contest.  Peter from Montreal won with his series of photos running through the Grand Canyon (photos #24 - #34 below).  Peter will receive a 2007 CFA membership. Congratulations.  Second place goes to Rhonda for her photos of planting rice in the paddies of Japan.  Gary's emotional finisher photo at the Diez Vista 50km takes the 3rd place.

Thank you everybody for participating.  Please keep the photos coming in 2007 (since not all members got the collectors edition shirt, submissions of previous shirts are welcome)

#50. Chris on Baffin Island
#48 and #49. Just a quick update to let you know that a small but fun bunch of the local Club Fat Assers left the cold and snow on the ground a week or so back and went over to warmer climates for some training er... running. We all planned our winter warm weather escape and went and ran the Honolulu International Marathon, held December 10th. Everyone with our group finished the marathon with times in the 3:45 to 6 hour range. It was a hot and hard course... But yes, while we were out there running we were all thinking of it "as a great training run" for the Jan 1st event. Should be pretty similar conditions right?? Ha-ha...Please see the attached shot of our group, left to right Dan, Sheldon, Ruby,Carie, Diane, Rhonda, and Pete SS. 3 generations of proud Fat Ass shirt wearers.Anyway, if you get a sec and want to post a fresh warm weather picture on the site go ahead and use this one with the above data if you like.Cheers, Pete PS   You would have laughed, I wore my CFA shirt to the big expo and had no less than a half a dozen people stop me and compliment me on it. One guy (Ithink he was from Boston) was all keen on signing up for the club just so he could get a CFA shirt...
#46. Bradley on the Great Wall of China  near Badaling.  Lots of stairs to run up and down, It's over 2,400 km long should work well for a Club Fat Ass event...	#47. Bradley at Tiananmen Square
#44. Bradley at the Tuscon Marathon	#45. Bradley at Tiananmen Square
#42. Gary: "Diez Vista took it all outa me!"	#43. Gary: "These are a bit late since we took this roadtrip in March, however, we proudly displayed our CFA colors everywhere along the way."
#40. Mark and Gary on top of The Black Tusk at the end of August.	#41. Gary at the Diez Vista Finish: "Man was I happy to finish this one!"
#39. From here....	#40. To here!
#37. Ean, Carlos and a curious gray whale at Sombrio Point while running the Juan de Fuca Marine Trail in September	#38. Mark and Gary on top of Sky Pilot during our spectacular September weather.
35. Claudia writes:This picture is from my trip wearing the club shirt in one of the nature wonders at Yoho national Park - Takakkaw Falls. Takakkaw Falls is the second highest waterfall in Canada. Takakkaw means "magnificent" in Cree. And it is. I love how the top of it "blasts" off a ledge and down over a thousand feet to finally hit the bottom. Very powerful.	#36. Baldwin at Blunderland at Burning Man
# 33. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim: Point Sublime	# 34. Peter at Point Sublime during his Rim to Rom Grand Canyon crossing.
#34 - #24. Peter writes: "You may remember that I was forced to the sidelines in 2005 due to injury. It was good to take a breather as I focussed on coaching Daniele (mybetter-half) to her first marathon. She even ran my 50K race in July!!Still, I've missed  trail running too much so to get back in form I ran the Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim during our July vacation in Arizona. Too bad it was during record temperatures of 115C in the shade.I have enclosed a series of pictures I took during this solo run in the heat. I doubt that any of them are suitable for the Travelling T-shirt display (too small) but I thought you'd enjoy them none-the-less.Geologically speaking, descending into the canyon is a descent into history as one passes ancient sedimentary layers until reaching heaven in the form of "Vishnu Schist" at the Colorado River. I was awestruck by the time-travelling aspect of descending into the canyon so I thought it was appropriate to travel backwards in CFA history with the t-shirts as well. Ciao,Peter" Peter wore 3 generations of Club shirts (red, blue and black) during his descent and ascent of the Canyon. Pictures of him in the red and blue shirts during this run are posted in the photo gallery: http://www.clubfatass.com/image/tid/49
# 31. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim.	# 32. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim: Point Sublime Campsite
# 29. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim	# #30. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim.
# 27. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim: Ribbon Falls	# 28. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim: Ribbon Falls
#25. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim: Bright Angel Ascent	#26. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim: Bright Angel Trail
# 23. Peter taking the CFA shirt on a Rim to Rim Run through the Grand Canyon: North Rim	# 24. Peter crossing the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim: Bright Angel Ascent
# 21. Geoffrey taking it easy at the rim of the Grand Canyon	# 22. Ludovic taking in the views during a test run for the Full Monty near Victoria  BC.
#19. Glenn writes: "This was taken in Memphis, Tennessee at the World Chamionship BBQ Cookoff ...also known as "The Superbowl of Swine". I thought it was perfectly appropriate for our Club Fat Ass mascot...in fact a few people saw the shirt assumed I was from one of the teams. So here I am stuffing my face with some award winning BBQ ribs from the Bodine Team...no apologies to our vegetarian members."	#20. Geoffrey getting ready for his kicks on route 66
#17. Michele braving the elements at windswept Cape Spear, Nfdl., Canada	#18. Carlos (middle) at the Vancouver Island 10okm Ultra
# 15. There is a saying in Japan that when the cuckoos return, it is time for rice planting. So, when the agriculture students at Takushoku University in Fukagawa, Hokkaido, Japan, saw Rhonda show up in her hat and this year's Club Fat Ass colours, they knew it was time. Rhonda assures us her seedling rows were spaced well and straight.	# #16. Rhonda planting rice in the paddies of Japan
#13. Grin and Bare it: (from left) Heather, Debbie and Angela just ran the Boston Marathon last Monday and had a chance to pose with their Fat Ass shirts on Boston Common following the race. As you can see, Angela really wanted to be the poster girl!	#14. Fat Ass Attitude: (from left) Angela, Debbie and Heather.
#11. James at the Seaton Trail race in Ontario - Photo by Rene Garneau published with kind permission from OUS)	#12. James at the Seaton Trail race in Ontario, April 2006 (Photo by Rene Garneau published with kind permission from OUS
# 9. Baldwin getting motivated for his first 50 Miler!	# 10. Baldwin at the finish of his first 50 Miler - American River 50
#7. Ean happily approaching the Gazebo aidstation at the Dirty Duo	#8. Ean eating his way through the Gazebo aidstation
	#6.
#5. Ean using his Club colors t-shirt as a towel	Doug using his club colours as a head rest after a tough run
#3. A joint submission by Doug and Ean in Doug's tub after their Saturday afternoon training run.	#4. Doug and Ean lounging in Doug's tub while the 2006 Club colors undergo a chlorine test
	# 2.
#1. Glenn cheering for Sweden at the men's Olympic hockey final in Turin, Italy	#2. Ean and Doug marinating in the hot tub

Traveling Colours Contest 2005

You, the judges, have spoken...we now have winners in the 2005 Traveling Colours Contest!

	# 2 - Eileen Bistrisky at Camp Nido de Condores at 17,650 ft (5,380 m) on Aconcagua # 1 - Eileen Bistrisky sampling wine during a break from her bike tour through Argentina's Mendoza region
# 3 This just in from Ellie Greenwood of Britain: "Well my fat Ass T-shirt has done quite a bit of traveling since I left Vancouver in April. I spent the summer working in Norway but these photos are from my recent 3 week trek to Nepal. It was a fab trip, where I was trekking in the Everest region. The trekking was not too hard as we were going so slowly due to the altitude, averaging 3900m but getting to a peak of 5647m! This photo is at that peak - called kala patthar which overlooks Everest base camp and the big peak in the background is Everest itself! maybe a future fat ass event doing the everest marathon which goes from base camp to a place called Namche bazaar, but given the record by a Sherpa is over 7 hours it might be a challenging one!	# 3 - Ellie Greenwood in Nepal #3 - Ellie Greenwood in Nepal
# 3- Ellie Greenwood in Nepal	# 3- Ellie Greenwood in Nepal
# 4 -Glenn Pace at the Western States 100 Miles Run in June	# 5 - Glenn Pace refueling during the Western States 100 Miles Run
# 6 - Glenn Pace and wife Manon at the Western States 100 Mile Run	# 7 - Glenn Pace after completing the Western States 100 Mile Run
# 8 - Bill Dagg on the podium for the Montrail BC Ultra Trailrunning Series 2005 male 40-49 age group. Sorry Scott and Rick, can't win if you don't wear the shirt!	# 9 - Gary Robbins planning the route for the Squamish Scrambler
# 10 - Gary Robbins in his backyard	# 11 - "Out-of-Action-Jackson" limping through the relay at STORMY
# 12 - Carlos Castillo's - Self Portrait	# 13 - Fred Wickens fighting the troll under the Aurora Bridge near Seattle
# 14 - Rick Arikado	# 14- Rick Arikado
# 14 Rick Arikado writes: "Here's my latest entry for the traveling Tee. We camped at Sun Lakes State Park, barely visible as line of trees to the right in south looking photo, red dot on map. Red line on map was my run one morning, Y-shaped out & back to a few different lakes. Gravel road also barely visible in photos. Overview photo (with mandatory Tee) taken from Dry Falls visitor center above canyon.	# 14 - Rick Arikado
# 15 - Carlos Castillo heading up rather dark trails during the Fluffy Bunny	# 16 - Carlos Castillo with a bloodied head after the Fluffy Bunny with Event Host Geoff Palmer (left)
# 17 - Action Jackson savouring a dark wheat beer in Germany	# 18 - Ean Jackson and Sibylle Tinsel sporting their Club shirts in Sibylle's home town, Weilburg, in Germany
# 19 - Sibylle Tinsel visiting her home town in Germany	# 20 - Ean Jackson likes his beer at the Apfellauf 10km, a race sponsored by a local company specializing in apple cider...
# 21 - Ean Jackson at the start of the Apfellauf in Germany	# 22 - Gary Robbins is elated at his first ever Knee Knacker finish (5:40:48h)
# 23- Gary Robbins at the old Lilloet Road aidstation during the Knee Knacker	# 24 - Jesper Olsen, the first human to complete a documented run around our beautiful globe, running near Kamloops, BC, Canada.
# 25 Gary Robbins suffering through a study at UBC	# 25 - Gary Robbins
# 25 - Gary Robbins - How fast can he go?	# 26 Gary Robbins exposing his buns at Cape Spear
# 27 - Gary at Cape Spear	# 27 - Gary Robbins a long way from home!
# 28 - Gary Robbins - A proud Fat Ass	# 29 - Gary Robbins at his first Half-Ironman