Results and a write-up are now posted for the Club Fat Ass hosted 16th annual Vancouver New Year’s Day Fat Ass 50 Run and Freeze Your Fat Ass Swim. Despite winter conditions (and an overall lack of sleep) 78 people showed up and 37 ran the 50K. Following is an excerpt by Ian Jackson, full results can be viewed on the Fat Ass website .
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We live in interesting times. What an interesting day it was for our little Club resolution run. We were served-up a smorgasbord of winter conditions: snow, sleet, rain, wind, ice, slush, mud, puddles, all with a little blowdown thrown in for good measure. Given that the snow was deeper than at any time during the run’s history, let’s call the 2009 run "The Year of the Big Snow."

Snowed-in driveways, icy roads and hangovers aside, a near record number of fat asses made it to the start. We had representatives from as far away as Toronto, Prince George and Vernon including an enthusiastic mob of 18 from snowed-in suburban Coquitlam. Despite the frozen pens and wet sign-in sheets, we managed to start skating down the trails of Stanley Park promptly at 9. (Hey Vernon, where were ‘ya?)

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