Fall Season Starts August 25th |
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Registration for the Fall Season is now open!
Practices will start on August 25th, and we
will be training for Solem Adventure
Racing's Jailbreak AR on November 22 in
Huntsville, TX. If you know of anyone looking
to learn more
about adventure racing or our training
programs, please invite them to attend one of our
pre-season informational events:
HFAR Fall Season Informational
Thursday, August 7th at 7pm
REI - Galleria (7538 Westheimer Rd)
Adventure Racing 101
Wednesday, August 13th at 7pm
Trotter Family YMCA (1331 Augusta Dr)
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USA EAT FIT Nutritional Corner |
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Start Your Engines: The ABC's of Sports
Nutrition
Copyright: Nancy Clark, MS, RD
July 2008
Eating a performance-enhancing diet isn't
easy, and for many athletes and active
people, nutrition is their missing link. If
that's your case, here are a few ABC's to get
you started on the path to winning with good
nutrition.
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Too Cool Racing's No Sweat AR - HOT HOT HOT!!! |
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Art Cook & Robyn Cantor, Too Cool Racing
Calling all Too Coolers! Bring your game and
get ready to rumble, run,
paddle, splash, swim, trek, bike and climb your
way through 12 or 24 hours of
pure Texas adventure racing!
Too Cool brings
their traditionally grueling,
hot, highly competitive No Sweat AR back to
Parrie Haynes Ranch August
23-24th. As usual Too Cool provides plenty
of hospitality, including air
conditioned bunks, pre race dinner, post race
breakfast, showers,
leaderboard on Checkpoint Tracker (yes, No
Sweat 24 hr AR is part of that
National Series!), cool shwagg and awesome
sponsors!
Too Coolers once again can sponsor the
Capital Area Food Bank by bringing in 5 cans
of food and getting the infamous
'Skip Point'...a chance to
strategically skip one point on the course!
Race directors Art Cook and
Robyn Cantor bring over 20 years experience
to the adventure racing world.
Art Cook says "Hydrating for racing in this
kind of heat is critical. Also,
how the teams pace themselves often
determines who will be at the finish
line. A team that starts out too fast will
quickly find themselves
suffering under the strains of racing in such
conditions. Perseverance is
key!"
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Gear Spotlight: Chainlove |
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If you love a good deal and haven't yet
stumbled across Chainlove.com, you've got
to check this site out! Chainlove is the
bikeaholic's version of one-deal-at-a-time
sites like Woot.com. They focus on high-end bike
gear and feature selective deals for at least
50% off retail prices. As soon as one deal
sells out, they put
another one up, so check in frequently.
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Cheering Section |
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PrimalQuest (6/21-7/2)
Werewolves (Ash E., Jason M., Tom L., Paul
M.) - 24th
Terra Firma Sprint AR #4 - Houston
Urban (7/12/08)
Outcast (Chad G., Angela P.) - 2nd
Coed
Go Outside (Tracy J., Troy F.) -
6th Coed
Mmm Team (Becky M., Tim M.) - 7th
Coed
Random Chaos (Steve M., Vanessa M.) - 8th
Coed
Slice N Dice (Bobby K., Cynthia B.) - 9th
Coed
Houston Fit AR Strangers (Dan G., Lisa C.) -
13th Coed
Big Sky (Neil D., Carrie P.) - 15th
Coed
The Undertakers (Jenny G., David F.) -
24th Coed
HoustonFitAR.com (Chad H., Ben S.) - 3rd
Male
Last Virgins in Houston (Ash E., Tara K.) -
1st
Female and Overall
ER Phobic (Helena F., Lisa W.) - 2nd
Female
Some Like I Hot (Patricia B., Andrea S.) - 6th
Female
MANA (Natalia A., MiAlicia A.) - 10th
Female
SOS (Lan P., Eddy D.) - 7th Coed
Masters
Terra Firma Sprint AR #5 - Glen Rose
(7/26/08)
Out of Excuses (Alan H., Andrea S.) - 5th
Coed
Rock - Paper - Scissors (Scott S., Stacie G.)
- 9th
Coed
Don't pop the bubble! (Steve M., Scottie T.)
- 13th
Coed
Blue Steel (Vanessa R., Robert S.) - 15th
Coed
Mmm Team (Becky M., Tim M.) - 25th
Coed
HFAR-DTMV (Lindsey S., Keith H.) - 6th
Male
Team Deckux (Neil D., Chris D.) - 24th
Male
Some Like It Hot (Patricia B., Andrea S.) -
7th
Female
Double Shot (Lisa C., Ralinda W.) - 11th
Female
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Photo Gallery |
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(clockwise from top left):
Team Last Virgins in Houston (Ash E. and Tara
K.) make AR history by being the first female
team to ever take first overall in a Terra
Firma Sprint Series race. |
Patricia B. at the Summer Season Mock Race in
Jack Brooks.
| Team Blue Steel (Vanessa R. and Robert S.)
at Terra Firma's Glen Rose Sprint. | Team
Rock - Paper - Scissors (Scott S. and Stacie
G.) take 9th place coed at
Terra Firma's Glen Rose Sprint.
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Newsletter Contributions |
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If you've got something to say, we want to
hear it!
Email Megan at organizer@
houstonfitar.com with your articles,
photos, story
ideas or suggestions, and we will try to
include them
in our next issue.
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August Events |
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HFAR EVENTS
- 8/7 - HFAR Fall Season Informational,
7pm, REI Galleria
- 8/13 - Adventure Racing 101
Informational, 7pm, Trotter
Family YMCA (1331 Augusta Dr)
- 8/25 - HFAR Fall Season Starts
RACES AND EVENTS
- 8/2 - Aqua Terra Sprint
- 8/2 - REI Bike Maintenance 101
(Galleria)
- 8/16 - Bayou City Outdoors Farmers Market
Bike Tour
- 8/23 - Too Cool No Sweat 12/24 Hr
- 8/23 - Surf N Turf Sprint AR
- 8/29-31 - Camp Eagle Classic Mountain
Bike Festival
- 8/30 - Colorado River 100
- 8/30-31 - 24 Hours of Triathlon
HOLIDAYS
BIRTHDAYS
- 8/2 - Coach Carsten W.
- 8/5 - Olivia R.
- 8/5 - Stacie G.
- 8/14 - Patricia B.
- 8/16 - Andrea D.
- 8/16 - Susan G.
- 8/25 - Andrea S.
- 8/26 - Ben S.
- 8/27 - Natalia A.
More events....
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