Member Monthly Media Contest

Each month we will send an email to OA members asking them to respond to a simple question or theme.  They can write a short story of 200-500 words, create an image essay, or post a video blog of 5 minutes of less.  

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These days I've been working hard to get ready for the upcoming indoor season in Belgium. I haven't made up my mind yet whether I'll run only 60m events, or whether I'll do the 200m event too. At this moment, the most important day of the indoor season will be January 4th, when the Provincial Championships take place in Ghent. I'll do a couple more meetings, which take place in Ghent, as we only have one indoor hall.

Finished my first 24hr Adventure Race this weekend!!
Highly,highly recommend these events.They test you in a whole new way...

What: First meeting of the D.C. Chapter Of Organic Athlete. All fitness levels welcome! Feel free to distribute the attached flyer.

Where: http://www.stickyfingersbakery.com/

When: Sunday October 05 3pm

Group Website:
http://www.organicathlete.org/washington-dc

D.C. Organic Athlete Google Group ( E-Mail List )
http://groups.google.com/group/oawashdc

For more info, contact us at washingtondc@organicathlete.org

Pollution can make you fat, study claims
Children exposed to pesticide in womb twice as likely to be overweight, refuting idea of sole personal responsibility.

As seen in The Independant

by Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 7 September 2008

Pollution can make children fat, startling new research shows. A groundbreaking Spanish study indicates that exposure to a range of common chemicals before birth sets up a baby to grow up stout, thus helping to drive the worldwide obesity epidemic.

I want to personally thank Alex Hershaft for inviting me and OA Pro-Activists Jeremy Moore and Robert Cheeke. The AR Conference is an opportunity for AR activities to come together annually and share success stories, challenges and strategies. Over the years Alex has increasingly added nutrion/health and environmental-related information and the addition of high level athletes only boosts this strategy. I personally look forward to attending again in the future as I learned an incredible amount just that weekend.

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All I can say is - I want Jeremy's legs!!! :)
While Robert was flexing his arms, Jeremy's legs took the Gold Medal.
I told Robert I wouldn't flex b/c I didn't want to show him up.

Poor turnout for the Vegan Athlete lunch - it appears because, while it was on the schedule, the room was not on the schedule and the room they had us go into was on the other side of the meeting area - very inconvenient for people that wanted to eat and talk.

I've been in the United States for just over a month now, and I consider myself a lucky bastard as I am staying another month! Honestly, a couple of years ago, I really had doubts about the US of A. But it was all prejudice. One of my best decisions ever, besides joining OA and going vegan, was coming to the US and leaving my Belgian life for about 10 weeks. What I've seen so far goes way beyond the expectations I had when I decided to come over and be an intern at the OrganicAthlete Training Center:

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As seen in the Guardian Observer

by Juliette Jowit
Sunday, September 7, 2008

People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's leading authority on global warming has told The Observer

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.

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Bradley, Charity, Jurgen and Jane slowly chug out of Sebastopol in the Green Van (OA 2), top speed 59 mph on the largest downhill grade, the flats we cruised at a mellow 43 mph bound for Portland. Departing the OATC around 1pm on Monday, after four fig picking stops, a candlelit dinner at the Red Bluff rest area, we pull into a campground around midnight just below the Mighty Shasta herself. We prowl around with our headlamps, looking for a spot to lay our pads and bags, there was discussion of setting up a tent, we all opted to sleep under the stars... AMAZING!