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May 9, 2008 - Check out the latest F&F update here! After that, check out Chandra's latest update here!
April 9, 2008 - F&F Callaghan Photo Gallery Up!
Photo's from Callaghan 2008 are uploaded in the photo gallery, so check 'em out! While your doing that, read the article on SkiTrax.com about the event!
April 2, 2008 - "Females get Fast at Callaghan"
Check out the article posted in Squamish's local newspaper "The Chief" Click Here!
March 28, 2008 - Thank you EVERYONE for coming, we had a Blast! Please forward any photos you may have so we can put them on the website, in the meantime, check out these photos!
March 10, 2008 - Extended F&F Age group!
We would like to tell you something very exciting! At this very late stage, we have decided to extend the age group range from birth dates of 1989 to 1994 right down to 1996 & 1997, so if you have any friends who fall into that age range of 10 yrs or 11 yrs that would like to attend, then we would love to have them join us for the fun!
Be sure to let them know to register on Zone 4 before March 13th!
Have fun skiing at Nationals, and check out the latest newsletter!
March 4, 2008 - Newsletter Click Here!
March 4, 2008 - Watch the press conference from Chandra's World Cup win from Lahti, Finland!
Note from Chandra: My favorite part is when the affable (not!) Russian in 2nd place finishes her depressing delivery of her quotes with "But I'm unfortunately not in such a good shape as I would like to be just now."
February 24, 2008 - Newsletter - Click here!
February 7, 2008 - Register NOW for Fast and Female! Whistler, Callaghan Valley, March 24th 2008 12-6pm
Just a reminder... the Fast and Female event in the Callaghan Valley in March is ONLY open to girls born between 1988 and 1994. Older girls can request to be group leaders, younger girls will have to look forward to events over the summer and next winter! Thanks! Click Here to Register!
January 30, 2008 - Newsletter - click here.
January 29, 2008 - A great article on Chandra... click here.
January 25, 2008 - We've all been busy with WORLD CUP here in Canmore... sorry for the results delays... Results are online here. Congrats to Sara Renner for making a sweet come-back and Chandra for killing it in a classic sprint - 12th!!! Tomorrow... skate sprinting! Check out this picture of Fast and Female supporter Magi Scallion in her fashion clothes throwing down some serious enthusiasm for Chandra on the Classic Sprint race course she totally dominated!
January 20, 2008 - Update from the front.... official invitation to Fast and Female Whistler! Click here!
November 23, 2007 - Fast and Female needs you! We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced person to be the new director of Fast and Female operations. If you know somebody (it may be you) that fits the description in this job notice and might be interested in part-time work from their home anywhere in Canada, please encourage them to apply. Deadline for applications is December 15, 2007. Click here for the job description.
November 22, 2007 - Magi Scallion, age 26, from Wentworth, Nova Scotia has been an incredible resource in the past year of Fast and Female. Her top shelf organizational skills and many, many hours of work made the 2007 events in Canmore and Thunder Bay possible. ... read more...
November 15, 2007 - Sorry for the temporary disappearance of registration, it was kidnapped by a hippogriff. Thankfully in exchange for some dead ferrets it is now back as well new and improved. Best of all, we will be accepting MIGETS, JUVENILES, JUNIOR GIRLS and JUNIOR WOMEN. Girls born between 1988 and 1995 are now invited to register.
October 29, 2007 - Registration for Fast and Female Whistler will open on NOVEMBER 1, 2007. Register here...
October 28, 2007 - Congrats to our ladies at the World Cup - Chandra and Peri ripped it up this weekend with Chandra finishing 10th and Peri 41st in the individual sprint! Full results are available at www.fis-ski.com
October 22, 2007 - Ski-tastic spandex-lovin' life is going strong in Ramsau, Austria where Perianne Jones (Almonte, Ontario) and Chandra Crawford (Canmore, Alberta) are preparing for the upcoming sprint World Cup races.... (read more...)
October 18, 2007 - Fast and Female's Perianne Jones went out training with her local Nakkertok crew in Ottawa this week. It turns out not only is rollerskiing extremely cool, it's also a great way to scope out longboarders with fantastic bods. Oh, um... I mean... focus on technique... and stuff, yeah. Anyway, Peri suggests we add some longboarding to F+F Ottawa this May! Finally two extreme sports carried out on unforgiving pavement without the use of breaks can be united (in case you don't already have enough road rash!) -CC ... check out the photo here ...
October 18, 2007 - News from Chandra! Check out this super-cool ad! http://www.runworldrun.com.
October 1, 2007 - Check out photos from Thunder Bay in the photo album. More than 100 pictures posted!
September 21, 2007 - Fast and Female Thunder Bay is full! Thanks you all you charging ladies who were stoked enough to register right away!
September 20, 2007 - Fast and Female will host an event on MONDAY, MARCH 24 (the Monday after National Championships) in Whistler / Callaghan Valley, BC. Registration for this event will open on November 1, 2007. A link to the registration page will be provided here on November 1, 2007.
September 10, 2007 - Online registration for Thunder Bay event is now open... click here. Details can be found on the EVENTS menu under FF 2008.
September 4, 2007 - That's right, Fast and Female is coming to Thunder Bay September 29th, so clear your calendar. There will be everything from a sweat-to-your-brow strength circuit to a relaxing yoga session, with laughing, dancing and inspiration throughout the entire day all while in the presence of other fast, fun, females, what more could you want? Click here for more information.
September 2, 2007 - From Chandra: F+F fan and friend of all racers, Colleen Mortimer from Ottawa took
her homemade F+F go cup to the Kiluane Icefield in Yukon this July.
The sisterhood is everywhere!
Feel free to send us your photos of you rockin out in your hoodie or tuque, or buy some stickers right here on the site and spread the love...
August 31, 2007 - Back at it! Website updates coming Fast and Furious... watch for an end-of-September event in THUNDER BAY!
March 29, 2007 - Watch the TSN Bell Spirit of the Game episode... link is on the videos page!
March 22, 2007 - Fast and Female will be on TSN this Sunday at 11:00 am ET. Watch it!
March 18, 2007 - Ski with the Fast and Female instructors. Met at the X-C.com Salomon Event Tour Trailer at 10.00 am on Saturday, March 24 to ski with Dasha Gaiazova and some of the other national ski team members and Fast and Female leaders. Be back at the trailer for the 11.30 inspirational talk by Chandra and some hot chocolate.
March 17, 2007 - Chandra will be at Nationals! Come touch her medal, get her autograph, and listen to her Fast and Female message to encourage young cross-country skiers. This event will take place at 11.30 am on Saturdray, March 24, 2007 at the X-C.com Salomon Event Tour Trailer outside the Auberge de Fondeurs in Mont Sainte Anne.
March 12, 2007 - Check out the new photo gallery. All of the photos we have are now uploaded - there's more than 160 pictures there!
February 25, 2007 - Well Sapporo, Japan is totally beautiful with really awesome food... but those two things have sadly not been enough for our Fab Four World Champs Women's team to have the races of our lives. Tasha Betcherman, Sarah Daitch, Dasha Gaiazova and I have been hammering on the courses here and being hammered on by the other countries... (read more)
February 22, 2007 - Check out the new photo gallery in the EXTRAS section! There are lots and lots of pictures of the 2007 event!
February 15, 2007 - New message board and pictures coming soon! We are just in the process of updating that part of the site. In the meantime, you can check out the Fast and Female 2007 page to see who's racing where this winter - many of our participants will be going to Canada Winter Games, National Championships and some of our instructors are at World Championships (Junior/Senior and U23).
February 12, 2007 - How's that homework coming? Don't forget that you are all responsible to submit a short paragraph (see the last page of your registration/information information) by February 28, 2007 to magi@fastandfemale.com!! Thousands of pictures will be up on this site within the next couple days...
February 10, 2007 - Check out the videos section of the site (under "extras")... we've posted the video from CBC television!
February 8, 2007 - Your Fast and Female instructors possess a wealth of knowledge on sport and life. As I mentioned in our lunch talk at Fast and Female 2007 last weekend, some of you older teens may want to ask them about how they pull off skiing fast and doing school. Magi can get you in touch with any of your instructors that you may have questions for... we love to hear from you!
Here is an article Tara Whitten and I wrote in December of 2003 (click here). The ideas in there are solid and I used all of them to win the Olympics. The video of the Olympic Sprint can be watched at www.chandracrawford.ca and it really illustrates the tricks in this article, especially the freeskate.
Ciao Bellas, Chandra
February 7, 2007 - The TSN Special feature on Fast and Female will air on March 25, 2007 (the last day of National Championships!). Specific times will be posted here when they are available.
February 6, 2007 - Here's the latest from Chandra ... a little refresher on the dance grooves in case you are forgetting!
February 5, 2007 - Fast & Female will be on the CBC Calgary 6 o'clock news tonight.
February 4, 2007 - Checkout some pictures by Dan Roycroft and Devon Kershaw at www.skifaster.net. More pictures will be posted here over the next week - keep your eyes out!
February 4, 2007 - WOW! What an awesome day! Don't forget to email Magi your homework assignments! For LOST AND FOUND INFORMATION, click here.
CHANDRA'S DAY REPORT AND SOME PICTURES
February 3, 2007 - Fast and Female Eve - On Friday I talked to various media all day which resulted in me being really, really wound up about Fast and Female. By the time I got to meet 5 of our Provincial Ambassadors at a pizza party with their Canmore host families, I was pretty much busting. The pizza party was fun, and the girls who travelled all day to get here are really stellar. Can't wait til tomorrow!
February 3, 2007 - Fast and Female in The Toronto Star Newspaper today - check out the story - http://www.thestar.com/article/177458
February 2, 2007 - Sara Renner gave birth to a healthy, beautiful 7lb girl at 11:30am on February 1st, 2007 at the Banff Hospital. A huge CONGRATS to Sara and her husband, alpine ski legend Thomas Grandi, and best of luck with their newborn "Aria."
January 29, 2007 - Yo Yo Yo Fast Females... It was an exciting weekend here in Canmore with young buck Brittany Webster from Duntroon, Ontario, age 19, absolutely rocking house and winning both races at the World Championship distance trials. She will likely decline her spot on the 2007 World Champs team to prepare for the World Juniors, which have been re-scheduled for mid-March. The energetic and fit girl with a big smile is a relative new-comer to the sport of x-c skiing, but is putting her extensive running background to good use and we wish her all the best with the rest of her season.
F+F instructors Dasha Gaiazova and Tasha Betcherman also put in some
great performances, and we will eagerly await the official press release to find out whether they'll be selected to attend the World Champs in Sapporo, Japan. They both skied well and would be great representatives of our sport and country at the big event which starts Feb 22nd with a classic sprint.
In the Fast and Female good news department, national team members Perianne Jones and Amanda Ammar will be coming to the event this weekend. In the original plan for a normal winter with snow in Europe, they were going to be racing at the World Junior/U23's and miss this year's event. Although we're bummed to hear that their winter is being screwed up by the crazy heat in Europe this winter, we're extremely glad to have them joining us at Fast and Female!
Here's a picture of Peri modeling the Official Fast and Female Buff... and another way... how versatile!
January 27, 2007 - The Bow Corridor Regional Race information is now online at www.bcrr.ca, including start times and registration information. Online registration will only be accepted until noon on February 2. PLEASE pre-register for this event! If you are having problems with the online registration, call Susan Sayers at 1-877-226-7726 ext. 110 (toll free) and she'll walk you through it.
January 26, 2007 - Have you ever wondered how Fast and Female can afford to offer such a sweet experience to 80 girls from across Canada? It's mostly because of the AWESOME sponsors of the event (check out the sponsors tab on the menu bar). Private cash donations are also heavily relied upon - big and small. If you are interested in investing in Fast and Female, please click here for more information on how you can receive a tax receipt for your donation.
January 24, 2007 - Are you registered yet? We've heard that so far only 35 Fast and Female participants are registered in the Bow Corridor race on February 3! Register online at www.bcrr.ca. Race details will be put up on or around Monday, January 29 (distances for this classic, mass-start event). Registration on the day of the event is also possible... but please register early so the organizing committee can make sure they have enough bibs and volunteers!
January 22, 2007 - The news in this article in today's Globe and Mail is one of the biggest reasons we need Fast and Female. The ski day for girls is just the beginning of a nation-wide fitness movement. Let's get more phys ed time happening in the schools! -CC
January 22, 2007 - Only 13 more days until Fast and Female!! Check out this sweet countdown chart made by Annie Collins (click here), age 10 from BC! Way to rock out with enthusiasm, Annie, we can't wait to see you at Fast and Female 2007!
...Hello to all and thanks for visiting our site.
Final preparations continue with less than two weeks until Fast and Female 2007. The 12 Provincial Ambassadors have been hooked up with families to stay with here in Canmore for the weekend of the 3rd and 4th. Not to mention there's a fun mass start classic race on Saturday night happening in Canmore, so why not make a weekend of it? Most of your instructors will be out either racing or cheering at that Regional Race. Pre-registration is open at www.bcrr.ca. It's $10 if you pre-register and $15 if you wait 'till the day of.
Lots of fast females have been blazing around the trails here in Canmore as we are halfway through the World Championship trials.
Those who ski fast here will be selected to the Canadian team going to Worlds in Japan in February. I had a cold on the weekend and couldn't race, but I watched from the side as Fast and Female instructor Sara Daitch from Yellowknife ripped it up with her awesome double polling and won both days!
Meanwhile, my teammates Amanda Ammar and Periane Jones have been in Europe trying to get ready for the U23/World Junior Championships, but it's so hot in Europe this year that there is absolutely no snow and now the race has been postponed to sometime in March. That is brutal, but on the bright side, they may now be able to attend Fast and Female as superstar leaders, so stay tuned for more news on that.
I hope everyone is having fun in the snow wherever you are!
Ciao for now,
Chandra
January 16, 2007 – A message from Chandra Crawford!
…Hello F+F participants and supporters, We are less than 3 weeks from the 2007 Fast and Female Ski Day for Girls in Canmore, Alberta. I just got home from a long racing tour in Europe and I'm pumped to see tons of snow here, while Super Event Coordinator Magi has been organizing everything from sponsors to dance moves for the big day.
We apologize for the confusion around registration this year, and for the delay in releasing the participant list, and we assure you that things that process will be much smoother next time around. Thank-you for your patience, and congrats to everyone who got in. Please let us know if you can't make it so that we can give your spot to another fast female.
Thanks to everyone who applied for the subsidized travel to the event. 13 girls were chosen based on their answers to the question "What does being fast and female mean to you?" In selecting we looked for enthusiasm towards skiing and life because after the event these "fast and female ambassadors" are will be asked to bring their renewed energy back to their home provinces and make a small presentation at their club wind-ups about their trip. The commemorative DVD we're making should be helpful for that. Also, we're looking for local fast and female participants to volunteer as host families for these girls for the weekend of the 3rd and 4th. If you would like to have an awesome 14-16 year old stay with you, please contact cathyharris@shaw.ca
As for this website, we are still working out the kinks and hoping to get things like the comment board up and running, but it will probably take another couple weeks. In the meantime, now that I'm home there will be regular news updates right here for you.
Peace out,
Chandra
January 15, 2007 – Full registration list for Fast and Female now available.
The following girls have all been selected to participate in the Fast and Female event on February 4, 2007... Click here.
For more detailed information on the event for participants, please click here.
If you are interested in hosting one of our out-of-province girls, please contact Cathy Harris at cathyharris@shaw.ca.
January 13, 2007 – We have updated the event schedule! Check it out on the “FandF 2007 page”
JANUARY 12,2007- Congratulations - the following young ladies from across Canada have been selected to attend Fast and Female on a trip subsidized by Cross Country Canada's Women on Skis Committee!
Abby Lewis (NS)
Adriene Underhill (BC)
Annie Boisvert (QC)
Daphne Haggarty (ON)
Jessica Furlan (SK)
Krista Luckai (ON)
Moira Haggarty (ON)
Nicole Poirier (MB)
Olivia Nesbitt (QC)
Sarah Eppler (BC)
Sarah Hanthorn (NWT)
Sekwan Trottier (SK)
Ziggy Reimer (YK)
JANUARY 10, 2007 - Bow Corridor Regional Race (BCRR) registration information.
Please register for the BCRR race online at www.bcrr.ca. The race is on Saturday, February 3, 2007 in the evening at the Canmore Nordic Centre. It’s a Classic Mass Start race.
DECEMBER 14 , 2006 - Do you really want to come to Fast and Female 2007, but live far from Alberta? Twelve girls between the ages of 13 and 16 from across Canada will be selected to receive subsidized travel to the event. Click Here for more information.
November 16, 2006 - Fast and Female is now full for 2007. Please email magi@fastandfemale.com to receive event updates.