VIMFF Trail Running Night

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Adam Camp­bell, the 2010 Knee Knacker men’s winner, is giving a pre­sen­ta­tion at the Van­cou­ver Inter­na­tional Moun­tain Film Fes­ti­val on Feb­ru­ary 16. For more infor­ma­tion on Adam Camp­bell: An Ultra State of Mind, visit the VIMFF web­site.

Welcome to 2012, Knee Knacker runners!

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Hello, fellow trail run­ners & wel­come to the 24th run­ning of the Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run!

Plan­ning is already under­way, and I’m excited to be kick­ing off another ‘Knee Knacker Season’. I want to start by thank­ing our com­mit­tee mem­bers (Enzo Fed­erico, Julie Flynn, Rod Hat­full, Patri­cia Jensen, Tim Jones, Bev McKenna, Dennis Marchant, Glenn Pace, Jeff Trigg and Andrew Wong), vol­un­teers, spon­sors and run­ners who make this such a great event to be a part of. THANK YOU!

As our trail run­ning com­mu­nity con­tin­ues to grow and we see the sport of ultra-running get­ting more and more ‘press’, we rec­og­nize the impact that a run like the Knee Knacker can have, and we have some excit­ing ideas about how to evolve the run. I’ll share more of these ideas over the coming months, but for now the key info lead­ing up to the lot­tery is below.

Entry Dead­line

Mark your cal­en­dars! This year’s entry dead­line is Feb­ru­ary 29, 2012. Entry info is avail­able on our reg­is­tra­tion page. You can also check out the entry con­fir­ma­tion page to verify your registration. We already have more entrants than ever before at this time of year. Thank you for your con­tin­ued sup­port! Con­tinue read­ing →

Please excuse the dust

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The Knee Knacker web­site is under­go­ing ren­o­va­tions. You may find some con­tent shift­ing about as we rearrange things. We appre­ci­ate your patience while we work to make the web­site easier to use and more infor­ma­tive for you.

Sponsor change

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To our trail run­ning community:

I want to take this oppor­tu­nity to sin­cerely thank our long time spon­sor, North Shore Ath­let­ics, for their sup­port over the years and to let our trail run­ning com­mu­nity know that the Knee Knacker and North Shore Ath­let­ics have decided to end this arrange­ment for the 2012 year.

As many of you know, North Shore Ath­let­ics has a strong trail run­ning series (Run the North Shore), many trail, road, and triathlon clin­ics, and a loyal cus­tomer following.

On behalf of the Knee Knacker com­mit­tee, I want to thank Keith and the team at NSA and wish them all the best in their future endeavours.

Sin­cerely,

Kelsy Trigg.

Knee Knacker 2012 Race Day: July 14

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Believe it or not, plan­ning for Knee Knacker 2012 starts very soon for the Race Com­mit­tee. We like to plan early so that all you run­ners and vol­un­teers can relax on race day (July 14). The 2012 race entry dead­line is Feb­ru­ary 29 and you can check out all the other impor­tant dates here.

Building Boardwalks on Balmy Black Mt. (Sept. 25)

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Mark Grist (BC Parks Ranger and a Knee Knacker runner) had offered me the choice of either Sat­ur­day or Sunday for the Black Mt. Trail Day. I picked Sunday. If you recall, it was dis­tinctly summer-like on Sat­ur­day with the sun shin­ing and the humid­ity hark­ing back to an August heat wave. Sunday was the polar oppo­site. The word hind­sight comes dis­tinctly to mind. Con­tinue read­ing →

Rivers Day Volunteer Plant Pull

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If build­ing board­walks in rainy, muddy con­di­tions isn’t your thing, how about weed­ing? This Sunday, Sep­tem­ber 25, you can help cel­e­brate Rivers Day at Mackay Creek in Hey­wood Park (North Van­cou­ver, Marine Drive and Hamil­ton Avenue) from 10am-2pm. Join the City of North Van­cou­ver, Ever­green and other com­mu­nity groups to remove inva­sive plants and plant local species in the park. Tools, plants and light refresh­ments will be pro­vided. No need to RSVP, just show up!