Monthly Archives: July 2011

More Race Day Photos

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Here are our last set of race photos:

  • From var­i­ous pho­tog­ra­phers:  Some of the 250+ Knee Knacker Vol­un­teers making it happen on race day
  • From Karen Chow, slo-mo photos from Knee Knack­er­ing in the Snow.  When view­ing these photos, you should use the ‘Slideshow’ set­ting at its fastest pos­si­ble speed for the best expe­ri­ence as the images are orga­nized in motion-capture like sequences. Enjoy!
  • From Andrew Wong, photos from Jun 19 Train­ing Run at Nelson Canyon Park.   The Run­ners’ wave.

Thank you run­ners and vol­un­teers!  Until next year.

Vol­un­teer Knee Knacker Pho­tog­ra­phy Team

More Race Day Photos from “She saw”

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It is ille­gal to drive and talk on a cell phone in BC.  After what hap­pened during the Sey­mour Grind photo shoot, I am extend­ing this ban to include cam­eras too. 

  1. While wait­ing for the first runner to come though, London Drugs called to con­firm the photo order. While on the phone, Aaron Heidt came flying by. Throw­ing the phone down, I turned on the camera, pointed it at the fast moving runner and hoped the focus was pre-set. Nope.
  2. I phoned Dave, the Indian River Road pho­tog­ra­pher, to let him know that Aaron just flew past. While Dave described his route find­ing episode to Eagle Bluffs ear­lier that morn­ing, Adam Camp­bell came flying by.   Yeah, cell phone in left hand, camera in right hand. Time to put cell phone away.

Lesson: cell phone + camera + really fast run­ners = guar­an­teed fuzzy photos.     :(

Here is another set of Karen Chow’s Race Day photos from Mount Sey­mour.

Knee Knacker Thanks

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Well I had to smile at Andrew’s post last Sunday along the lines of ‘we’re all done until next year’… that shows Andrew’s level of orga­ni­za­tion and effi­ciency. I, on the other hand have been nurs­ing my com­bined Knee Knacker “high” and “hang­over” for a full week.

Thank you again to all of our won­der­ful vol­un­teers, spon­sors and run­ners who make the Knee Knacker what it is. I sin­cerely appre­ci­ate all of you who have reached out to send your thanks and offer help (for next year already!). We had the high­est number of fin­ish­ers this year at 198, and a full roster of 250 volunteers.

We will send out a survey to both run­ners and vol­un­teers in the next week and I look for­ward to your feed­back and sug­ges­tions. We’ve already got sev­eral inter­est­ing ideas about next year that we’ll look into over the upcom­ing months. (eg. Pos­si­bly live webcam for the finish line and a live/online lot­tery draw… no promises yet, but it could be fun.)

We do have a couple of lost and found items left – if anyone can iden­tify the camera they lost and what piece of their Garmin equip­ment is miss­ing, we do have these items ready for you to pick them up.

We’re proud this year to be donat­ing $4,000 (plus any pro­ceeds from the photos) to North Shore Search and Rescue, and very much appre­ci­ate their race day and year round support.

We will con­tinue post­ing pic­tures (thank you Karen!), sto­ries and info over the coming weeks, and then we will hiber­nate a bit while we enjoy the rest of the summer. Come the fall, we’ll gear up again and start to reach out with info prior to the end of the year.

Thank you for another out­stand­ing year & happy trails,

Kelsy


For immediate release

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The 23rd annual run­ning of the Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run took place on Sat­ur­day, July 9, 2011, with clear skies and mild weather a marked improve­ment from the show­ers and damp­ness in the days lead­ing up to the race. Course con­di­tions were gen­er­ally excel­lent, but the remain­ing snow­pack on the peaks of the North Shore moun­tains pro­vided an addi­tional chal­lenge along the 30-mile trail and demon­strated why the race is known as the “knarli­est” in Canada and one of the most dif­fi­cult ultra-marathons in North Amer­ica. Con­tinue read­ing →