Welcome to 2012, Knee Knacker runners!

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

We have a LOTTERY!

Well, we are rapidly count­ing down the hours until the entry dead­line for Knee Knacker 2011… Monday, Feb­ru­ary 28th at 11:59pm. We cur­rently have 296 entrants, and his­tor­i­cally, the last 24 hours brings a bit of a flurry of activ­ity. Last year we had a record number of 375 entrants, so we’ll be watch­ing closely to see how close to this we come. You can also keep tabs of who has entered at our con­fir­ma­tion page, and I hope that you’ll join us to be the first to find out the lot­tery results at our “Runner’s Night and Lot­tery” on Thurs­day, March 3, 2011 (6:00pm — 8:30pm). North Shore Ath­let­ics — 101‑1200 Lons­dale Ave, North Van­cou­ver - will be host­ing, and run­ners, friends, family and vol­un­teers are wel­come. We’ll reveal the lot­tery results around 7:00pm and kick off the ‘Knee Knacker Season’.

I look for­ward to seeing you on Thurs­day or on the trails,

Kelsy Trigg
KKNSTR 2011 Race Director