West Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia – The annual Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run (the “Knee Knacker”) will be run­ning for the 25^th time, and it is expected that over 350 eager entrants will be wait­ing for the results of the lot­tery draw­ing start­ing at 8:00pm on March 5 to see who will be toeing the start line this year. This mile­stone Knee Knacker event takes place on Sat­ur­day, July 13, 2013 start­ing at Horse­shoe Bay and ending at Panorama Park in Deep Cove. Con­tinue read­ing →

This year’s race was reported on Global BC TV news. Go here to view the news­cast. The race is shown at the 00:20 mark (pre­view) and the main piece at 32:08.

The 24^th run­ning of the Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run (“the Knee Knacker”) took place on Sat­ur­day, July 14, 2012, with clear skies and warm weather shin­ing down on the course at the 6:00am start. Course con­di­tions were warm and humid through­out the race, pro­vid­ing an addi­tional chal­lenge along the 30-mile trail run through the North Shore moun­tains. With over 16,000 ft ele­va­tion change, the Knee Knacker is known as the “knarli­est” in Canada and one of the most dif­fi­cult ultra-marathons of this dis­tance in North America.

The men’s field was dom­i­nated by first-time run­ners this year, with the winner, Nathan Bar­rett of Van­cou­ver, BC, push­ing to a five-minute lead at the first quar­ter and widen­ing it to 22 min­utes by the end at Panorama Park. Con­tinue read­ing →

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West Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia – The Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run is at hand once again, bring­ing together a field of some of the world’s top ultra-marathoners to run 30 miles on the trails of West and North Van­cou­ver. The twenty-fourth edi­tion of the Knee Knacker takes place on Sat­ur­day, July 14, 2012, start­ing at Horse­shoe Bay and ending at Panorama Park in Deep Cove.

This year’s race will have a new men’s winner, as the top three 2011 fin­ish­ers are not return­ing to chal­lenge for the title. Some of the poten­tial lead­ers are seven-time winner and former course record holder Peter Find­lay of Kam­loops, Phil Vil­leneuve of Can­more, Alberta, and a pair of pre­vi­ous fourth-place fin­ish­ers, Ryan Ervin (2011) of North Van­cou­ver and Gary Rob­bins (2010) of North Van­cou­ver. In the women’s field, the 2011 second-place fin­isher, Lisa Polizzi of Van­cou­ver, is back, and she’ll be facing strong com­pe­ti­tion from Brooke Spence of North Van­cou­ver and the 2009 West­ern States 100 winner, Anita Ortiz of Eagle, Col­orado. In total, over 350 entrants applied to the March lot­tery to attain one of the cov­eted 200 spots at the start­ing line. Con­tinue read­ing →

The 23^rd 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 →

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West Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia – The Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run is at hand once again, bring­ing together a field of some of the world’s top ultra-marathoners to run 30 miles on the trails of West and North Van­cou­ver. The twenty-third edi­tion of the Knee Knacker takes place on Sat­ur­day, July 9, 2011, start­ing at Horse­shoe Bay and ending at Panorama Park in Deep Cove. Con­tinue read­ing →

Green­wood smashes Knee Knacker Women’s Course Record and new­comer Camp­bell takes Men’s title

West Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia – Sat­ur­day, July 10^th marked the twenty-second annual run­ning of the Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run (a.k.a. “Knee Knacker”). Good weather greeted the run­ners and vol­un­teers on this occa­sion with clear skies in the morn­ing and warm tem­per­a­tures through­out the day. Course con­di­tions were excel­lent, with min­i­mal snow in the high coun­try and lim­ited patches of mud, how­ever the 26C heat and high humid­ity were likely a factor. Con­tinue read­ing →

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West Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia — The second Sat­ur­day of July is coming up, and that can only mean one thing for a grow­ing number of enthu­si­as­tic long-distance trail run­ners — time for the Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run (the “Knee Knacker”). The race tra­verses the trails of West and North Van­cou­ver, and the twenty-second edi­tion takes place on Sat­ur­day, July 10, 2010. Con­tinue read­ing →