Entries are closed as of Feb­ru­ary 28, 2010 for this year’s Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run. A lot­tery will be held on Thurs­day, March 11 to deter­mine the 200 lucky run­ners for this year’s race. Results of the lot­tery will be posted at this site by March 12, 2010. If you want to be one of the first to know who got in, please join us for our lot­tery night at North Shore Ath­let­ics on March 11 – doors open at 6pm, lot­tery results at 7pm.

If you have entered elec­tron­i­cally, your name should appear on the online con­fir­ma­tion page at http://www.eventsonline.ca/events/kknstr/confirm.htm. A com­plete list of entrants, includ­ing those entered via snail mail will be posted in the next few days.

If you are inter­ested in entries for the Year 2011 edi­tion of the race, please return to this site after July 10, 2010.

Hello fellow trail runners!

WOW!!!  Olympic inspi­ra­tion all around.  If our amaz­ing Cana­dian (and World) ath­letes have inspired you to sign up for Knee Knacker this year, remem­ber LOTTERY DEADLINE IS TODAY, Feb­ru­ary 28^th.  For those of you who have already signed up (all 316 of you !!!), wel­come to Knee Knacker 2010.  Check out the con­fir­ma­tion and reg­is­tra­tion pages for all the info.

This year, we are pleased to announce that North Shore Ath­let­ics will again be host­ing our lot­tery night on March 11^th — doors open at 6pm, lot­tery results at 7pm.

As always, we appre­ci­ate your com­ments and sug­ges­tions… please feel free to post directly on our site, or send me a mail at rd@kneeknacker.com.

I look for­ward to seeing you on the trails,

Kelsy Trigg

KKNSTR 2010 Race Director

604–787-8097.

The count­down is on to Knee Knacker 2010 lot­tery dead­line!  Just 3 weeks to go now… with 166 entrants so far, we are ahead of last year’s pace of 152 at this time.  Check out http://www.kneeknacker.com/registration/ for instruc­tions on how to reg­is­ter, and http://www.eventsonline.ca/events/kknstr/confirm.htm for con­firmed entries (online only at this time)!

Holy cow! It’s only Jan­u­ary and some vol­un­teer areas are filled up already! Last year’s orga­nized and hyper-efficient Ban­quet team is back again. And Karen Chow, taking on the race’s newest vol­un­teer posi­tion of Pho­tog­ra­phy Cap­tain, has already snared a crew worthy of Sports Illustrated’s best (no pres­sure!). If you’re inter­ested in help­ing, check the  Vol­un­teer page to see what’s open and email our Vol­un­teer Coor­di­na­tor Bonnie (using our con­tact form).

Andrew Wong

Happy New Year, fellow Knee Knackerers!

It’s also the start of a new decade, and time for the Knee Knacker race to join the mad rush to Twit­ter that started last decade. You’ll notice the new “Follow Us” button in the right side­bar of every page, which will take you to http://twitter.com/kneeknacker. Ini­tially, we’ll use this to send out quick reminders for things like entry dead­line, lot­tery night, train­ing runs, and trail main­te­nance. Thanks to Sean Lavin for the idea.

Hello fellow trail run­ners!  Happy Hol­i­days to all.  Plan­ning is already under­way for the 22^nd Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run, and we’ll start more reg­u­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tions in the New Year.  It will be an excit­ing couple of months with the 2010 Winter Olympics in our back yard!

A big thank you to our 2009 Com­mit­tee mem­bers who are moving on this year and have been inte­gral to our com­mit­tee and the suc­cess of the race — Craig Moore, Jurgen Watts, and Ethe­lyn David.  Thank you !  A spe­cial men­tion also goes to Bill Dagg who has man­aged the web­site for a number of years. Con­tinue read­ing →

It is with sad­ness that we rec­og­nize the pass­ing of Susan Giuf­fre on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 15. Susan was a part of the Knee Knacker com­mu­nity, having com­pleted the run 6 times — most recently in 2008 . Our thoughts go to Susan’s hus­band Joseph, her family and friends.

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Gary Rob­bins pro­vides a look at the course via his GPS Overlay

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Read about the Knee Knacker expe­ri­ence of 3 Squamish ath­letes (and 1 former res­i­dent) in this arti­cle from the July 17 Squamish Chief

West Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia – Sat­ur­day, July 11^th marked the twenty-first annual run­ning of the Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run (the “Knee Knacker”). Con­tinue read­ing →