Hello, fellow trail run­ners & wel­come to the 24^th 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!

Entry Require­ment

The entry require­ment of 4 hours of com­mu­nity vol­un­teer work is in place for 2012. You must meet this require­ment between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012, and this can be done in the com­mu­nity of your choice. I get ques­tions about this every year; this can be vol­un­teer hours of your choice, not related to Knee Knacker and com­pletely geo­graph­i­cally inde­pen­dent. You don’t need anyone ‘sign’ for your hours, you just need to fill in the online Vol­un­teer Require­ments form after meet­ing this require­ment. We must receive this infor­ma­tion by June 30, 2012. We rec­og­nize that many people already con­tribute numer­ous hours for many dif­fer­ent causes and we thank you for this.

Run­ners Night and Lottery

We have his­tor­i­cally had a Run­ners Night get-together to announce the Lot­tery Results how­ever, that will be chang­ing this year. We have decided to move even fur­ther into this cen­tury and do a LIVE ONLINE LOTTERY! The lot­tery process itself is not chang­ing, rather we will post the results name by name as they are drawn so that every­one can share the real-time excite­ment and antic­i­pa­tion. Our plan is to post lot­tery winner names on our Knee Knacker Face­book group through­out the evening and then post the (com­plete) offi­cial list on the web­site the same night. So mark your cal­en­dars for Monday, March 5…more details to follow!

Train­ing Runs

Join your fellow Knee Knack­er­ers for the offi­cial Knee Knacker train­ing runs. These will begin the first week­end in May. There’s no charge and every­one (includ­ing those not in the lot­tery, and friends and family) is welcome.

Race Week­end

Race week­end will be an excit­ing time. Packet pickup will be avail­able on July 12 & 13 with a race brief­ing on July 13 (manda­tory for first time run­ners). Stay tuned for the loca­tion. July 14 will see the 24^th Knee Knacker start at 6am, and the ban­quet will com­plete the evening.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tions

From time to time, we will email you with race updates, how­ever more often we will post key info on this site and have infor­mal updates on our Face­book group. We have a Twit­ter feed that you can follow too.

We’re here to put on an extra­or­di­nary event and to help you meet your goals. If you have any com­ments or ques­tions, please con­tact any of the 2012 KKNSTR com­mit­tee mem­bers using our con­tacts form, or just give me a call.

I look for­ward to seeing you on the trails!

Kelsy Trigg,
KKNSTR Race Direc­tor,
(604) 787‑8097