Black Mt. Trail Day — Additional info

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In case you’re won­der­ing, we won’t be car­ry­ing any mate­ri­als to the work­site. BC Parks has already air­lifted all the mate­ri­als to the work­site. We only have to hike (or if you prefer, run!) to Black Mt. The start time will be 9am and we should be done by 1pm-2pm. No spe­cial skills are needed for this work; we’re just sup­ply­ing lots of Knee Knacker muscle power! Having said that, you don’t have to be a weight lift­ing god/goddess–many hands makes it easy to lift large cedar planks, which is what the board­walk decks will be made of.

Volunteers Needed for Black Mt. Trail Day — Sunday, September 25

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We need eight or nine vol­un­teers from the Knee Knacker com­mu­nity to help install board­walks through the mud pit sec­tion on Black Moun­tain in Cypress Provin­cial Park. We’ll be work­ing under the guid­ance of BC Parks on this project, which should take four to five hours to finish.

The board­walks are being installed to pro­tect the frag­ile bog envi­ron­ment on Black Mt. As side ben­e­fits, your run time will improve, you’ll ful­fill your 2012 race entry vol­un­teer require­ment, and you won’t have to worry about dis­ap­pear­ing into an inno­cent look­ing stretch of mud!

Please note there will be some heavy lift­ing required in this project.

To sign up, please con­tact Andrew (Trail Day Coor­di­na­tor) through the Con­tact Form by Sep­tem­ber 23.

Black Mt. Trail Day Scheduled for September 25

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Mark your cal­en­dars — the Black Mt. Trail Day is sched­uled for Sunday, Sep­tem­ber 25. We’ll need a small group of vol­un­teers to help BC Parks install board­walks over­top some of the marshy/muddy bits of the Baden Powell trail. More details will be announced in the next day or two.

Volunteer trail work days in August and September

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Now that the 2012 race reg­is­tra­tion has opened up, here’s your chance to ful­fill your vol­un­teer hours months in advance. The snow on Black Mt. is (mostly) gone now, so the Black Mt. Trail Day is planned for the end of August. The exact date is still TBA but we’ll post it as soon as we know. If you’re inter­ested in the Black Mt. Trail Day, con­tact Andrew (Trail Day Coor­di­na­tor) through the Con­tact Form.  Also, BC Parks has vol­un­teer trail main­te­nance days planned for the Stawa­mus Chief trail in Squamish at the end of Sep­tem­ber. If you’re inter­ested in the BC Parks Stawa­mus Chief trail days, email Katy.Chambers@gov.bc.ca to add your name to their vol­un­teer list.

Knee Knacker Donates $4,400 to North Shore Search and Rescue

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We’re excited to announce that this year’s Knee Knacker dona­tion to North Shore Search and Rescue is $4,400. This is the largest amount we’ve ever raised and it includes the pur­chase of almost $400 in pho­tographs from our Smug­Mug site. The vol­un­teers at the North Shore Search and Rescue team do an incred­i­ble job help­ing people in dis­tress so we’d like to thank you, the Knee Knacker com­mu­nity, for your gen­eros­ity and par­tic­i­pa­tion in the race which made the dona­tion possible.

We’re not sleeping, just resting our eyelids.

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It’s been a month since race day and while things are fairly quiet in the Knee Knacker office, the trail run­ning com­mu­nity con­tin­ues to hum along. So through­out the rest of this year, we’ll post inter­est­ing trail-running news that we find for you. And if you have some­thing of inter­est to share, you can email it to us or post it on our Face­book com­mu­nity page.

Runners Needed for UBC Ultra Running Study, August 20 + 21

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The Car­dio­vas­cu­lar Phys­i­ol­ogy and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Lab at UBC (http://educ.ubc.ca/faculty/warburtoncardio/) needs run­ners to par­tic­i­pate in a 75km trail run on August 20 and 21. This will take place at the Pacific Spirit Park and UBC Endow­ment Lands. There is no entry fee for this race but you must be capa­ble of run­ning the entire race.

The race involves five laps on a pre-set 15km course. Run­ners will be tested at the end of lap 3 for cog­ni­tive and car­dio­vas­cu­lar mea­sures, as well as after the race at three sep­a­rate inter­vals (race finish, 60 min­utes post race, 90 min­utes post race). On course water, sports drinks, gra­nola bars and energy gels will be supplied.

Prior to the race, run­ners will be invited to the lab for a free base­line health and fit­ness assess­ment, includ­ing a VO2max test.

This research may have appli­ca­tions for the health and train­ing prac­tices of ultra-marathon run­ners, and is the first study of its kind. If you are inter­ested but cannot make the August 20/21 week­end, the lab would still like to hear from you.

For more details, con­tact the lab at cprlab@gmail.com or call 604.822.6881.