Twas the night before Knee Knacker…

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With all of 15 hours to go before KKNSTR 2011 start, I wanted to take a minute to share my sin­cere thanks to all of the vol­un­teers who work to make this run pos­si­ble, to our great com­mu­nity spon­sors, and to all of our run­ners who take on this adven­ture. It is pretty spec­tac­u­lar to be involved in a run where not only are there more vol­un­teers than run­ners, not only do people come back to vol­un­teer year after year, but we actu­ally have to turn vol­un­teers away! Thank you for this. Con­tinue read­ing →

Cleaning up muddy runners

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For your post-race clean up, you can use the out­door show­ers located at Panorama Park. There are also shower facil­i­ties at Park­gate Com­mu­nity Centre (there’s a small fee, payable at the front desk). If you opt to clean up at Park­gate, please clean off mud before you use their show­ers as any mud will clog their drain systems.

All volunteer positions are filled

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All 2011 vol­un­teer posi­tions have been filled. Many thanks to all our vol­un­teers! Mean­while, the count­down to Sat­ur­day clicks on relent­lessly, and your com­mit­tee is work­ing furi­ously on last minute preparations.

Knee Knacker 2011 Press Release

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For Imme­di­ate Release

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 →

July 3 Training Run Photos — He saw, She saw

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July 3, 2011 Train­ing run photos by Ken Blowey are here and Karen Chow’s are here.

Thank you for run­ning across the Lynn Canyon Sus­pen­sion Bridge. (The sus­pen­sion bridge is not part of the race course.) And since the run­ners arrived at Deep Cove before the pho­tog­ra­phers, it’s Run­ners 1, Pho­tog­ra­phers 0.   :(

Shovelling snow in July!

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The snow in higher sec­tions of the course has lin­gered longer than usual. Several creek cross­ings along the Holly­burn sec­tion of the course has had many of us concerned.

On Sat­ur­day morn­ing, a Glenn, Michel, & Andrew headed out to tackle the trail with shov­els & ice axes. They man­aged to tackle the 8′ walls of snow, uncover many of the post-hole traps, & made the creek cross­ing far more man­age­able. (Photos posted here.)

In the last week, much of the snow has receded & we expect that much more will dis­ap­pear before race day.

Updates for Historical Stats & Current Year Entrants

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With less than a week to go, all the his­tor­i­cal stats pages have been updated. The links below will lead you to pages with charts, sum­maries and detailed results for the Knee Knacker from it’s incep­tion in 1989, and now also includ­ing the 2010 race.

All-Time Fin­ish­ers List

All-Time Female Fin­ish­ers List

All-Time PR and # of Finishes

Age Group Win­ners (all years)

Fin­ish­ing times over the years (bar chart)

Starters/Finishers (by year)

Median Times (by year)

Who are the ten time finishers

 

For the cur­rent year, 2011, you will also find up-to-date (as of July 3, 2011) lists and charts on these pages:

List of Entrants (alphabetically)

List of Entrants (by sex/division)

List of Entrants (by # KK finishes)

Entrants Pro­file by # of  pre­vi­ous fin­ishes (bar charts back to Y2K)

Entrants Pro­file by Age Group (pie chart)