Are you new to the Baden Powell trail? Do you often follow weav­ing squir­rels instead of watch­ing for orange trail mark­ers? Well, to help keep you on the straight and narrow, we’ve added a link to a Cypress Provin­cial Park map and a map sec­tion of Mt. Sey­mour Provin­cial Park. The maps give you a more detailed view of the race route as it goes through the two parks. See them here.

Believe it or not, plan­ning for Knee Knacker 2012 starts very soon for the Race Com­mit­tee. We like to plan early so that all you run­ners and vol­un­teers can relax on race day (July 14). The 2012 race entry dead­line is Feb­ru­ary 29 and you can check out all the other impor­tant dates here.

Wow! Well, the final count­down has started, and there’s the usual flurry of activ­ity the week before the Knee Knacker!

Wel­come every­one… run­ners, vol­un­teers, family & friends. Run­ners, con­grat­u­la­tions on making it to the start line. I hope you have trained well, tapered well and are ready for adven­ture on Sat­ur­day, July 9^th. Vol­un­teers, my sin­cere thanks for all that you have already done, and for every­thing you’ve signed up to do!

Below is some impor­tant info to help you through the next week, Con­tinue read­ing →

Thanks to all run­ners and vol­un­teers who took the time to respond to our post-race sur­veys. We also really appre­ci­ate all the con­struc­tive feed­back in your com­ments, and will use that to make a great event even better in 2011!

You can browse through the results here:

• 2010 Runner Survey Results
• 2010 Vol­un­teer Survey Results

We have now opened reg­is­tra­tion for the 23^rd annual edi­tion of the Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run, set for Sat­ur­day July 9, 2011. Com­plete details can be found here.

Hello Run­ners,

We have a nice little col­lec­tion of drop bags that weren’t picked up on Sat.  If you forgot to pick up your drop bag, you have until next Tues­day, July 20^th to be in touch with us.  We’ll dis­card or donate any left­over items after this.  Please con­tact us through the con­tact form on the web.  Thanks.

Hello Knee Knacker Run­ners & Volunteers,

Knee Knacker Run­ners, THANK YOU for the response to our survey this year — in less than 3 days, we’ve heard from 117 of you already and we very much appre­ci­ate your feed­back!  We’ll keep the survey open for another week and then we’ll share the results with you.

We all know is how impor­tant our vol­un­teers are and that is coming through loud and clear in the survey.  So… we’ve decided to do an addi­tional survey for our vol­un­teers to see how we can keep improv­ing the Knee Knacker for every­one involved.  If you are a vol­un­teer and we have your email address, expect an email this week.  If you are an aid sta­tion cap­tain and we don’t have all of your team’s con­tact info, please send it to me using the con­tact feed­back form here.

We do have some extra vol­un­teer shirts left over, so if you vol­un­teered and didn’t get a shirt, let us know and we’ll be happy to put one aside for you.

We’ve got about a half-dozen folks tweet­ing about us today during the race. Many thanks to those who are keep­ing us up to date.

UPDATE July 11 — Now that the race is com­plete, we are replac­ing the live feed with this link to Twitter.