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.

I would also like to wel­come our new and return­ing com­mit­tee mem­bers this year — a won­der­ful, hilar­i­ous group of ded­i­cated volunteers:

* Vol­un­teers – Bonnie Walmsley

* Run­ners & Course – Glenn Pace

* Spon­sors & Course – Rod Hatfull

* Aid Sta­tions — Lucinda Iglesias

* Trail Work Party — Andrew Wong

* T-shirts, Posters & Cer­tifi­cates – Jeff Trigg

* Train­ing Runs – Glenn Pace and Rod Hatfull

* Ban­quet — Mary Hewitt

* Web­mas­ter & Finances — Enzo Federico

Please don’t hes­i­tate to con­tact any one of us through Contacts.

Addi­tion­ally, there is a crew of over 200 vol­un­teers that work to make the race a suc­cess each year.  With­out them, it just wouldn’t happen.  If you will be enter­ing the race this year, please do your best to recruit a vol­un­teer.  If you are a vol­un­teer, thank you.  For more info, or to sign up as a vol­un­teer, please check out Volunteering.

As with past years, entries will be accepted until Feb­ru­ary 28^th, and a lot­tery will be held at North Shore Ath­let­ics, Thurs­day, March 11^th.  To enter, go to How to Reg­is­ter and follow the links… you can view the cur­rent entrants list at: Con­firmed Entrants.

Key 2010 dates are:

ENTRY DEADLINE – Feb­ru­ary 28
LOTTERY NIGHT – March 11
TRAINING RUNS BEGIN – May 2
VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENT SUBMISSION DEADLINE – June 18
RACE BRIEFING – July 9
RACE DAY – July 10.

Have a great Hol­i­day & I look for­ward to hear­ing from you in the New Year!

Happy trails,
Kelsy Trigg
KKNSTR 2010 Race Direc­tor
604–787-8097.