Hello fellow trail run­ners! It’s lot­tery time!

Hello fellow trail run­ners! Wel­come to the 21^st Annual Knee Knack­er­ing North Shore Trail Run!

It’s hard to believe it’s Feb­ru­ary, lot­tery dead­line is around the corner, lot­tery night is coming up, and we have 152 people entered! I’m already excited about another great “Knee Knacker Season”.

This year we have some changes to our 2009 Race Com­mit­tee, and I want to thank Sharon Hope, Greg White and Bonnie Wong who have all been inte­gral to our com­mit­tee and the suc­cess of the race. I will always remem­ber Sharon’s garage the week before race day as truly “Grand Cen­tral Sta­tion”… sup­plies from all over con­verged, people from all over came by, and like clock­work, Sharon got every­one every­thing they needed. Thank you Sharon. Greg’s tal­ents shone par­tic­u­larly on race day as he did the runner’s cutoff times at the aid sta­tions. I’ve never seen anyone who could find that bal­ance of push­ing some­one for­ward to make the next cutoff, be prag­matic about their chances, and have people send thank you notes for having been kicked off the course! Thank you Greg. Bonnie’s vol­un­teer co-ordination was top notch, and I think her legacy will be in talk­ing the com­mit­tee into not only new ban­ners, but a plat­form for the ban­quet. I recall at one point when we were dis­cussing the costs and trade­offs and not being able to afford it Andrew actu­ally offered up his bal­loons for the ban­quet… how’s that for influ­enc­ing skills! Thank you Bonnie.

I would also like to wel­come our two new com­mit­tee mem­bers – Lucinda Igle­sias and Jurgen Watts. Lucinda will take over as Aid Sta­tion co-ordinator, and Jurgen will lead the charge with projects such as the web­site redesign con­test (check out the sec­tion below). Wel­come Lucinda & Jurgen!

The rest of our crazy, won­der­ful team is:

Ban­quet – Andrew Wong
Vol­un­teers – Ethe­lyn David
Spon­sors – Craig Moore
Run­ners – Glenn Pace
Course – Rod Hat­full
T-shirts, Posters & Cer­tifi­cates – Jeff Trigg
Train­ing Runs – Craig Moore & Glenn Pace, and Rod Hatfull

Spe­cial men­tion also goes to Bill Dagg, our web­mas­ter, and Enzo Fed­erico, co-founder, and keeper of the Finances

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.

Entry Dead­line

Mark your cal­en­dars! This year the entry dead­line is Feb­ru­ary 28, 2009 – please make a note of the date if you want to enter the lot­tery. Entry info is avail­able at: How to Reg­is­ter. You can also check out the entry con­fir­ma­tion page at Lot­tery Entrants. We already have 152 entrants which is just ahead of this time last year… when we had a record 333 entrants!

Entry Require­ment

Please note the entry require­ment of 4 hours of com­mu­nity vol­un­teer work is in place again for 2009. The period to meet this require­ment is from July 1, 2008 to June 15, 2009, and this can be per­formed 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, com­pletely geo­graph­i­cally inde­pen­dent. You don’t need to have anyone ’sign’ for your hours, you just need to fill in the online Vol­un­teer Require­ments Formy­our­self to meet this require­ment. The Knee Knacker Com­mit­tee must receive all nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion byJune 19, 2009, or you will not be allowed to par­tic­i­pate in the run. We rec­og­nize that many people already con­tribute numer­ous hours for many dif­fer­ent causes and we thank you for this.

Run­ners Night and Lottery

Be the first to find out the lot­tery results! This year Run­ners Night and Lot­tery is Thurs­day, March 5^th, 2009 – we’re for­tu­nate again to have North Shore Ath­let­ics as Knee Knacker Spon­sor & host of the event. Every­one is wel­come – par­tic­i­pants, friends, family & vol­un­teers. Lots of prizes & pizza too.

Train­ing Runs

Join your fellow KneeK­nack­er­ers for the offi­cial Knee Knacker train­ing runs. These will begin the first week­end in May – there’s no charge and every­one is welcome.

Race Week­end

Race Week­end will be an excit­ing time. Packet pickup will be avail­able on July 9^th & 10^th at North Shore Ath­let­ics with a race brief­ing on July 10^th (manda­tory for first time run­ners). July 11^th will see the 21^st Annual Knee Knacker start at 6am, and the Ban­quet will com­plete the evening. We’ll keep you posted on details as we get closer to the day… 5 months, 2 days & a hand­ful of hours… the count­down is on… !

Web­site Re-Design Contest

Call­ing all Tal­ented Web Design­ers! We need your help! It’s time to bring our Knee Knacker web-presence into this cen­tury. We are hold­ing a con­test for sub­mis­sions and will accept pro­to­type designs until Feb­ru­ary 25, 2009. We’ll announce the suc­cess­ful design at Lot­tery Night on March 5^th. What’s in it for you? Fame and glory, of course! While this is a vol­un­teer request, we would be happy to give credit / fea­ture you or your com­pany on our newly designed site, and we’ll be award­ing a pair of Mon­trail shoes and a lim­ited edi­tion Knee Knacker Jacket to the winner. If you’re inter­ested, please see the fol­low­ing doc­u­ment for the specifics. THANKS!

Knee Knacker Web­site Makeover Con­test (pdf)

Com­mu­ni­ca­tions

From time to time, we will send e-mail with Knee Knacker spe­cific updates such as this one. We respect your pri­vacy and will not dis­trib­ute your e-mail address. If you would prefer not to receive these updates, please be in touch and we will remove your address from our list.

Con­tacts

We are here to put on an extra­or­di­nary event and help you meet your goals. If you have any com­ments or ques­tions, please don’t hes­i­tate to con­tact any of the KKNSTR 2009 com­mit­tee mem­bers using our Con­tacts Form.

I look for­ward to seeing you on the trails,

Kelsy Trigg
KKNSTR 2009 Race Direc­tor
604–787-8097