Yearly Archive: 2010

Training Run – May 23, 2010

Imagine turning on the cold water & standing in your shower for the better part of 3 hours. Add some ice cubes on the shower floor & set your bathroom fan on it’s “turbo” setting. Short of inviting about 45 buddies to join you for this chill-fest,  you’ll start to...

Trail Work Party – Sat. June 5

Hi, everyone! This year’s Knee Knacker Trail Work Party on Saturday, June 5 will take place on the Baden Powell trail near Hyannis Drive in the Blueridge area (see map below). We’ll be working under the guidance of Graham Knell, North Vancouver District Trail and Habitat Coordinator. You don’t need...

Training Run – May 2, 2010

It’s hard to believe that we are already underway for another season of Knee Knacker training runs, but here we are! 30 people met in the Grouse Mountain parking lot & for the first time since our 2008 training season, we had rain!! It didn’t seem to slow anyone down,...

Get ready to train!

It’s 2010. The race is on July 10. And there are exactly ten training runs before the big day. So are you and your shoes ready? Nah, didn’t think so. All the more reason to join this year’s first training run on Sunday, May 2nd. Rod, Glenn, and Gilles will...

Any Volunteers Out There?

Well it’s been a few weeks since the excitement of the lottery announcement and we’re settling into our post-Olympic routines again.  Congrats to all who were successfull with the lottery this year!  For the other hundred or so entrants who haven’t secured a spot in this year’s race, we would like you...

2010 Lottery Results Are In

A record number of 375 lottery registrants were received by the February 28th, 2010 deadline. 262 of these were selected to participate as runners in the 2010 race. This allows us to field approximately 200 starters on race day, after accounting for a typical attrition rate of approximately 24% over...