Race Rules

Course Rules:The Knee Knacker is a closed course, and all runners must stay on the marked route. No shortcuts, corner-cutting, or going off trail is allowed. Cutting switchbacks is strictly prohibited and will result in disqualification. If you go off course, you must return to the point where you left it and continue from there in order to receive an official finish time.

Aid Station Check-In Required: Runners must check in at every aid station along the course. As you approach, clearly state your bib number and ensure it is repeated back to you. This ensures race officials can accurately track all runners and that everyone is accounted for throughout the event.

Sanctions

The race com­mit­tee has two sanc­tions for infrac­tions of rules:

  • Dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion – runner will not appear as an offi­cial fin­isher in the race results.
  • Future entry denied – appli­ca­tion for runner for a future Knee Knacker Race will be returned.

Infractions

Infrac­tions result­ing in dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tions are:

  • Short­cut­ting of the course.
  • Miss­ing a checkpoint.
  • Get­ting in a moving vehicle.
  • Fail­ing to remain at a check­point for med­ical eval­u­a­tion on request of check­point personnel.
  • Run­ning with a dog, pole, or any other aids.
  • Fail­ing to with­draw on request of race officials.
  • Imped­ing another runner.
  • Running with a pacer.
  • Failing to check in on race morning.
  • Stashing supplies on the course.
  • Accepting aid outside 30 meters of designated crew-accessible aid stations.

Infrac­tions result­ing in denial of future entry are:

  • Run­ning as a bandit
  • Crew­ing for a bandit runner.
  • Running with a pacer.
  • Running as a pacer.
  • Having crews drive cars to areas des­ig­nated as off limits.
  • Lit­ter­ing.
  • Fail­ing to with­draw from the race for missed cutoff times.
  • Fail­ing to respect pri­vate property.
  • Mis­treat­ing aid sta­tion per­son­nel, other vol­un­teers or other runners.
  • Runners crew members mistreating aid station personnel, other volunteers or other runners.
  • For safety and lia­bil­ity rea­sons, any attempt at doing a “Knee Knacker double” during race week­end is not allowed. This means run­ning from Deep Cove to Horse­shoe Bay start­ing the night before race morn­ing and then expect­ing to run as an offi­cial par­tic­i­pant of the race. If this is attempted, you will be asked to sur­ren­der your race number. If you still decide to run during the race, you will be con­sid­ered a bandit (see first point in this section).

The race com­mit­tee reserves the right to impose sanc­tions for behav­iour not specif­i­cally men­tioned here, and can follow these guidelines and/or impose penalties as they deem appropriate.