Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Full Serve: By Hyannis Drive you’ve covered almost 42km and you need a bath. You think they’re offering the sponges because you’re hot and need a little pick me up but that’s not it at all. You’re glowing! So for no extra charge, the Vikings sponge you off, put a...
With hops like these you’d think Benji won the Knee Knacker wouldn’t you? In a literal sense he didn’t but these photos show that Benji embodies the true spirit of Knee Knacker and is deeply a winner. This kind of joy can only come from running in the unbeatable terrain of...
“But first I had to negotiate through something quite different, although very difficult. The Hyannis Drive Aid Station. An aid station, you say? Yes, but this is no ordinary aid station. Running through it is easy. It’s the mental torture that challenges even the most steely ultra runner. Situated at...
“Despite a wet start, the tree coverage at the Hyannis aid station acted like a natural umbrella to keep most of the day’s heaviest rainfall to a light misting over the station, its volunteers, and the incoming runners. Racers coming up the stairs to Hyannis looked pleased to reach the...
Okay, if you really must dot the ‘i’ and cross that ‘t’, our crew of twenty-three Knee Knacker trail elves were actually landscaping. And building. And digging. And moving stuff. Of course, potentially shaving a few seconds off everyone’s time was just the cherry on top of the improvements that...
This is the last set of 2015 Race Day photos. It’s a photo gallery of some of the 190 Knee Knacker volunteers as they: Lugged kegs of water to Black Mountain; Recruited Black Sabbath to serve water on Black Mountain; Ran Cleveland Dam aid station with the efficiency of a well oiled machine; Dressed as Vegas...
