Kevin Blake Half Marathon PB Attempt #Breaking90

Hello! Many thanks for visiting my page. I have wanted to raise funds for the wonderful cause of retraining and rehoming racehorses for a number of years now. I am an animal lover first and foremost and am very lucky to live a life that revolves around thoroughbred horses of all ages, so I am thrilled to be able to help raise funds for this cause.

Retraining of Racehorses (https://ror.org.uk/) and Treo Eile (https://www.treoeile.com/) do very important work in this area on both sides of the Irish Sea and I am proud to be supporting them . Any funds raised on this page will be divided 50/50 between those two organisations who do so much for the animals that we owe so much to.

I've been waiting for the right challenge before asking people to donate and I reckon I've found it. I'm going to try and run the Boston Scientific Clonmel AC Half Marathon (August 24th) in a time of under 1 hour and 30 minutes. I've been road running for 20 years and only once have I ran a half marathon faster than 1:34.00. That was when I ran 1:31.39 after spontanuously making myself accountable to the world via social media (https://x.com/kevinblake2011/status/1941121151352426610) back in July. That planted a seed for a more organised effort and I've been training hard since then in advance of trying to knock another 100 seconds off that mark on August 24th.

I'm only a few months away from turning 40, so my days of PBs should be long behind me, but I've trained as hard on the roads as I ever have since mid-January, totting up over 1500km on the road and losing 13kg on the scales. I've been getting great help with my training from Trevor Cummins (@trainwithtrev) and have a few much faster runners than me that are going to join me on August 24th to try to keep me at the right pace, so trust me when I say that we are not messing about here!

On that note, if you would like to join us on the run, by all means sign up and be part of the effort (https://www.popupraces.ie/race/clonmel-ac-half-marathon-2025/). Any donations at all are greatly appreciated, as is any sharing of this fundraiser on social media. Let's go!!!