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Run for Youth

  • 02/08/2021 - 15/08/2021

Keith Tan KT is participating in Care Corner Singapore’s 40 Days of Care (Travel concession for youths from challenging backgrounds)
and is fundraising for Care Corner Singapore Ltd

I'm hoping to make a little difference by raising money for school-going youth who needs help with transport money. Please support me and them by donating.

My Story

Hello just a final update that Care Corner has raised its target of $20k for marginalised youth. With Tote Board matching it, its $40k. So there's no need for further donation. Thank you all for your kindness and my run has contributed ~$1k ($2k after Tote's match). It means I need only run 1km at 5:00 on Sat hehe. But I will make up 3km at 5:00x2 and 5:30 which I didn't match in my 10km run last week. Cheers 😁

Update on First of 10km Run: So grateful for the donations that made this run possible. I haven't been running 10km for many months. So my strategy was to to hit the hardest km (4:30) early and keep the easiest km (6:00) as a wild card as long as possible whilst running the rest (5:00-5:30). As it was, I needed to run the wild card by the 6th km and my body crashed at the last 3km, finishing in average ~6:30/km for that 3km stretch when supposed to run 5:30 and 5:00x2. All in, I managed the 10km in about 56mins. All donations go to the cause 😁 Please see the gallery for the Run breakdown.

Looking forward to the second 10km with a better strategy to keep pace.

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Almost every other run is like a mental gymnastic at least for me. It's pretty normal, at my age (50), to have thoughts of just another 10 more minutes in bed or it's a good day to "nuah". So defying these thoughts is a challenge in itself.

Although I've finished over 10 marathons (best time under 4h) and a full Ironman triathlon, with age catching up, nowadays I train for 1500m with occasional 5km runs every now and then as part of training for that. Rarely do I go over 5km now.

So my targets are going to be a serious challenge for me. I will put in the "extra mile" as this is for a good cause. In return for your donation to youth in need, this is what I will endeavour to complete for each of the four consecutive weeks starting from the first week of August 2021 (i.e. a total of 4 10km runs in 4 weeks, 1 run each week in August 2021):

Each Run Distance: Up to 10KM
Target Number of Donors: 40. (Up to 10 for each Run.) One donor for each KM
Time Target:
$20 donation: 6:00 (i.e. I will run one km in roughly 6 minutes or below within the (up to) 10km run).
$30 donation: 5:45.
$50 donation: 5:30.
$100 donation: 5:00.
And $200 or above donation: 4:30.

Personally I would prefer the smaller donations for easier run meh LOL, but feel free to challenge me for a good cause haha. If there are more than 40 donors, no worries, I will defy more by running more, maybe by further two weeks or 10+km runs. After each Run, I will update with stats from my Garmin watch. Many thanks for your kindness. Cheers.

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Recent Donors

  • FF Chia

    SGD 100 08/04/2021 02:27:55 PM UTC

  • William Chua

    SGD 50 08/04/2021 04:40:59 AM UTC

  • Yukai Toh

    SGD 100 08/02/2021 12:05:17 PM UTC

  • LISSION TAN

    GO KEITH, GO ! RUN FOR THE KIDS ALL THE BEST, LISS

    SGD 50 08/02/2021 08:05:16 AM UTC

  • Geraldine KC Lim

    SGD 50 08/02/2021 06:07:49 AM UTC

  • Tian Hock Choo

    SGD 100 08/02/2021 06:05:13 AM UTC

  • JY

    Have an awesome run Kah Tian! Break a leg!!

    SGD 250 08/02/2021 05:56:46 AM UTC

  • Hwee Ting Liang

    SGD 100 08/02/2021 05:10:04 AM UTC

  • Hwi Bee Teo

    Go Keith! Doesn't matter how fast or far that you run. The effort to raise funds to lessen transportation loads to these kids, that's all that matters

    SGD 25 08/02/2021 04:22:08 AM UTC

  • Peter Chua

    SGD 50 08/02/2021 04:21:08 AM UTC

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