PO2 Craig Blake Memorial Fitness Challenge

Kicking PancreAS™ – Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers—but together, we can make a difference.

About the Event

Kicking PancreAS 2026 is a fun, inclusive 5K for all levels and abilities—whether you choose to walk or run, set a personal goal and take it at your own pace.

Returning to Nova Scotia, we’re building on an incredible 2025, where we saw 451 participants and over $46,000.00 in donations. This year, we’re aiming even higher! Our goals are:

1. 500 participants

2. $55,000.00 in fundraising!

We are counting on participants to invite friends, family, and colleagues to join the movement. Together, we can make 2026 our most impactful year yet, in Manitoba

Every step—and every dollar raised—supports pancreatic cancer awareness, patient support, healthcare education, and Canadian research, helping change outcomes for those impacted by this disease.

💜 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia — September 26, 2026

📍 Location: Sullivan's Pond Gazebo

⏰ Start Time: 6:30 PM (Check-in at 5:30 PM)

🕒 Course Open: 90 minutes

What’s Included

• Finisher medal

• Running bib

• Event swag

Let’s light up the night! Wear purple and glow-in-the-dark gear—costumes encouraged.

Race Kit Pickup

📆 September 25, 2026 | ⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM

📍 Decathalon, 21 MicMac Blvd., Dartmouth, NS, B3A 4N3

📞 PH: (902) 593-2233

💜 Can't make it to race kit pickup? Don't worry, you can pick them up on race day at 5:30pm until 6:15pm.

⚠️ Spots are limited. There is NO onsite registration.

Fundraise for Impact

Participants are encouraged to fundraise and rally friends, family, and colleagues. Every dollar raised stays in Canada and helps fund critical programs and research that bring hope to patients and families.

Call to Action

Register today, set your personal 5K goal, start your fundraising, and invite your network to join you. Together, we can Change the Outcome.

Despite slavery being abolished, anti-Black racism is still prevalent in our provinces and country. To honour Emancipation Day (August 1), collectively we are accepting that slavery existed in what we now call Canada. As a founder and co-organizer of Black Lives Matter (BLM) - In This TOGETHER, our executive team wanted to look at ways to enable our group’s mission statement (see below) to educate, but also create a better understanding of slavery and its implications on the social determinants of health of people of African ancestry.

It is extremely important to spread awareness through acknowledging but also acting on ways to address anti-black racism past and present. To do so, we must acknowledge, act, and ameliorate.

The Emancipation Run/Walk is just one small step at MOVING forward in the right direction!

A little bit about BLM - In This TOGETHER: BLM- In this TOGETHER was formed on July 11, 2020 in Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia. This was largely in response to George Floyd’s death and the means to spread awareness by unifying people to MOVE within the BLM Movement, as sitting still does nothing.

Our group, BLM - In this TOGETHER supports the BLM Movement. This is done in contrary to the fact of everything that is going on in this world that has implicated the lives of Black people, and even here in Nova Scotia.

Our vision is to move within the Movement and to move to dismantle inequality, racism, police brutality, and systematic racism, but also bringing awareness to the impacts of such experiences on one’s overall health.

Date:

Saturday August 22, 2026

Where: 10 Cherry Brook Road ( Start and finish race/run)

Leaving the Black Cultural Centre turn left up Cherry Brook Road to the T junction. Turn left onto Cherry Brook Road and proceed as far as Loon Lake Road. Turn right on Loon Lake Road and run to turn around point heading back along Loon Lake Road until Cherry Brook Road take a left onto Cherry Brook Road and follow Cherry Brook Road back to the Black Cultural Centre. See below photo of measured race!

Time:

8:30am - 9:45am Race/walk kit pick up at 10 Cherry Brook Road ( Black Cultural Centre), as we will finish the celebratory event at this location!

930am -- Race whistle is blown at 10 Cherry Brook Road ( Black Cultural Centre) where the race will start and finish

NO COST for 5k Walk/Run (FREE) ~ TOGETHER let's spread awareness and make some positive change

Please contact: [email protected] for more information

T-shirts onsite for sale - Starting at $10.00 - $25.00 (not a part of your race kit)