100% of proceeds from the 2025 Kirby Kid Race Mini Fun Run May Fundraising Challenge and from Canada's largest marathon's 2025 BMO Vancouver Marathon 8 km fundraising run are Kirby Kid Race funds that are donated to London Health Sciences Centre's children's hospital's pediatric patients in Kirby Patton's hometown of London, Canada thanks to the LHSC's Children's Health Foundation where Kirby volunteers.

Kirby Patton, Hons. B.A. Dip. Ed. OCT. BCT.
Kirby Patton, Kirby Kid Race, Founder/CEO
Intl. Children's Hospital Boston Marathoner/
Intl. Kids Fun Run Fundraising Ambassador
100 K Oxfam Ultramarathoner, Mini Fun Run
Kirby Kid Race NICU Newborn Fundraiser
Canadian Educator, Model, Kinetic Ed. Specialist

Kirby Kid Race Launch!

Break from life's digital intensity! Leave heaviness behind! Feel freed-up! Ignite your brain! Unblock stuck states! Re-energize your body! Celebrate your spirit! Gain fresh vitality! The Kirby Kid Race is for those who love to boost their state and boost kid's self-esteem through interactive engagement! It's a treasured exchange! It's a happy pastime!The Kirby Kid Race invites nations of children, families and people of all ages and abilities to unite in health and move freely in fun-filled Kirby Kid Race 3 Min. Mini Fun Run exercise drills! It's for individuals with open hearts who link up in a collaboration of goodwill. It's easy workouts for a worthy cause!A portion of your Kirby Kid Race Sign-Up, and participation, supports children's hospital NICU newborn babies! It's a movement for the masses who crave to raise their own bar of progress! Electronic devices off! It's breakout time! Enjoy uplifting Kirby-FIT Fun Run drills! Jump in! Join the Kirby Kid Race Party no matter where you are and how you feel!Move, in your way! Unwind! Shine! Conquer! Live your dreams by taking life one breath and one step at a time!

"RUN your heartbeat with love!" - Kirby Patton, Kirby Kid Race Founder & CEO

Kirby Kid Race 3 Min. Mini Fun Run Challenge!

3 Min. MOVES! Massive NICU Baby Impact!

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The Kirby Kid Race Mission

The Kirby Kid Race mission is JOY through movement for people of all ages and abilities which turns cranky states into cheerful states by uniting children and grown-ups in Kirby Kid Race 3 Min. Mini Fun Run Exercise Training Drills! You'll crave Kirby-FIT FUN healthy habits helping worthy children's hospital NICU newborn babies survive and thrive!

The Kirby Kid Race Vision

The Kirby Kid Race vision is to launch a child race of Mini Fun Run Heath Ambassadors who are children's hospital NICU newborn baby $ difference-makers and fun run champions! The Kirby Kid Race vision invites young and the aged to have more daily FUN together!As Kirby Kid Race ambassadors who LOVE 2 FUND nations of children's hospital NICU newborn babies, each lionhearted children's hospital NICU infant beneficiary is a life to thrive beyond measure thanks to your Kirby Kid Race registration fee. A portion of your Kirby Kid Race 3 Min. Mini Fun Run registration fee helps fund children's hospital NICU newborn babies from their first breath of life.

Be ONE♥️NICU Distance-Maker!

Be ONE♥️NICU $ Difference-Maker!

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Can YOU be a mini marathon medal winner?

YES!
♥️OUI! ♥️JA! ♥️SI! ♥️SHI!

Walk! Wheel! Run! Cheer! Feel home free each breath in the Kirby Kid Race world!

The Kirby Kid Race nurtures child-partnered bonds, grows compassion and fosters fellowship through caring contributions in early childhood by linking active kids with at-risk kids who thrive in Kirby Kid Race experiential adventures!  Youngsters train up with family, friends, schoolmates and communities, alongside Kirby Kid Race educational mascots, who all enjoy fun run movement and creative dance. Children participate at their own readiness who become our world's avid mini marathoners and humanitarian child ambassadors from the comfort of their homes, communities or anywhere a child is found who can walk, wheel, run or cheer on children's hospital NICU newborn babies!Everyone's overall mood improves as children, families and people have more daily fun with a common purpose of goodwill at their hearts! The result is growing resilient mindsets in Kirby Kid Race Mini Fun Run Drills with kids helping kids in need! The Kirby Kid Race impact means tackling life hurdles with winning mindsets and genuine positivity while having more FUN and JOY in the process of encountering life's inevitable setbacks. The Kirby Kid Race can quickly rebound! The Kirby Kid Race are ONES who bounce back from setbacks using strategic skill sets in Kirby FIT-FUN time!Kirby Kid Race launch pads and mini fun run circuits provide innovative fun fitness, mental health support and digital brain breaks for children, families and individuals! Children's trusted intuition is firmly sealed in Kirby FIT-FUN workouts through repeated transition drills and self-proven practice for overcoming challenges with mini fun run comeback power!  The Kirby Kid Race are model citizens of our human race from the onset of life in preparation for young children becoming
LIFE MARATHONERS!The Kirby Kid Race are bold mini masterminds, mighty mini marathoners and adept adaptive champions!The Kirby Kid Race 3 Min. Mini Fun Run Drill is a kid's kinetic education workout for empowering populations of children to embrace their unique strengths and areas of individual growth with confidence and compassion. The Kirby Kid Race has disciplined behaviour, self-pacing tools and modification skills for mastering endurance as a pathway to navigate brave comebacks with effective rebounds. The Kirby Kid Race learn to heal themselves and care for another's mental, social and emotional well-being by participating in the Kirby Kid Race community enjoying fun run social interconnections.

The Kirby Kid Race 3 Min. Mini Fun Run breakouts build secure and happy kids whose shared identity is moving together as ONE united child race who Love 2 Move and who Soar 2 Help! The Kirby Kid Race 3 Min. Mini Fun Run is an inclusive community for babies, tots, teens and everyone to enjoy training up for indoor and outdoor fun runs, marathons and life comebacks with true inner resolve! The Kirby Kid Race invites nations of children, families and people to sign up for their mini fun run experiential adventure and to motivate nations of children, families and people to aim to be the next  aspiring Boston Marathoners worldwide!
We run a healthy society from the inside-out!Get On Track With Kirby Kid Race!
Be ONE Medal Transition Titan!Are YOU 3 Min. Mini Fun Run $ distance-makers?
Are YOU 3 Min. Mini Fun Run $ difference-makers?

On Your Mark! Get Set! GO!
RUN for your life!
Exercise lifetime KIRBY-FIT FUN Runs!Discover Your Inner Joy! Feel Like A Big Kid Inside! - Coach Kirby"RUN your heartbeat with Kirby Kid Race to fund NICU newborn babies!" -Kirby Patton

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Benefits & Outcomes

YOUR INTRINSIC BENEFITS!
Your Inner Freedom!
Your Reboot Power!
Your Natural High!
Your Non-Stop Smiles!

The Kirby Kid Race Real Deal $ Distance-Makers are the ONES who have more FUN in life with intrinsic benefits! They're Kirby Kid Race mini fun run marathon ambassadors who LOVE 2 FUND nations of children's hospital NICU newborn babies!The Kirby Kid Race Real Deal $ Distance-Makers are communities who go above and beyond to empower themselves and one another for soaring inside-out! Train up in FUN fitness! Get Kirby-FIT FUN hooked! Reunite with loved ones, family and friends at local and international marathon fun run medal finish lines as The Kirby Kid Race ONES who go the distance forCHILD HEALTH 1ST PLACE🏅!WORLD HEALTH 1ST PLACE🏅!BE ONE Kirby Kid Race 3 Min. Mini Fun Run ambassador for NICU newborn babies!YOUR INTRINSIC OUTCOMES!
Unlimited Potential!
Super Soul State! Unshakeable Mindset! Breakthrough Confidence!
Strategic Self-Pacing! Brain-Body Health!
Trusted Intuition! Emotional Fitness!
Physical Fitness! Intrinsic Self-Worth!

Be a Kirby Kid Race children's hospital NICU newborn ambassador! Enjoy FUN Kirby Kid Race mini fun run training drills! RUN! GO test drive your Kirby Kid Race 3 Min. Mini Fun Run NOW! LIVE your new adventures with your family, friends and community!Your every MOVE matters! Be miracles in motion for a worthy cause! Walk! Wheel! Run! Cheer your heart out as the world's bold ONES who LOVE 2 Fund children's hospital neonatal intensive care unit NICU newborns!Be ONE Mini Fun Run Distance-Superhero!
Help save the lives of sweet NICU newborn babies who are fighting for their lives! Help support Kirby Kid Race by going the distance with Kirby for our world's bravest NICU newborn fleet of champions!

Bonus Invitation!

Sign UP! Be on The Kirby Kid Race team next year!

Join the FUN and run with Kirby in person next year on May 2-3, 2026 at Canada's nation's largest international marathon and kids fun run event! Register TODAY! RUN! SIGN UP to be on The Kirby Kid Race team next year! Have fun training up with Kirby Kid Race this season of life! RUN with Kirby virtually or in person at the 2026 BMO Vancouver International Marathon 8 km (May 3) or run your heart out at the 2026 BMO Vancouver Marathon 2.4 km Kids Run (May 2)! Kirby's passion as a Boston Marathoner is blissful fun runs with YOU for children's hospital NICU newborn babies!

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What distance would you go for a loved one?The distance you choose makes ALL the difference!The distance you go makes a world of difference for a loved one, friend or stranger is what I know for MPS super kids. Each of us can make a difference by going the distance to simply show up and champion ONE child by 1 donation! It may be hard to imagine that by ONE of us going the distance for another ONE, we make a life-altering difference! How can we know by going the distance with $1.00 dollar, it makes a world of difference for ONE by our actions? We can trust a "walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7. This is the precise mindset MPS super kids live by!  Our actions make a difference by faith-filled MOVES for another ONE who sees someone cares to show up for ONE.Imagine, for a moment, you land on another continent meeting families whose tots, teens, and adult children all have  miniature, physical stature whose loving demeanor transports you into an unfamiliar, colorful world that is reminiscent  of feeling you’ve entered the musical film The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy clicks her mystical, red, ruby slippers 3 x. Such is my real-life, magical adventure tale that took me from Canada for meeting sweet Hong Kong MPS warriors.My heart dashed ahead of my stride as I walked through the door of the recreation center where precious children  and families of the Hong Kong MPS Group came into view who I offered educational activities to in my volunteerism. In an instant, my heart melted and my eyes tearfully flooded as I was gently greeted by a roomful of families whose  children’s bright smiles are etched on my heart to this day! My MPS Love Story is about Hong Kong’s brave MPS children and families whose lives are consumed by HOPE as MPS children battle to outrun rare genetic diseases.I’ll go the 8 K distance on May 4 for their MPS 20th anniversary on May 1st to honor each worthy child’s miracles! HKMPS super kids are real-life, ultramarathon, medal winners with giant dreams who are genuinely mesmerizing!May 4, I'll step into my favorite Mizuno runners in my passionate role as a Boston marathoner, 100K Oxfam ultra marathoner and fun run fundraising ambassador to celebrate the victories of inspirational MPS children and families!The distance each one of us goes for another ONE makes ALL the difference no matter how far the distance traveled  because it’s by showing up that we mark the start of another one’s visibility to matter by our compassionate care.Hong Kong’s honorable MPS Group tots, teens, adults, and their families, who I adore and admire over 18 years, are lionhearted champions some of whom LOVE 2 Run measurable, marathon fun run distances who are half my size!Each ONE! Each life. Each child. Each teen. Each family. Each community member is ONE valiant distance-maker! “A Win by ONE thriving MPS soul makes 1 significant difference to empower WINS for ALL sporting global smiles.”Canada's nation's largest BMO Vancouver international marathon, 1.2 marathon and 8K sold out long ago by a world  of “distance-makers” who will walk, wheel, run and cheer on people from all nations for each living ONE’s best life! Each walker, wheeler, runner and supporter is ONE who is going the distance for their own reason for global impact  as goodwill ambassadors for a world of children, families & people to celebrate each ONE’s impact helping us ALL.In my privileged 18 year rapport with enchanting HKMPS children and families who are a beacon of peace to people  in all corners of the world, my message is, "an international workout is external beauty, run with heart!”- Kirby Patton.My commitment May 4 is to walk-run 8 K honoring MPS super kids yet speed’s not part of my 8 K marathon mission.My invitation to YOU is to extend your helping hand as ONE distance-maker making 1 difference matter by joining  me to celebrate our world’s radiant MPS superheroes by your move to “Champion ONE child by $1.00 donations!”It’s a lifetime privilege to step out on behalf of Hong Kong’s beloved MPS super kids and families for a first time in  Canada for a 20th anniversary tribute to them all and celebrate their 2025 MPS anniversary feats and living legacy!“Nations of BMO Vancouver marathoners and fun run athletes are distance-makers; ONES who live out their dreams by the imprint of their soul's footprints!”-Kirby Patton.OPRAH, in her wisdom is life’s silver lining who reminds us of  our BIG picture! 1 life is marked by 1 GIANT reason to go the distance! Helping out shows ALL, each ONE counts!How about jumping into “fun fitness!” Join my 2025 Kirby Kid Race Challenge for making your 1 MOVE For ONE Donation count by funding fearless MPS kids in your kind Kirby Kid Race 1$ donations for my MPS 8 K distance! Guess what experience fills me up to an unimaginable NEXT-LEVEL soul-opening state?Your 1 MOVE for MPS kids!Go walk, wheel and run your local or international marathon fun run distance! You may start to feel in your family fun run an inner power, if you feel the way I do, for helping move mountains for yourself and another ONE! It's pivotal to what motivates me to return to the “ZONE” of the BMO Vancouver International Marathon in the city where I ran my 1st fun run pushing my wheelchair-bound superhero Vancouver’s Sun Run 10 K distance in 1999.As a Boston International Marathoner late bloomer, in my 40’s, how I wish my childhood was laced with marathon family fun runs for enjoying great health/quality family time/new friends through meaningful philanthropic footwork!When I laid my eyes upon Hong Kong’s MPS children's hospital’s youngest newborn patient, merely weeks old, I  was committed to help RUN 2 Fund her non-government funded, life-saving medication to give HOPE to 1 MPS life.Dec. 2, 2007, I ran the Macau international marathon for ONE unstoppable MPS INFANT and again, Dec. 2, 2012.ONE, fearless, sensational Hong Kong MPS super baby ambassador is now 18 years old! Hong Kong Ling Liang  Church Kindergarten's school community’s 2012 wheelchair fundraiser shows 1 Bold MOVE in their LOVE 2 Fund ONE 6 year old MPS girl’s dream come true! Her medal result is owning her 1st wheelchair in her favorite color pink!Let’s be "2025 distance-makers” together! Thank you for your 1 MOVE for $1.00 DONATIONS for MPS super kids!  MPS children’s supernatural strength to fight adversity with indomitable courage is an awestruck, child phenomenon!  Kind-hearted HKMPS children and families overcome each heart-wrenching challenge who lead us ALL, by example! A daunting daily distance by HKMPS super kids is a daily race against the clock to survive and outrun their disease!  Will you go the distance to“RUN your heartbeats?"Let’s MOVE as 1 human race who “LOVE 2 Fund” kids 1 by 1.” Thank you for your generous donations to mark the MPS children’s strides on their 20th anniversary celebration! As you “Champion ONE child by your 1 donation,” MPS children’s lives link us ALL by heartbeats and heartstrings! Thank you for your support to Hong Kong’s heroic MPS children & families of rare Mucopolysaccharidosis disease! 20th anniversary congratulations to Hong Kong MPS superheroes on your miraculous 2025 ambassador milestone. With love, prayers and gratitude for our world’s “distance-makers!”Kirby Elizabeth Patton, Dip. Ed. Hons. B.A. OCT. BCT. “Where there is life, there is movement.” - Kirby Patton

Are you the ONE?Are YOU a distance-maker?"Picture this! You're standing at a distance looking out at a world whose leaders capture your imagination and stir your heart to move, but you are frozen in your tracks at the mere sight and majesty of their individual and collective power. Thoughts tell you that you can't belong to such a pack of warriors in life who mentally and physically excel beyond measure. They lead fearlessly. They are people who gather together from all nations and who rhythmically unite in one place for health, happiness and in their love to help support others to reach their full potential. They are local, national and international citizens who love to show up and tackle life for cultivating formidable mental health, healthy lifestyle, physical resilience and well-being in order to defy the odds and gain comeback power for facing life's challenges.Each ONE has a GIANT reason for their forward motion and drive to not give up. Their unstoppable mindset launches their heartbeats into a race against the clock which is, indeed, measureable by their astounding footprints. They're people who take their place in life, at the start line, with divine reverence and awesome responsibility who are determined walkers, wheelers, runners, and cheering enthusiasts. They are the ONES to go the distance for crossing their International Marathon 42.2 km medal finish lines which unifies them all. Stopped in my tracks, at the mere sight of a Vancouver, BC run group in 2001, I recognized it was a feat out of my human reach. It's a sport with a fantastic formula modelled by ONES belonging to Running Room Canada and YMCA-YWCA training groups who are well-practised, committed race participants who I saw float above the ground by their run beat across the Burrard Street bridge. Utterly captivated and desiring the same superhuman power that they all possessed, I tried to shift my defeated perspective. All the while my heart was pounding out of my chest as though I was back in the myriad of emergency, hospital room theatres as I had flashbacks to my non-stop, prayerful vigils in the hospital zone where corridors and overnight stays had become a familiar, second home to me.A 42.2 km marathon distance was far beyond my imagination's grasp when I'd been absorbed in the 24-7 care, by years, of my beloved for ensuring my British Columbia Children's Hospital neonatal intensive care unit NICU newborn baby survived who was unexpectedly born with undetectable brain by CT scans at birth. Living by split-seconds, in watch over my child's very survival, with dozens of medical specialists in our daily life, this was my normal given my child's multiple, physical and intellectual disabilities. My sole focus, and no. 1 life passion remains to champion my child and for my child's each breath to be safeguarded in caregiving so that my lionhearted, loving powerhouse shines all the days that life affords us! I knew how to become a children's hospital NICU newborn baby advocate and maternal force by sheer instinct, will, work, hope, faith, and trust in a higher power, exercising relentless endurance for the round-the-clock care of my superbaby from Day 1. My infant's chronic, back-to-back, emergency, brain surgeries brought about coast to coast, life-saving operations in Canada's British Columbia's Children's Hospital and Toronto SickKids Children's Hospital with a lifetime of gratitude for our world's frontliners and for passerby's kindnesses.My thoughts returned to a distance of 42.2 km that was unreal to me. Yet, my younger self and 7 year old inner voice seemed to grow louder and louder within me even as I grew more fearful to see joyful runners hit their strides as a pack and cross the Burrard St. bridge coming closer into view. A mighty, invisible force steered me in a direction of fearlessness, with a no return stance, which literally propelled me out of my state of anxiety for mindfully pivoting to a BOLD, fresh perspective to "outrun my fear and run my heartbeat with love in life." It was, in fact, the striking example of leadership of my own superhero and phenomenal children's hospital NICU newborn baby who has survived and who thrives over decades.The ONE who brilliantly exercises how "to outrun fear by running life with love" each second of my wonder child's life while in the hands and the trust of devoted strangers, at first sight. Quality of life I have learned, by my child's living testimony, is a conscious, spiritual practice of "walking by faith, not by sight" who was born blind and who uses loving breathwork to perfectly communicate and model the bravery and indomitable spirit which ALL international children's hospital NICU newborn champions model, the world over. Unshakeable NICU feats from the get-go which my own ONE distinguished gentleman and superhero lives by. How do you run the 42.2 km distance? One breath at a time, and one step at a time. Our international children's hospital NICU newborn babies are our global race of leaders and teachers.My ONE reason to show up and train in 2001 with Running Room and YMCA-YWCA marathon training groups is crystal clear to me. My ONE reason for achieving unthinkable, athletic feats as a Boston Marathoner, 100 km ultramarathon, and children's hospital fundraising marathon ambassador over decades in my international career as a professional educator is crystal clear to me. My ONE  reason to survive and recover from my multiple accident injuries abroad with comeback power to safely walk-run this year's 2025 BMO Vancouver International Marathon 8 km is crystal clear to me. We are absolutely powerful beyond our wildest dreams for comeback power by showing up, breathing, and running our heartbeats with love. Our living testimonies reflect a world of daily, ultramarathon, medal champions as a human race by our shared, real-life storytelling. Why not start by trying ONE fun run! Finding ONE reason for movement is the key as your own gatekeeper! International children's hospital NICU newborn babies are heroic, mesmerizing, stupefying distance-makers who contribute to our highest potential by their example as massively-loving, difference-makers who show up, never give up and lead the NICU pack to become life's best versions! International children's hospital NICU newborn babies are ALL my ONE reason to return to run Vancouver Canada's nation's LARGEST BMO International Marathon and fun runs on May 4, 2025 precisely 22 to years later to the exact date of my Vancouver International Marathon Boston Marathon 42.2 km (26.2 miles) Qualifying Finisher Time on May 4, 2003. A life feat thanks to Running Room and my RR pace bunny! My 2003 Vancouver International Marathon Boston Marathon qualifying time was 3:49:20.This journey always reminds me of my ONE reason to make a comeback with a smile and put my best foot forward in life thanks to the ONE I live for and who I emulate! I started my run journey by walking. I got shin splints along Vancouver's breathtaking seawall. My purpose was to move for FUN, pray and run my heartbeat with love. Training is the strategic edge I learned and the ultimate, injury-free pathway to healthy, sport performance, recovery, and high endurance athleticism. How do you return to the zone that you once excelled at when you've experienced loss of any kind to derail you and show up a different way? You simply click your heels together 3 x like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz remembering your ONE reason to show up for going the distance. I am utterly grateful and truly honoured to show up, one more time in life, and with all my heart try my best to go the distance in a healthy, happy, fundraiser for NICU newborns, ONE to "outrun fear and run my heartbeat with love in life." Humanity's heart-wrenching loss is a call to action for a new pathway which is not for the faint-hearted. AND the best news is just like me, I am ONE of your kind who can succeed to adapt believing that what seems unreal in a split-second can be transcended by faith in the next breath to be the author and finisher of our uncharted, life chapters. "We're worthy to try for it's in the journey that hidden surprises of a lifetime pop up waiting to celebrate out lives." -Kirby Patton, Kirby Kid Race Founder, CEOAre YOU the ONE?Are YOU a distance-maker?Are YOU a difference-maker?If yes, RUN to help me go to the BMO Vancouver Marathon 8k distance on May 4th by your kind donation to Canuck's Place Children's HospiceThank you for running your courageous heart with your kind donations to Vancouver, British Colombia BC Canuck Place Children's Hospice whose children I am running for in the BMO Vancouver Marathon in the 8 km fun run on Sunday, May 4th. As a passionate BCCH Children's Hospital parent, 2007 BCCH Children's Hospital Foundation Vancouver Marathon 42.2 km superhero run ambassator for their new BCCH children's hospital, and a keen BCCH children's hospital and Sunny Hill Heath Centre Volunteer, I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude for your generous support to BC Canuck Place Children's Hospice whose teams deliver the utmost, exceptional pediatric, palliative care in out precious children's final days with infinite love.-Kirby Patton, Dip. Ed. Hons.B.A.BCT.OCT