A fundraising runner for the St Baldrick’s Foundation children’s cancer charity is on target to race through the $1 million barrier at the Chubb Bermuda Triangle Challenge this weekend.

Kevin Maloney, 61, said after his efforts last year that he and his team, #RunForLisa, named after his late wife, who died of cancer, were about $130,000 short of the magic million.

Mr Maloney, a senior vice-president at the insurance giant Allied World in New York, added that he expected to better the numbers that his more than 70-strong team fielded last year — a massive increase on the three who took part in the first run nine years ago.

He said: “If someone had told me that back in 2017 that we’d have so many people running to pass the $1 million mark, I would have asked for whatever they were smoking.”

Mr Maloney, a regular visitor to Bermuda for business and holidays, decided to throw himself into raising funds for St Baldrick’s after Lisa, a keen supporter of the charity, died in 2016.

He said: “I often say, and I mean this, I can feel Lisa’s joy at what I’m doing.

“Normally, when I take that last turn to get to the marathon finish line, I’m choked up and about to cry.”

Mr Maloney added: “If we even help one child to either live a little bit longer or a little more pain-free for the time they are on this earth, Lisa’s heart will burst with joy — she’s really happy. I know it.”

Mike Almskog, a friend who has run alongside Mr Maloney in every triangle challenge since the 2017 event, said: “I feel great — to hit the million mark is fantastic. We’ve gone from three people running to maybe 75.”

The group will do the Butterfield Mile, the Allshores 10k Run and the PwC Bermuda Marathon over the three-day challenge.

Mr Almskog, who works in claims at CNA Insurance in New York, added that the 2026 team included friends and colleagues from Bermuda and overseas, encompassing 20 different companies.

He said: “It’s just going to grow and we’re going to keep bringing people to Bermuda and running with Bermudians.”

Mr Alsmkog added: “The money, of course, is amazing and helps support the wonderful work St Baldrick’s does.

“But events like this also help raise awareness of childhood cancer and hopefully inspire other to get involved in the fight.”

Mr Maloney said: “I couldn’t have done anything like this without Mike — one is good, but two is better. He brought the whole team to the fight in a way I couldn’t have done.”

He vowed to press on with fundraising and aim for the next million, or two, over triple challenges yet to come.

Mr Maloney said: “We’ll be coming back to Bermuda for the rest of my life. God willing, when I’m a 90-year-old man, I’ll still be running for Lisa.

“I’ve said before, as long as I can run, I will run. If I can’t run, I’ll walk. If I can’t walk, I’ll crawl. If I can't crawl, then Mike can push me along in a shopping cart.”

Mr Maloney added that Colm Homan, who lost his 16-year-old son, Eoghan, to cancer three years ago, had joined his wife, Niamh, and their daughter, Aisling, in being appointed a St Baldrick’s ambassador family for 2026 in recognition of their role in the battle against the disease.

He said Mr Homan, a retired partner at financial services firm PwC Bermuda, and Aisling would run with team #RunForLisa this year.

Mr Maloney said: “We are honoured to have them run with us. They are the reason we do what we do. Everybody that battles this horrible disease is a warrior.”

St Baldrick’s Foundation was created by John Bender, now Allied World Reinsurance’s chief executive, and friends Tim Kenny and Enda McDowell in New York in 1999.

The foundation’s first fundraiser was held in an Irish bar in the city on St Patrick’s Day a year later.

The charity has handed out $369 million in research grants since 2005, and its fundraising events, including its famous sponsored head shaves, are now held around the world, including Bermuda.

• Kevin Maloney’s donations page is on the St Baldrick’s website atwww.stbaldricks.org/fundraisers/mypage/29694/2026