About Me

My Goal: Run the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2019 with the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge. Raise $17,000 (or more!) where 100% of funds raised benefit the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research. I run in honor of my friend Chris Davie who is battling brain cancer. I also run in honor for my friend RJ and his continued cancer-free life, in memory of Heather Thomson, and for other family and friends who are or have battled cancer. Together we can help Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reach the ultimate finish line: a world without cancer

Barr Program Impact Statements

Barr Program Impact Statements

Immunotherapies: New Ways to Activate the Immune System—An important area of cancer research asks why the human body's defense systems do not always attack and destroy tumors as they form. Funded by the Claudia Adams Barr Program, Glenn Dranoff, MD, discovered complex regulatory pathways in the human immune system that cancers exploit in order to escape destruction. Reversal of these effects can lead to the development of vaccines against cancer, like Provenge for prostate cancer. This research has also enabled the development of immune-activating drugs such as ipilimumab, which showed striking effects in melanoma in a trial led by Dana-Farber scientists and is now approved by the Food and Drug Administration for treatment.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

1/2 Way There!!

It was a big week for several reasons.  First and most importantly, I have raised more than $5000 for Dana-Farber and cancer research!!  This obviously would not have occurred without the generous donations that everyone has made along the way to support my efforts and DFMC experience.  THANK YOU to everyone for your support!!!
As for training, we're about 2 months away from Marathon Monday and I'm definitely getting excited the closer it gets.  Tues PM was a great speed workout.  Unfortunately the group that I've been running with is slowly dwindling in #s because of aches and pains.  We still had a good group running the 1000m speed workout but I was surprised to that the extra 200m (compared to the previous week) felt so much harder.
The speed workouts must be paying off though as on Thursday night I did the Crossroads run again.  Taking the T out of Boston and then running the marathon course back in is a good route.  At times it may feel like playing "Frogger" but there's safety in numbers.  This week I wanted to push the pace and we did.  Even with the hills of Newton (which includes Heartbreak Hill) we averaged 8.20min/mi over 9mi!! Made the pizza and beer that much better.
Fri AM was definitely a little more sore b/c of the faster pace, but I planned to take the Sat group run a little slower as an easy run.  Of course, even the best plans don't always come together (unless you're the A-Team of course) and b/c of chatting along the course, the "easy/slow" run was more of a race pace.  Guess that's a good thing since we did 16mi today.  Starting at the BSC in Wellsley, MA allowed us to run a good section of the marathon route today along with a number of other charity groups running.  Given all the miles this week (~48mi including last weekend's 1/2 marathon) what better way to spend a Sat night than stretching out the legs and relaxing on the couch!
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