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.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

6 Days to Go...

Wow, it's been an incredible last week...$1,880 raised in the last week alone!!  That brings the grand total raised to $10,757 from over 150 donors!  The support from so many new and repeat donors has been incredible and your support and generosity will be a huge motivating factor come Monday.

Speaking of Monday, I'm not sure about others, but I've been checking out weather.com every day for the last week or so.  Today's forecast is for 63-64F as a high with partly sunny skies.  While this is not an ideal temperature range (I'd prefer about 45-50F) it is substantially better than this year.  There's still time for the weather to move up or down, but fingers crossed that it stays dry at the very least.

As for my current training, I'm continuing to taper and last week ran a grand total of ~21 miles, many at a much slower pace than past runs.  This week will be about the same distance though I'll also be running on Sunday in the BAA 5K as a warmup race.  Though I won't be racing this race, I'll use it as a nice opportunity to stretch out my legs and get warmed up for the marathon on Monday.  We'll see how well this strategy works.  As for the race itself, I'm definitely getting excited for Monday and there's only a few days of work and the weekend to get through!
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