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.

Sunday, January 31, 2016

A good way to end the week

On Tuesday I went out for my first 'real' speed workout this training season.  I hit a mile in a 7+/mi pace, then a 4-5K in the 8s and finished with another mile ~7.15/mi pace.  If felt good during the run but on Wed started to have some muscle tightness in my right leg/hip.  Of course I couldn't help but think of my hip and hope that I didn't make a bad choice.  I decided to take the rest of the week off and not push it.

Today was our team run and we hit the course for part of it.  I ran 14.5 miles and after taking most of the week off, I felt remarkably good.  I finished the run at a good pace and it was a great day to be out there.  Perhaps not quite beach weather, but that was the theme at one of the water stops today.  Hopefully we won't have a beach day on April 18, but today was a good one.


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