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, March 15, 2016

Catching Up

I'm pretty far behind on posting to the blog and with a number of things to catch up on, I will keep this post short.  With only 33 days until the marathon, we're in the home stretch of training and fundraising!  We've raised over $7,700 thus far this year and over $57,100 since beginning this adventure in Nov 2011!  Looking forward to the day when I can say that we've passed the $60,000 mark for the 5 years!

This past Saturday was a drop down week for us followed by the patient partner poster party.  We got RJ's poster done and I'm sure it will look great at the pasta party on April 17!  The run itself was the first run this season where shorts and a t-shirt were appropriate clothing.  It warmed up quickly and though we started a little slow, we pushed the pace at the end, running in the low-mid 8min/mile range.  It also felt great to hit some of the hills and power up them, passing a number of runners along the way.  Hopefully this holds true during the marathon as well!

This week we'll be increasing mileage back up to the 16-18mi range and then it's our bing 20mi weekend before we start to taper and rest up for the marathon.


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