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, March 5, 2016

Superhero Weekend

I'm a bit late posting about last Saturday's run, but at least I'm getting it done before tomorrow's group run.  Last Saturday was Superhero Saturday.  I don't know how this event got started but it's always a fun day.  Our volunteers were out in full superhero garb and while many of us runners didn't know about the day, many other charity runners did.  We saw plenty of 'Incredibles' costumes as well as firefighters, Army personnel, Batman, Wonder Woman, Thor and many others.


The training run was a drop down week so we only ran 14 miles and are getting ready for our 18 mile run tomorrow.  Hopefully the run will go just as well.  As both marathon training and the 70.3 training pick up, I'm still feeling good and from what I can tell, no lingering issues from last year's stress fracture.  I finally figured out how to look at my historical mileage and I'm sure it's obvious when the injury occurred :)  Glad to be back at it with goals in sight!


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