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 28, 2018

A Tough Day

Similar to last week's run, I hoped to get through this morning's group run and not feel bad.  I completed the run, but not the mileage that I was hoping to hit.  The first few miles went well and though I noticed that my left side and ribs were not 100%, they were not bothering me much.  After we started to hit the downhills of the run, our pace picked up and a few miles later, my side was aching.  I hoped to complete ~16 miles today, but cut it short and turned back at the 5 mile mark.  On my way back to our starting point, I started to feel better and decided to add another 2 miles in.  12 miles on a Sunday morning wasn't bad and after slowing down on the back 1/2, my ribs felt better.  I'll have to back the pace down in the upcoming days, but at least I can run.

The week ahead should include a speed workout on Tuesday and a tempo workout on Thursday, before 14 miles (hopefully!) on Saturday.  I'm not sure whether these will go as planned, but hopefully I can get some miles in this week.

Fundraising is going strong and we're nearing the 1/2 way point to $15,000!  We've raised over $6,500 to date and as a team, DFMC2018 has raised more than $1.5M thus far.  All of this will benefit innovative cancer research at Dana-Farber!  Thanks for the support and let's keep it going!
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