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, March 18, 2018

Pace$etter Reached!

DFMC has a goal of raising $5.5M this year for the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Cancer Research at Dana-Farber.  As part of the DFMC team, team members who raise at least $8,000 are considered pacesetters from a fundraising perspective.  Thanks to nearly 70 donors, we surpassed $8,000 today!  I've now reached pacesetter status each of the 6 years I've run and couldn't have done it without the generosity of so many amazing donors.

This weekend's run was a solo run of 18-miles.  For various reasons I just didn't make it out to the team run on Saturday, but managed to get my miles in, despite the cold (20s) and wind (20+ mph).  Running into a headwind for 1/2 the run wasn't fun, but it made me work a bit harder.  This run resembled the rest of the week in that things didn't go quite as expected.

After last week's 15 miles, I geared up for a speed workout on Tuesday.  As the nor'easter hit Boston on Tuesday and Arlington racked up 20+ inches of snow, I decided that 3+ hrs of shoveling was a sufficient workout for the day.  Thursday was a good tempo workout, 9 miles at ~8.10 min pace.  A bit faster than I plan for marathon day, but a good workout given the missed day on Tuesday.  This week will be more of the same - speed work, tempo work and our longest training run of the season next weekend - 22 miles.  Fingers crossed the week goes well with no more shoveling!
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