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, February 10, 2019

Drop Down

Wow, just after my last post some company matches and additional donations came through and we've now raised more than $12,200 for innovative cancer research this year!  This puts us less than $5000 to our goal of $17,000 this year!  I'm continually motivated by the generosity of so many people and couldn't do this without this amazing support.  Thank You to everyone!

This past week was a drop down week for training, at least for the long run.  After 16 miles last Saturday, I've been feeling some tightness in my calves and soreness in my left foot.  As such, I played it safe and ran 13 miles this weekend.  The weather was quite windy but otherwise nice and running with Scott and Nancy always helped pass the miles.  I've also been better this weekend about stretching and massaging the leg muscles to make sure the tightness & soreness don't get worse.

Otherwise training has been going well.  I was in DC for a work conference and had a great morning for a run around the National Mall.  I had forgotten how many times the mall is interrupted by traffic, but was still able to get in a speed workout and some nice sightseeing. I'll see how I feel mid-week but hope to continue the speed work and temp runs before next Saturday's group run of 18 miles.  Hard to believe that the longest training run (20-22 miles) is only about 6 weeks away and the marathon is only 9 weeks out.



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