This April, hundreds of Dana-Farber runners will take to the streets to participate in the 129th Boston Marathon®. The Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team runs and raises funds with thousands of special people in mind. From Hopkinton to Boston, we carry thoughts of those people every step of the way.
I will be running knowing that my mom, Jill, is looking down on me along the course. I ran Boston in 2018, after signing up a few months after receiving her Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer diagnosis. Despite the weather, that race was one of the greatest experience of my life, and it was something that made my mom SO proud. Now here we are a few months after she lost her battle to cancer, and I am excited to channel my grief into positivity during the next few months of training and fundraising, and I thank you in advance for your support!
100% of every dollar raised by the DFMC team supports the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. These funds are fueling some of today's most promising basic cancer research, and I am happy to do my part in raising money for the amazing team of doctors and researchers that helped care for my mom over her 7 year battle.
I look forward to crossing the finish line again knowing that my mom is looking down on me with pride, and as part of the DFMC team, we all look forward to crossing the ultimate finish line: a world without cancer.
