West Hartford runners for Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team

BOSTON – On April 15, 2013, Bryan Jaroch, Kelly Horan and Thomas Golembeski from West Hartford will be running in the 117th Boston Marathon® to help conquer cancer as members of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team.
These West Hartford residents, along with more than 550 Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge teammates from across the United States and around the world, will run Massachusetts' historic marathon route from Hopkinton to Boston with a goal to raise $4.6 million for cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
One-hundred-percent of the funds raised benefit Dana-Farber's Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research, which supports cornerstone science research in its earliest stages, providing researchers with critical resources to test their leading-edge ideas. Findings from Barr program research can provide novel clinical insights as well as the results necessary to seek additional federal funding.
Since its inception in 1990, the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge has raised more than $56 million for the Barr Program. Dana-Farber Trustees J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver founded the Barr Program in 1987 to honor Mrs. Weaver's mother, Claudia Adams Barr, who lost her battle with cancer in 1957.
Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team members must meet one of the following fundraising commitments:
·     Invitational runners, runners who receive an entry from Dana-Farber have a fundraising commitment of $4,000.
·     Own entry runners, runners who have joined the DFMC after obtaining their own race entry have a fundraising commitment of $3,500.
To contribute to the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge, go online to www.RunDFMC.org or contact the Dana-Farber Running Programs office at (617) 632-1970 or dfmc@dfci.harvard.edu. Follow the DFMC on Facebook: www.facebook/marathonchallenge.