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Page 4 <strong>Medway</strong> & <strong>Millis</strong> Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com <strong>August</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
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a lumpectomy and 36 radiation<br />
treatments, and my youngest was<br />
two and my oldest was five. Just<br />
having to go to all the appointments<br />
and second opinions when<br />
I was diagnosed – I couldn’t and<br />
didn’t want to go,” says Davina,<br />
who also dreaded the side effects<br />
of chemotherapy. She felt angry<br />
about her situation, but appreciated<br />
“that they gave me options.”<br />
She wanted to put the experience<br />
behind her and forget about<br />
it, but she couldn’t.<br />
“I literally woke up one morning,<br />
and said ‘Steve, I want to run<br />
home, from Michigan to New<br />
York,’” says the runner. “He was<br />
like, absolutely not.”<br />
While her husband took some<br />
convincing, Davina was determined,<br />
and he turned into her<br />
biggest supporter.<br />
“I wanted it to be big, to mean<br />
something, to get people’s attention.<br />
I was thankful they found<br />
my breast cancer early, thankful<br />
for my outcome. They got it out,<br />
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McNaney was welcomed and supported by her husband and two<br />
daughters at the end of her trek. Photo by Tim Rice Photography.<br />
and they got it all out. It wasn’t<br />
in the lymph nodes … People<br />
aren’t dying from breast cancer<br />
so much (as before), because<br />
they’ve done so much research,<br />
and that’s what I wanted the<br />
money to go toward.”<br />
The Breast Cancer Research<br />
Foundation (https://www.bcrf.<br />
org) funds over 200 researchers<br />
around the world.<br />
“They do an amazing job,<br />
with a bunch of them in Boston<br />
and just all over the world.<br />
Ninety-one cents of every dollar<br />
donated goes to funding research,”<br />
says McNaney, who also<br />
has a master’s degree and works<br />
in the disability resource office of<br />
Mass Bay Community College.<br />
Davina had done ultra-marathons<br />
before, and she did some<br />
research on long-distance runs.<br />
“Basically, once I have my<br />
mind made up, it’s done. I don’t<br />
stop until I reach my goal,” she<br />
says. “I looked at everything I<br />
would need to do to be successful<br />
and had a plan laid out,” says<br />
McNaney. Her motivation was<br />
complemented by her husband’s<br />
ability to assess risks.<br />
“He’s an insurance VP, a risk<br />
assessor. He’s very safe and calculated<br />
in the way he does things.<br />
I’m calculated, but I like to take<br />
calculated risks, and I won’t stop<br />
until I reach my goal. We’re a<br />
good team in that sense. We balance<br />
each other out.”<br />
No doubt Davina enjoys running.<br />
Although she’s run marathons,<br />
that distance, she says, is<br />
not her favorite. She prefers and<br />
has done several longer races,<br />
including 100-mile, 50-mile, and<br />
50K races. She’s part of a <strong>Medway</strong><br />
running group, The <strong>Medway</strong><br />
Momma Striders.<br />
“For a 50K, it’s 32 miles.<br />
Those are usually on trails, easier<br />
on the joints, not on pavement,<br />
and going through the woods is<br />
a much more scenic and relaxed<br />
feeling, like it being an experience,<br />
a journey, rather than just<br />
a race,” says the runner. When<br />
asked what she enjoys about it,<br />
the athlete answers, “The solitude.<br />
The control. I have one job,<br />
I need to move forward and get<br />
to the finish line. It’s all under my<br />
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<strong>Medway</strong> resident and breast cancer survivor Davina McNaney finished<br />
a 390-mile run and raised $24,732 for the Breast Cancer Research<br />
Foundation in early July, her second such run for the cause. She began<br />
her run at the Boston Harbor Hotel. Photo by Tim Rice Photography<br />
control. I’m aware of my body,<br />
aware of my surroundings. It’s a<br />
simple thing,” she says.<br />
For this last trek, McNaney<br />
credits local gym Training for<br />
Warriors, also one of her sponsors.<br />
“They whipped me into<br />
even better shape,” she says.<br />
“They had us pushing sleds,<br />
using body weights, TRX stuff. I<br />
couldn’t believe how much stronger<br />
I was getting. It really helped<br />
with running and not getting injured.<br />
I feel it was a huge attribute<br />
this time.”<br />
Preparing to run hundreds of<br />
miles isn’t easy.<br />
“I worked out more than I<br />
worked,” says Davina, would<br />
go to the gym five times a week,<br />
incorporating five or six runs<br />
that included long runs (about<br />
20 miles). “Some of it included<br />
doing up to eight miles dragging<br />
a tire,” she says. Later, she<br />
says, she had a nightly routine of<br />
stretching, Epsom salt-soaking,<br />
drinking water, a muscle rub and<br />
more stretching.<br />
Starting on June 22nd, Davina<br />
began her run home from<br />
Boston, even running in 90-degree-heat<br />
for four days straight.<br />
“I didn’t collapse,” she says, “I<br />
made it every day.” Her husband<br />
and girls encouraged her. “They<br />
were there with me four full days<br />
through the Green Mountains.<br />
I cried every single day – you’re<br />
emotionally drained. You’re<br />
physically drained.” The heat,<br />
the mountains and the sleep deprivation<br />
were the hardest parts,<br />
she explains.<br />
Although her husband and<br />
girls are very proud of what she’s<br />
accomplished, Davina has promised<br />
no ultra runs this year – but<br />
she won’t stop running. “If I get<br />
the itch to do something else, I<br />
can always do a 10K, or 50K, or<br />
a half marathon.”<br />
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about Davina McNaney and<br />
her cause, or if you would like to<br />
donate to BCRF, visit www.bostrun2ny.com.<br />
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