I RIDE BECAUSE I HAVE TO: 2019 IS MY 16TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR RIDING. CANCER DOESN'T REST. NEITHER DO I!!

For the 16th consecutive year, I will ride my bicycle in the Pan Mass Challenge on the first weekend in August. I ride again to raise critical research and patient care dollars for Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Cancer sucks. It doesn't care if your young or old. Poor, wealthy or somewhere in between. Male or Female. It doesn't even care if you already beat it once. Cancer is not one disease it is over 200 different diseases. The PMC is cancers worst nightmare. We are making incredible progress and many diseases are now curable or chronic. But many people die. Too many friends, too many family members.

This is my 12th as the captain of my team THE PATRIOTS PLATELET PEDALERS. Our team is my second family and they and the PMC have become part of my fabric, my DNA, my story. I have witnessed so many great successes in treatment for friends and loved ones, but I have also seen too many tragic and painful deaths. I can't sit by and be a spectator. This year I ride in memory of so many I've lost over the years. Too many to name, but I hold them all close to my heart.

My goal for this year is $13,000. Let's do this! Your donation is fully tax-deductible and thanks to corporate underwriting of the event, every single rider-raised penny goes to DFCI to continue the ground-breaking research and to help patients. Please donate online or mail donations to me at 10 Hampshire Avenue, Sharon, MA 02067. Please make checks payable to PMC

Peace! Gary