TOGETHER we will TACKLE CANCER. The Patriots Platelet Pedalers are a group of like-minded individuals of all cycling abilities. We ride each August in the Pan Mass Challenge to raise critical research dollars for Dana Farber Cancer Institute. OUR goal is a world without cancer!
2019 was another great year for the Patriots Platelet Pedalers as 194 team members raised a whopping $1,372,404. This marked the 5th consecutive year in our 22-year history that we raised over the $1 million!
Join us to help find a cure for cancer by riding your bicycle as a member of the Patriots Platelet Pedalers. The team rides in the Pan Mass Challenge to raise money for cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The Pan Massachusetts Challenge, a weekend-long charity bicycle ride to benefit Dana-Farber through the Jimmy Fund. Started in 1980, the Pan Mass Challenge is the largest charity bicycling event in the country, raising over $717 million for cancer research and treatment.
In 2019, the Patriots Platelet Pedalers 194 team members raised over $1,372,404 for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 100% of the money the team raises is earmarked for Dr. Ken Anderson, the Kraft Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, to support his multiple myeloma research and development of novel therapies. While the team fundraising is restricted to this research, a recent quote from Dr.Anderson explains that our fundraising helps more than just those diagnosed with multiple myeloma. The most recent exciting news is that one of the drugs we identified and studied both in the laboratory and clinical trials leading to its FDA approval (lenalidomide) is useful when taken on a chronic basis to prolong the time without myeloma. This assures that myeloma is a chronic illness in many, if not most, patients!! Moreover, our research on new drugs to treat myeloma has already extended not only to help patients with other blood cancers such as leukemias and lymphomas, but also to patients with solid tumors such as prostate, colon and breast cancers.
For more information on how to ride in the Pan Mass Challenge with the Patriots Platelet Pedalers, please email us at PatriotsPlateletPedalers@gmail.com or call Gary at 781-812-8377
To help us achieve our goal in 2020 please use the link below to donate to our team fundraising!
http://www.pmc.org/mypmc/profiles.asp?Section=donations&eGiftID=TP0053
| Activity total 1280 |
Activities |
Days.Hours:Min 70.23:15 |
Distance 19,972.50 mi |
Elevation 744,322 ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Bernacki | 148 | 07.09:00 | 2,278.97 mi | 89,621 ft |
| Derek Burke | 19 | 01.07:30 | 399.06 mi | 17,367 ft |
| Lee Eckhart | 145 | 12.03:47 | 3,315.18 mi | 78,061 ft |
| Terry Flaherty | 78 | 05.15:45 | 1,995.96 mi | 82,082 ft |
| Julie Frias | 34 | 01.04:27 | 271.37 mi | 4,145 ft |
| John Hogan | 5 | 00.11:24 | 151.66 mi | 5,710 ft |
| Louise Kursmark | 101 | 03.06:10 | 632.96 mi | 17,728 ft |
| Jackie McCrillis | 2 | 00.03:19 | 23.62 mi | 1,451 ft |
| Bob Messier | 2 | 00.03:54 | 50.22 mi | 1,214 ft |
| Joel Porten | 15 | 01.11:45 | 495.83 mi | 20,311 ft |
| Steven Smith | 1 | 00.03:19 | 45.84 mi | 2,044 ft |
| Mel Stoler | 112 | 11.00:05 | 3,601.62 mi | 161,596 ft |
| Jim Sullivan | 121 | 03.06:48 | 557.58 mi | 29,454 ft |
| John Taylor | 55 | 02.10:24 | 554.08 mi | 21,332 ft |
| Liz Thornton | 79 | 05.00:52 | 2,001.45 mi | 46,793 ft |
| Mike Trudell | 243 | 08.07:33 | 1,686.78 mi | 84,466 ft |
| Julie Zaveloff | 120 | 07.13:06 | 2,316.98 mi | 80,947 ft |
TOGETHER we will TACKLE CANCER. The Patriots Platelet Pedalers are a group of like-minded individuals of all cycling abilities. We ride each August in the Pan Mass Challenge to raise critical research dollars for Dana Farber Cancer Institute. OUR goal is a world without cancer!
2019 was another great year for the Patriots Platelet Pedalers as 194 team members raised a whopping $1,372,404. This marked the 5th consecutive year in our 22-year history that we raised over the $1 million!
Join us to help find a cure for cancer by riding your bicycle as a member of the Patriots Platelet Pedalers. The team rides in the Pan Mass Challenge to raise money for cancer research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The Pan Massachusetts Challenge, a weekend-long charity bicycle ride to benefit Dana-Farber through the Jimmy Fund. Started in 1980, the Pan Mass Challenge is the largest charity bicycling event in the country, raising over $717 million for cancer research and treatment.
In 2019, the Patriots Platelet Pedalers 194 team members raised over $1,372,404 for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 100% of the money the team raises is earmarked for Dr. Ken Anderson, the Kraft Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, to support his multiple myeloma research and development of novel therapies. While the team fundraising is restricted to this research, a recent quote from Dr.Anderson explains that our fundraising helps more than just those diagnosed with multiple myeloma. The most recent exciting news is that one of the drugs we identified and studied both in the laboratory and clinical trials leading to its FDA approval (lenalidomide) is useful when taken on a chronic basis to prolong the time without myeloma. This assures that myeloma is a chronic illness in many, if not most, patients!! Moreover, our research on new drugs to treat myeloma has already extended not only to help patients with other blood cancers such as leukemias and lymphomas, but also to patients with solid tumors such as prostate, colon and breast cancers.
For more information on how to ride in the Pan Mass Challenge with the Patriots Platelet Pedalers, please email us at PatriotsPlateletPedalers@gmail.com or call Gary at 781-812-8377
To help us achieve our goal in 2020 please use the link below to donate to our team fundraising!
http://www.pmc.org/mypmc/profiles.asp?Section=donations&eGiftID=TP0053
| Activity total 1280 |
Activities |
Days.Hours:Min 70.23:15 |
Distance 19,972.50 mi |
Elevation 744,322 ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Bernacki | 148 | 07.09:00 | 2,278.97 mi | 89,621 ft |
| Derek Burke | 19 | 01.07:30 | 399.06 mi | 17,367 ft |
| Lee Eckhart | 145 | 12.03:47 | 3,315.18 mi | 78,061 ft |
| Terry Flaherty | 78 | 05.15:45 | 1,995.96 mi | 82,082 ft |
| Julie Frias | 34 | 01.04:27 | 271.37 mi | 4,145 ft |
| John Hogan | 5 | 00.11:24 | 151.66 mi | 5,710 ft |
| Louise Kursmark | 101 | 03.06:10 | 632.96 mi | 17,728 ft |
| Jackie McCrillis | 2 | 00.03:19 | 23.62 mi | 1,451 ft |
| Bob Messier | 2 | 00.03:54 | 50.22 mi | 1,214 ft |
| Joel Porten | 15 | 01.11:45 | 495.83 mi | 20,311 ft |
| Steven Smith | 1 | 00.03:19 | 45.84 mi | 2,044 ft |
| Mel Stoler | 112 | 11.00:05 | 3,601.62 mi | 161,596 ft |
| Jim Sullivan | 121 | 03.06:48 | 557.58 mi | 29,454 ft |
| John Taylor | 55 | 02.10:24 | 554.08 mi | 21,332 ft |
| Liz Thornton | 79 | 05.00:52 | 2,001.45 mi | 46,793 ft |
| Mike Trudell | 243 | 08.07:33 | 1,686.78 mi | 84,466 ft |
| Julie Zaveloff | 120 | 07.13:06 | 2,316.98 mi | 80,947 ft |
We have chosen to keep all of our donors' information confidential; therefore it is not displayed on our PMC public donor list.
| 2021 | $17,654.03 | PMC Rider |
| 2020 | $1,197,486.13 | PMC Rider |
| $0.00 | PMC Winter Cycle | |
| 2019 | $1,370,264.05 | PMC Rider |
| 2018 | $1,151,701.00 | PMC Rider |
| 2017 | $1,173,799.01 | PMC Rider |
| 2016 | $1,057,693.72 | PMC Rider |
| 2015 | $1,019,950.57 | PMC Rider |
| 2014 | $854,861.14 | PMC Rider |
| 2013 | $719,734.39 | PMC Rider |
| 2012 | $754,258.05 | PMC Rider |
| 2011 | $704,204.10 | PMC Rider |
| 2010 | $820,919.76 | PMC Rider |
| 2009 | $789,399.19 | PMC Rider |
| 2008 | $616,925.24 | PMC Rider |
| 2007 | $384,429.61 | PMC |
| 2006 | $435,561.81 | PMC Rider |
| 2005 | $652,264.26 | PMC |
| 2004 | $698,962.41 | PMC |
| 2003 | $657,692.26 | PMC |
| 2002 | $595,974.01 | PMC |
| 2001 | $490,752.80 | PMC |
| 2000 | $387,132.48 | PMC |
| 1999 | $356,740.83 | PMC |
| 1998 | $128,459.20 | PMC |
| 1997 | $108,666.16 | PMC |
