This will be my 17th PMC! Last year I surpassed $110,000 in personal fundraising, thanks to all of my donors, and the PMC as a whole surpassed $1 billion in fundraising (no, that's not a typo). Even so, every year I feel like I have more people I am riding for. I still ride first and foremost for Amie White, my friend who died too early of ovarian cancer and yet crammed more spunk and life and friendship into her too-few years than most of us will in a lifetime. And for her mother, the amazing Tobie Shapiro, who lost both her daughter and her husband shortly thereafter to cancer. And my amazing mom, who has been in treatment for the last few years for multiple myeloma at Dana Farber, the very organization the PMC benefits, and continues to demonstrate as she has so many times in her life that she is one the strongest people I will ever meet. Last year I added my Uncle Tris, my dad's college roommate who passed away from cancer just a few weeks before the ride.

And so I keep riding. I truly appreciate any donations, large or small, that you are able to make. Thank you very much in advance, and Godspeed.