Throughout my life, cycling has taught me one fundamental lesson: how far we can go is only limited by how hard we continue to push ourselves to keep going, mile after mile. This same spirit of possibility is drives cancer researchers, doctors, and patients every single day against this disease.

This will be my 1st year participating in the Pan-Mass Challenge - a bike-a-thon that raises more money for charity than any other single athletic fundraising event in the country. Since its founding in 1980, PMC riders like me have raised more than $1 billion for lifesaving cancer research, treatment and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the country's top cancer care hospitals.

We all know someone whose life has been touched by cancer. A parent. A friend. A colleague. Their battles remind us that while we can choose our challenges – like deciding to ride 88 miles across Cape Cod – cancer patients don't get to choose theirs. But we can choose to fight alongside them.

Please join me in supporitng the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and follow along as I prepare for my 88-mile journey this August!