I'm riding in honor of our friends we've lost to cancer: my father Donald K. Grose, Janet Harvey, my friend Bob Upham with whom I spent many happy hours fishing in Grand Lake Stream, and your loved ones and friends, whose names I wear on my jersey.

And I'm riding in celebration of survivors like my sister who was diagnosed with breast cancer. Happily, she's now cancer-free, thanks in part to the state-of-the-art medical research that the Pan Mass Challenger supports through Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

And I'm riding in the memory of Anna Thorpe, a PMC volunteer for over 10 years who passed away in March of 2020.