This year will be my 12th PMC...one of my favorite weekends of the year!  Twelve years ago when I rode in my first PMC, I thought it was just going to be a one time thing! It's become a very special weekend and one that I look forward to every year! However, due to everything that is happening in our world today, this year's PMC will be like no other...it WILL be a "Re-Imagined" PMC.  

I haven't quite decided what my "Re-Imagined" PMC will look like, but it will be with a small subset of Team LUNGSTRONG, it will be two good long rides on some different roads, and it will end with a couple of Harpoon Beers!!  I'll miss Friday night in Sturbridge, riding with my fellow teammates, drinking Harpoon at Mass Maritime, seeing all the wonderful volunteers & cheering crowds, seeing Diane with her living proof riders and their special toast, riding over the Bourne bridge and the Cape Cod Canal as the sun comes up, the lobster rolls in P-town, and the party ferry ride home with Diane & our teammates.    

Even though this will not be the PMC that I have become accustomed to, we will make the best of it, because even thought my PMC has been "Re-imaged", why I ride has not.

I ride in the PMC for a number of reasons, but the most important reason I ride is to raise much needed money for lung cancer research. This ride is personal to me because my wife, Diane, lives with advanced stage lung cancer; she is a rare 15 year fighter and is on her 2nd clinical trial.  100% of all the money raised goes to Dana Farber Cancer Institute where 100% of the money that Team LUNGSTRONG raises goes towards Lung Cancer Research, under the direction of Dr. Pasi Janne, at Dana Farber. Dana Farber has been leading the way in lung cancer research and I hope that some day soon they will be able find a cure or at the very least make it a treatable disease that is no longer fatal.

There has been more progress in lung cancer research in the past 5 years than there has been in the last 30 years. We are blessed to live so close to Boston and to have this kind of care accessible to Diane. I am excited to be part of a team that will continue to support this critical work, giving us the hope that we need.

Thank you for your support,

David Legg

www.lungstrong.org