I'm participating in the PMC in memory of the many family members that we have lost to cancer, including my father (Howard Lewis) and brother (David Lewis) and Craig’s mother (Georgia Macauley) and stepmother (Naomi Macauley). I'm also riding to honor several relatives and many friends who are cancer survivors.

Both my dad and my brother were runners and my brother played basketball, ran track and cross country and raced bicycles. In the spring of 2007 when Dave was recovering from his bone marrow transplant we talked a lot about endurance events and we vowed to try a triathlon when he was healthy again. Unfortunately, cancer took him first. Because of those conversations with Dave, I have completed events I never thought possible - a marathon in 2007 and a half IronMan in 2010 and a century ride (in the form of PMC 2015 and PMC 2016).

This year I decided to try something new - PMC Unpaved! Craig is joining me and together we will ride our gravel bikes in Western MA on September 23rd.

The thing I like best about the PMC is that 100% of rider-raised funds are used for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For interesting information about the PMC, see http://www.pmc.org/sites/pmc.org/files/backgrounds/unrestrictedgiving.pdf

Please consider sponsoring the PMC mission with a donation.