Hi! THANK YOU SO MUCH for finding your way here. Please donate as generously as you can. Together, WE proactively save and prolong lives. As life offers its ups and downs, expected course and curveballs, WE STILL RIDE.

I ride for Randy.

I ride for my dad.

I ride for Jane.

I ride for Scott's sister Nicole.

I ride for the all the Pedal Partners (children who are alive today because of Dana Farber)

I ride for Brady (my deceased brother's infant patient who Randy courageously and compassionately treated)

I ride for all friends and families so we can see our loved ones reach their potential.

Please dig down deep and donate.

Gratitude and love WILL win the day!

Debbie

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To my family, good friends, and loyal supporters,

I ask you to donate generously to my upcoming Pan Mass Challenge (PMC) ride!

I hope June 2025 finds you well and grateful for all of life’s blessings.

Without apprehension, I am asking you to donate to the Dana Farber Cancer Institute through the PMC (Pan Mass Challenge) bike-a-thon and my upcoming participation in it.

The cruelty and injustice of cancer persist, and I am committed to do my part to help those living with it and ultimately squash it. This summer will be my seventh participating in the PMC and as long as I am able to ride, I shall.

I will be joining the thousands of other cyclists fired up to raise funds for Dana Farber Cancer Institute. My team, Team Kermit, specifically channels its donations to the Jared Branfman Sunflowers for Life Fund, Pediatric Brain & Spinal - which supports the work of researchers (we’ve met and heard these incredible doctors speak of discoveries, breakthroughs, and advances).

This year, I will be spreading out my mileage across the summer months instead of condensing it into one wild and woolly weekend. Back, hip, and hamstring issues remind me (loudly and, frankly, obnoxiously) that my wild and woolly cycling days are over, or at least on hiatus. Yet, as they say, she persists. Thus I will pedal in shorter doses but across many more days. While I’ll miss the camaraderie and and festivity of thousands riding as one, I will instead cherish the meditative aspects of solo cycling and let my mostly intact body ache in rhythm with my heart that continues to ache for my brother Randy and Corinne, Emily, and Sarah, as well as his grandchildren who never had the chance to know their amazing grandpa.

Amidst your busy summers and own consternations,, please take a deep breath to create space to recognize and acknowledge all of your blessings…. I will be channeling my inner Randy as I pedal each day knowing that every mile and every dollar helps. I’ve seen it.

With as much love and gratitude as ever,

Debbie