2025
Last year I was unable to ride due to Covid. This summer I'm once again planning to ride for Larisa as she battled breast cancer in 2024!!!
2024 -- Cancer hits home
This is my 21st ride in my 20th anniversary year. I'm pedaling from Wellesley to Bourne, a ride of 85 miles on Aug. 3. This year cancer has hit home. Please support my ride!
20th ride!
Doing the Wellesley to Wellesley start for my 20th ride in the PMC! I can't help bring us closer to a cure without you! Please support my ride!!
Year 19
Update! Just signed up for the 100 miler!
Back at it. Last year, Arthur and I had a great ride to Patriots Place and back. My plan is ride 50 miles again to support those battling cancer! Please donate to my ride in memory of those who have died from cancer, and in honor of those battling this disease.
Year 18
I'm back at it this year with a 50-mile ride from Wellesely to Patriot's Place back to Wellesely. But even though the mileage may be less than in year's past, that doesn't mean you can't support what is one of the greatest causes on the planet -- the fight against cancer! I'm once again riding in memory of Sue de Vries and all those who we have lost to cancer over the years, too many to count and name. But Sue's fight against cancer is everyone's fight. Please support my ride.
Year 17
Arthur and I were planning to take it a little easier this year with a 50-mile ride from Babson, College in Wellesley, to Patriot's Place and back to Wellesley! We were going to volunteer in Bourne doing our bike parking thing, again. Then the coronavirus forced the ride to go virtual! However, cancer is real and it's not taking any time off!
Arthur is a survivor and I am riding virtually for Sue and all the other people in my life who have battled cancer. Please support the Jimmy Fund and Dana/Farber as they work to find a cure.
Thank you!
16 years
Volunteering at the Mass Maritime Academy in Bourne and then riding back to Babson College the next day I'll be cranking with my good friend Arthur, a cancer survivor. Let's hope it doesn't rain! Please support my ride in memory of Sue de Vries!
Year 15
78 miles this year if we don't get lost again!
Yes. I got lost again last year riding from Bourne to Wellesley. The mistake cut out three miles of the route!
You know the story! I'm riding for Sue, a friend and fellow rider who died from breast cancer at age 44. And I will be volunteering again this year in Bourne helping to park bikes. Thank you for all your support. Please help me raise $3,000 to beat cancer and support the Jimmy Fund and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Peace!
Ethan
LUCKY 13TH PMC UPDATE JULY 2016
WISH ME LUCK AS I VOLUNTEER IN BOURNE AND RIDE 80 MILES UPHILL BACK TO BABSON COLLEGE IN WELLESLEY ON AUG. 6. THIS IS MY SECOND BIG FUNDRAISING RIDE THIS YEAR, SO ANY DONATION TO THE PMC/JIMMY FUND IN SUPPORT OF DANA-FARBER WILL GO TO HELPING THOSE WITH CANCER BEAT THIS AWFUL DISEASE. I CAN'T WAIT TO RIDE AGAIN FOR SUE DE VRIES, WHO HAS BEEN GONE FOR 10 YEARS AFTER LOSING HER FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER. I KNOW YOU ARE UP THERE IN HEAVEN, SUE, EATING YOUR HAMBURGER IN THE BIG TENT AFTER FINISHING UP YOUR LONG, GRUELING RIDE.
TAKE CARE,
ETHAN
12th PMC!
I'm doing the 50-mile loop on Sunday in memory of good friend Sue de Vries, who got me into cycling again after a bad car accident in 2001.
Please keep Sue's memory alive. It's been nearly 10 years since she died. You can remember all those fighting cancer by giving as much as you can to my ride. Let's help Dana-Farber beat cancer.
Thank you for your support,
Ethan
2010: I'm 44 and riding in my seventh PMC. It's the same age Sue, a good friend and fellow PMCer, was four years ago when she died of breast cancer. I'm training hard and plan to ride from Sturbridge to Provincetown. See you on the roads.
UPDATE: We are again riding for Welles this year. Please look out for Team Wishing Welles as we go from Sturbrudge to Provincetown for little Welles, a former Swampscott boy who is battling cancer.
THANK YOU.
Please read past year's stories below:
2009 Thanks to my friend, James Jimmy Moineau, I'm riding for Team Wishing Welles this year. Welles, our pedal partner, is a 4-year-old Swampscott kid who lives a few blocks from me and who is going through Lance Armstrong-like chemo, Jimmy says. I'm torn because I'm stepping off the team Sue once rode for. I wish all the WOW3s well. Someday, I may rejoin them. This year, it is important for me to support a local family's efforts to beat cancer. How did we find out about Welles? Welles' mom wrote a simple 'thank you' letter to a local paper which prompted Jimmy to reach out to the family and form the Wishing Welles team. I'm just going to ride for them, and perhaps design our team shirt. Please support our ride this year. It's fitting that little Welles has dubbed Jim Jimmy. What a fitting name for a guy raising money for the Jimmy Fund, which originally raised money to fight childhood cancer. Thanks for your support as I go the distance from Sturbridge to Provincetown.
2008 Please help me reach my goal of raising in this year's Pan-Mass. Challenge. I need help as time is running out. The money you raise goes to help cutting edge research get off the ground at Dana-Farber, helping to save and prolong the lives of cancer patients.Please give by making an egift donation using the button on the right.See you in Provincetown!!
2007 Time for No. 4 for the Formans. This year I will ride in Memory of Sue de Vries, who we are all in shock about not having around any more.But this year I'm riding for my dad, Hyman Forman, who has diagnosed with cancer three days before he died. He was too sick to diagnose, because of the need for biopsies and other intrusive tests. But why didn't doctors detect his cancer before? Why didn't they look to see if there was a history of cancer in the family. Modern medicine let my dad down. The story of my dad shows more needs to be done to diagnose and treat this disease.No. 4 is for the Formans. I need your help!(Below, I wrote last year and it sums up why I ride for Sue)
Sue died today, Thursday, April 20, 2006My friend Sue de Vries's five year battle with cancer is over. A cancer survivor, she was the one who got me to ride in my first PMC in 2004. Last year, she rode 87 miles and we met up at lunch and again in Bourne. Little did I know then that this would be her last PMC. In her memory, I will ride 192 miles and raise as much as possible for the Jimmy Fund and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. It's a place where Sue was treated by some of the best cancer specialists in the world. Sadly, not even the best in modern medicine could save her life, which is why I'm appealing for you to give and to help make a difference in the lives of others. May my friend's death not be in vain.Ethan 4/20/06I raised my goal this year. Thank you to everyone who helped make some meaning out of the senseless tragedy of Sue's death... See you on the roads! Thank you to my larisa, sophie and aveen for allowing me to train and ride. I love you. E.
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