Dear family and friends, I'm a proud participant in this year's Pan-Mass Challenge - a very special event. This event's unwavering focus is for cyclists to ride across Massachusetts to raise money for cancer research and a cure for a disease that I trust hits close to home for many of us and our families. When I ride my bicycle, I prefer to race against a clock or enter an event of endurance, but now is the time to ride my bike for a cause larger than me. In my lifetime and even this year, cancer has impacted people I love and it is only fitting that this is the year I am riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge.

Since its founding in 1980, PMC riders like me have raised more than $1 billion for lifesaving cancer research, treatment and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, one of the country's top cancer care hospitals. I spent time learning about this cause and PMC is making a difference in the lives of patients at Dana-Farber and around the world. The funds I raise support the innovative work of doctors, nurses, and scientists in their search for cures for cancers and related diseases for everyone and everywhere.

100 percent of every dollar I raise goes directly to Dana-Farber, meaning any donation will have impact. Please donate to my PMC fundraising and help me reach my fundraising goal. EZ