I raised over $21,000 in 2023 and 2024 , my most ever, and am going to shoot for 21,000 again for 2025. Thanks! I know that my many generous donors will dig deep and help me honor the institution that takes such good care of so many including me!

Last year I did the actual 2024 PMC ride for the first time after four years of doing the same miles but on Martha's Vineyard. I wanted to honor the PMC for making the $1 billion mark and my team's 20 years of riding. I was excited but apprehensive and, due to some broken ribs in February that were slow in healing, my training was delayed. A few days before the ride began, I felt a cold coming on and it went downhill from there. Saturday was hot and humid with Billy Starr himself(the founder) saying that it was a very tough day to ride. Sunday was a bit cooler and less humid but my energy reserves were very low. I finished and made the 2 pm fast ferry but I was dragging. I did get a first floor dorm room for the first time ever (Turning 71 the next week must have helped) and had it to myself which was very fortunate as leg cramps plagued me all night. However, it is hard to beat sleeping in my own bed, putting some days between my two long rides and choosing days with cooler temps.  I will be riding on Martha's Vineyard again for 2025.

I had the good fortune to personally benefit from Dana Farber since 2019 when I was treated for two baby cancers, a low grade lymphoma and an unrelated very early stage breast cancer. A targeted chemo with few side effects has suppressed the lymphoma for a few years and a lumpectomy put the breast cancer to bed forever, I hope! It became very clear to me, in a newly personal way, why Dana Farber is such a special place worth supporting!
2025 will be my twenty-seventh year in the PMC and my twentysecond year for neuroblastoma research, fifteenth year as part of TeamBrent (see http://teambrent.com). I also ride in memory of my aunt, Mickey Bigelow and my stepfather, Granger Kenly, and in honor of my many friends and family who are cancer survivors.
I have to admit that I am what is known in the PMC as a lifer, I will be riding as long as I am able and then will volunteer. When I consider what I have been able to raise over the past twenty-seven years (over $229,000) and see the difference those funds have made (Neuroblastoma survival rates have gone from 15% to 50%), I would be foolish to quit.
I am very clear on the difference that Dana Farber makes, the progress that has been made just in the last twenty-seven years, the long road to curing cancer and my commitment to the journey. As the ride approaches, my doubts and misgivings all disappear and the exhileration and inspiration of the ride carry me through to recommitting the next January!
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Thanks for your generous support!
Jody Angevin
67 Chestnut St Dedham, MA 02026
jodyangevin@gmail.com 781-640-4846

The PMC has made what we do at Dana Farber possible. When they write the history about how cancer was conquered, the PMC will be in chapter one.

Edward J. Benz, Jr., MD, Former President and CEO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute