It’s that time of the year again! Lester and I are actively training to ride in the PMC which will be held on August 2-3, 2025! We have committed to ride 85 miles on Saturday, August 2nd from Babson College in Wellesley to Mass Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay! This year, we joined Team Fear Nothing so all the money that we raise will go to Dr. Kimmie Ng, for her colorectal research and we will be riding alongside Lester’s caregivers!

Last year, we tried to ride 85 miles on an extremely hot and humid day! I ended up in the medical tent with heat exhaustion after the first leg. I sat out the second leg of the ride and resumed the ride after that. I set Lester up for his visit to the medical tent as he rode with the young dudes (we are the same age as some as their parents!). They rode at 18-20 miles an hour which is faster than my 14 miles/hour so he ended up with leg cramps. Lesson learned, ride the PMC the same way you train. 

Some fun facts about DF. Dana Farber has been recognized as one of the top three cancer centers in the world! One in four new FDA-approved cancer drugs in the last 10 years were influenced by Dana-Farber researchers. Fifty-one biotech start-ups were launched using Dana-Farber intellectual property. Lastly, twenty-two novel cancer drugs developed at Dana-Farber have been added to the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines. So donating to our PMC can result in chemotherapy that is administered at your local cancer center!

Any gift, large or small, goes a long way to help fund DF ongoing research to eradicate cancer and remember every dollar raised goes directly to Dana-Farber.

Finally, we love to ride in honor of you or your loved ones who have battled or are battling cancer. We write the names of our loved ones and friends on ribbons on our bike helmets that stream behind us when we ride the PMC. Last year we rode with 100 individuals. So please let us know if you have a name to add to our ribbons. The more the merrier when we are closer by the mile to a cure!

Thank you for considering this request for supporting our PMC ride this year!