The first weekend in August marks the 9th year I will ride 168 miles from Wellesley to Provincetown with the Pan Mass Challenge. With the help of so many family and friends over the years I will have raised over $50,000.00 to support research and patient care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The PMC has become an event I eagerly look forward to each summer for where else can you find over 6,000 people who come together as a “community” for forty-eight hours to raise close to $50 million each year for something as critically important as cancer research, and then disperse! It’s a real phenomenon. It’s exciting, great exercise,i exhausting and great fun.

This year will be especially meaningful as in my thoughts I will be riding for two people: one of my very closest friends, John, who continues to fight prostate cancer, and for my brother Richard who passed away two years ago from gleo blastforma brain cancer.

Dana Farber is known world-wide for not only the depth of its research but also for the care and treatment of its patients. We are fortunate to have it located in Boston.

Whether you will be a first-time donor or one who has ridden with me for the past four years, I sincerely hope you will support my ride this year with as generous a contribution as you can make to help me reach my goal. Your support means so much to me personally and especially to the people who will benefit by 100% of every dollar you contribute. Thank you.

Steve