The Pan Mass Challenge
A great photo taken in Bourne of part of my riding crew (Veronica, Michael, Paul, John, me) This past weekend was the 39th Pan Mass Challenge. The PMC is an annual bicycle charity ride across Massachusetts that is the biggest charity event in the world. This year 6,300 bicyclists and more than 4,000 volunteers are working together to raise more than $52 million dollars for cancer research and treatment at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. The PMC has raised over $500 million since its inception and the money raised has made a huge contribution to the battle against cancer. This was my sixth Pan Mass Challenge. I took last year off for my son's wedding- tough choice actually but I think I did the right thing :). The PMC is always a deeply emotional experience, and even more so for me this year. This Why I Ride poster captures many of the reasons why many of us ride. Doing this ride, I am overwhelmed by how cancer affects so many people- everyone knows A large