Thursday, September 26, 2013

The Last Leg of the Relay

In some ways, the Pan Mass Challenge is more like a relay race than a bike ride

Rider registration opens in January. We pick up the baton for another year and begin training and fundraising.

Through the spring and into summer, we carry that baton, putting in the miles and inviting others to participate. Some donate, some volunteer, some join the ride. Some send good wishes. A (very) few ask to be dropped from the mailing list.

Then, on the first Friday of August, we pick up our rider jerseys and numbers. More batons!

The 3,000 volunteers pick up volunteer t-shirts (their batons) and head out to their work stations - bike maintenance, burger flipping, traffic control, dorm assistance. We could not do the ride without them. God bless them.

By Sunday afternoon the ride is over. We wash and hang up our PMC jerseys to be worn later. (At our fundraising event in June, we hung my 15 jerseys from the rafters of the hall!)

You are part of this relay race.

I need your baton, your generous donation to the PMC, to the Dana Farber, to the fight against cancer.

Without you, the PMC would be just another bike ride and we would not be making progess in the war on cancer.

The last leg of this year's relay race, the fundraising, closes in a few short days on October 1st. Help us reach our goal of raising $38 million (and my personal goal of raising $10,000) to fund the war on cancer!

Please donate now.

Thank you for your support!

With love,

Lee
http://www2.pmc.org/profile/LL0033

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