Ornoth rides again...

[ornoth]

With August approaching, it’s once again time to solicit donations for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. I’d appreciate if you’d consider

It’s once again that time of year when I chase down all my old friends and ask them to contribute to the Jimmy Fund to support my annual Pan-Mass Challenge ride.

Although last year’s ride ended in a frustrating crash, it was still very satisfying, because I raised a personal record of over $3500 to support cancer research, treatment, and prevention at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

About two weeks ago I met one of my two goals: riding over 10,000 total miles within four years. My other goal is—with your help—to match those 10,000 miles by surpassing $10,000 of lifetime fundraising for DFCI.

While this will be my fourth Pan-Mass ride, this will also be the PMC’s 25th anniversary, and over that time the PMC has contributed over $100 million to the Jimmy Fund. This year’s fundraising goal is $17 million.

The PMC is by far the largest athletic fundraiser in the nation. This one event is the Jimmy Fund’s single largest contributor, and generates 45 percent of the Jimmy Fund’s revenue each year.

I take a great deal of satisfaction in raising so much money to fight cancer, and I hope you’ll be able to help me out this year.

Remember that donations are tax-deductable, and if your employer has a matching gift program, please make use of that benefit.

While cancer is a stubborn and virulant family of diseases, real demonstrable progress is being made every day at cancer centers like Dana-Farber. I’m dedicated to supporting their research, and I’m honored by the contributions I have received.

My main PMC page is at:

http://users.rcn.com/ornoth/pmc
 

Or you can make donations by going directly to my eGifts Page:

https://www.pmc.org/egifts/makeadonation.asp?egiftID=OL0003
 

The Pan-Mass Challenge home page is at:

http://www.pmc.org/
 

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is at:

http://www.dfci.harvard.edu/
 

The Jimmy Fund is at:

http://www.jimmyfund.org/
 

My cycling page is at:

http://users.rcn.com/ornoth/bicycling/
 

And you can read my training log at:

ornoth_cycling

Comments

[mybikeandi.livejournal.com]

Hey, I see I'm not the only one on LJ doing this thing :). Though you appear to be in better shape, and you've done it before...Which ride are you doing? I'm doing the Wellesley-Bourne, aka "please let me do the shortest ride because I'm sort of a wuss" one. Anyway. Hi!

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the note! This will be my fourth year, and I'm doing the Sturbridge to P'town route. Hopefully this time I can complete it (for the second time), 'cos last year I crashed out in Barnstable.

I do think it's kind of strange that there is no PMC community on LJ. seems kind of odd to me. Mebbe someday...

Good to have you aboard for the ride! I always find the fundraising challenging, but the ride's pure fun (sometimes so much fun it hurts). I rode Wellesley to Wellesley my first year, and the ride down isn't bad at all (the ride back is quite challenging). There's probably a lengthy description of it on my cycling Web page, which is linked somewhere above.

All for now. Gotta run and pack for a trip. But thanks for the note, and good luck on the ride!!!

[mybikeandi.livejournal.com]

Well, we're the only two people who list it as an interest, which makes a community hard...There is a bostoncycling community, though.

wow, Sturbridge to Provincetown...Good luck not crashing!