Please help us all fight against cancer

[ornoth]

As most of you know, each year I participate in the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, a 192-mile bike ride to raise money for cancer research, treatment, and prevention via the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund.

I’d really appreciate if you would consider sponsoring my ride this year. I can’t think of a more important cause than cancer research, treatment, and prevention, and the support I’ve gotten from several of you guys over the years has meant a lot to me.

I’m proud to say that the PMC is the largest athletic fundraiser in the nation. Last year, we raised a record $20 million for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Jimmy Fund, and an amazing 97 cents out of every dollar raised went directly to the charity. New research and treatment methodologies developed at Dana-Farber are constantly in the news, and the Pan-Mass Challenge ride constitutes half of the Jimmy Fund’s annual income.

I’m very proud to help make their work possible, and I want to thank you so much for the support several of you have given me as a rider. In the past four years, I’ve raised over $12,000 for cancer research, and with your help that number will increase to over $15,000 this year.

Whether you’ve sponsored me before or not, I hope to count you among my team this year. If you’d like to contribute, or simply read about past rides or my training, here are the important links:

Make a contribution by credit card:
https://www.pmc.org/egifts/giftinfo.asp?eGiftID=OL0003

My cycling home page, with writeups of my previous Pan-Mass rides, etc:
http://users.rcn.com/ornoth/bicycling/

My PMC profile page and this year’s fundraising to date:
http://www.pmc.org/mypmc/profiles.asp?Section=story&eGiftID=OL0003

Thanks so much. Be well, all!