Friday, March 23, 2007

Pan Mass Challenge: Team T-Made

A very good friend of mine from college (some might even say she is my ex-girlfriend) has recently been diagnosesd with cancer. Some of her friends up in Massachusettes have decided to ride in the Pan Mass Challenge (www.pmc.org) in an effort to support her struggles and raise money to help find a cure.

Here is the email from Mike:

For those of you that don't know about the PMC it is a bike-a-thon and fund raiser for Dana-Farber/ Jimmy Fund. Last year over 27 million dollars was raised, and 99 cents of every dollar goes directly to the Jimmy Fund. This year the are expecting close to 5,000 riders. The main route starts in Sturbridge August 4th and ends 192 miles away in Provincetown the next day.

Cheri and I signed up to late so we are only going to be riding a one day 50 mile route.

Cheri and I are riding under the team acronym T-MADE (PRONOUNCED TEAM AID).

We are riding for Tracy, and in
Memory of my uncle
Artie, and Cheri's uncle
Dave and
Everyone else whose life has been or will be affected by this illness.

If everyone could just donate $20 dollars T-MADE would be well on its way to their goal. It would be great if you could donate $1 dollar a mile but any amount will be appreciated.

If you care to donate you can click on the link below:

http://www.pmc.org/mypmc/profiles.asp?eGiftID=TT0100

Click on the upper lift or lower right of the page, where it says make an e-gift and follow the directions and enter your credit card info.

Or you could send me cash or a check made out to PMC-Jimmy Fund.

all donations are tax deductible.

Thanks for your time and I am sorry if I'm babbling, I've never done this before.

If you prefer to mail a check, instead of donating online, then please let me know in the comments section and we can find a way to get you an address to mail the check.

2 comments:

Tisha! said...

important cause! good of you and Cheri to join in, ride on!

Jeff Herz said...

Tisha,

Thanks for the comment.

I wish I could say I was riding, I am (way) too out of shape for this kind of commitment, but I am going to use this as incentive to ride more this summer.

The thanks goes to Mike Flynn for putting this together. I am just his mouthpiece. I hope you can add a little support on their behalf.