Bill Nickerson's Ride

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Why I Ride ...

Why I Ride ...
YEAR 7...can you believe this will be my 7th year riding in the PMC???  It comes with great reward as I am building friendships and raising money for a worthy cause…cancer research.  It also comes with great heart ache.  This past year, a dear little girl named Charlotte lost her fight with cancer.  Charlotte was only 6 years and fought a long hard 4 year battle.  Charlotte had an aggressive brain tumor known as atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT). Despite treatment after treatment, trips into Boston on a daily basis, experimental medicine and everything some of the best doctors in the world could do for her; it was just not enough.  While enduring all of this, Charlotte taught us all how to live and to enjoy life to the fullest.  She never stopped being a kid!!!  My thoughts and prayers will always be with this special little girl who touched so many of lives.  

 

This year, we are honored to have Charlotte’s mom, Janet, ride with our team.  We will have over 50 members riding in this year’s PMC.  And at the end, we will have raised over 1 Million Dollars as a team since we began riding.  Most of our team will be directing the funds that we raise to AT/RT to help those children that suffer from this rare disease.  And we will not stop riding until there is a cure.

 

The Pan Mass Challenge is exactly that….a challenge.   Anyone that knows me knows that I am not built like Lance Armstrong. But I knew in my heart that I could do something like this especially for a great cause. I train for several months to be in shape to ride the 190 miles from Sturbridge to Provincetown…riding to work a few days and taking long rides on the weekends. But there is something that I can never train for…the arrival day in Sturbridge…and the things I see like the opening ceremony, the stories of cancer survivors, the families involved and especially the Kids.

 

As I ride along the 190 mile route, I see families lined up on every street holding up signs thanking me.  Never in my wildest dreams did I expect this; to be thanked for riding for them.  They stand there holding signs, playing music and yelling to cheer me and my teammates on…it is such a motivating emotional sight to behold.  A sight that makes me tear up just thinking about it.  I know that my feelings are nothing compared to what these kids and families experience as they go through treatments.  It is for them that I ride.  I am officially a Pan Mass rider for LIFE!      

 

I need your help to aid in the continued research for finding a cure for this deadly disease.  

Will you help me raise money for this fight? 

HELP ME RAISE MONEY TO FIGHT CANCER!!!!!

 

 

*Click on the links to the left called Charlotte's Story.  It is an amazing journey of Charlotte and her family.

 

 

 

 



Bill's PMC Total

$0

Goal

$10,000

My Progress

My Rides

2012 $0 Sturbridge to Provincetown Inn (2-Day)
2011 $4,750 Sturbridge to Provincetown Inn (2-Day)
2010 $6,350 Sturbridge to Provincetown Inn (2-Day)
2009 $4,200 Sturbridge to Provincetown Inn (2-Day)
2008 $4,042.5 Sturbridge to Provincetown Inn (2-Day)
2007 $3,600 Sturbridge to Provincetown Inn (2-Day)
2006 $3,300 Sturbridge to Provincetown Inn (2-Day)
2005 $3,000 Sturbridge to Provincetown Inn (2-Day)
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