Owen Dempsey's Ride
Why I Ride ...
Dear friends, colleagues and supporters of our ride,
Well we did it again & this is why I ride. The 2011 PMC was a great weekend - Saturday was a perfect day for riding, with overcast skies & not too hot. We clipped in and pushed off at 7:00AM, hit the lunch stop just after 10:00 and cruised the rest of the way to the Mass Maritime Academy in Bourne. Sunday we had more of a push - up at 4am, the usual 5am start(!) wet roads and rain threatening all day. It held off and we reached Provincetown at 10:40am in fine form where we enjoyed clam chowder and other goodies but skipped the usual post ride dip in the ocean. The rain which had held off until then proceeded in the afternoon to visit us with a will, making for a drenching scene at embarkation & a storm tossed and thrilling transit back to Boston harbor aboard the 4pm high speed ferry!
Well we did it again & this is why I ride. The 2011 PMC was a great weekend - Saturday was a perfect day for riding, with overcast skies & not too hot. We clipped in and pushed off at 7:00AM, hit the lunch stop just after 10:00 and cruised the rest of the way to the Mass Maritime Academy in Bourne. Sunday we had more of a push - up at 4am, the usual 5am start(!) wet roads and rain threatening all day. It held off and we reached Provincetown at 10:40am in fine form where we enjoyed clam chowder and other goodies but skipped the usual post ride dip in the ocean. The rain which had held off until then proceeded in the afternoon to visit us with a will, making for a drenching scene at embarkation & a storm tossed and thrilling transit back to Boston harbor aboard the 4pm high speed ferry!
The annual experience of this amazing, first-weekend-in-August, two-day, 192 mile event, the PMC, has become for me a time when I hope for insight and find inspiration. Each year I have ridden, the journey has entailed
The 2011 PMC was no exception. We enjoyed the beautiful roads, fields and marsh scenery of southeast Massachusetts and Cape Cod. We surprised ourselves as the miles rolled by - lunch stop already?! We struggled up hills as Sunday's miles started to take their toll. We pushed through strong headwinds along the last 4 miles on the twisting hills as we snaked over Provincetown dunes and over the finish line at the Provincetown Inn. And along the way, I listened to stories from fellow riders, cancer survivors, family members. I was moved by the hundreds of families out cheering us on... or holding a simple sign that read 'Thank you'. I was once again humbled and inspired.
The PMC is the single largest fundraiser for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the largest volunteer fundraiser of its kind in America. The PMC helps Dana-Farber to pursue its mission in incredible ways, ways that benefit people far beyond the walls of the institute and the city of Boston.
- Appreciation for my family, friends and fellow riders
- Joining with 5,200 fellow riders to fight cancer
- The inspiration to keep pushing boundaries
The 2011 PMC was no exception. We enjoyed the beautiful roads, fields and marsh scenery of southeast Massachusetts and Cape Cod. We surprised ourselves as the miles rolled by - lunch stop already?! We struggled up hills as Sunday's miles started to take their toll. We pushed through strong headwinds along the last 4 miles on the twisting hills as we snaked over Provincetown dunes and over the finish line at the Provincetown Inn. And along the way, I listened to stories from fellow riders, cancer survivors, family members. I was moved by the hundreds of families out cheering us on... or holding a simple sign that read 'Thank you'. I was once again humbled and inspired.
The PMC is the single largest fundraiser for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the largest volunteer fundraiser of its kind in America. The PMC helps Dana-Farber to pursue its mission in incredible ways, ways that benefit people far beyond the walls of the institute and the city of Boston.
PMC riders share above all two things - we love to ride & we hate cancer. Mile by mile, I feel we are getting one step closer to the cure.
Thank you so much for your support.
Sincerely,
Owen
Owen
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