#WhyIPMC guest blog by Andy Macdonald, 26-year Team BELIEVE rider
This year will be my 26th in a row riding for the PMC. Our families have been routed by cancer. My wife's mother valiantly battled and survived breast cancer. My Father lost his life in his 3rd bout with colon cancer. My step-mother lost her life to multiple myeloma. My best friend and work-mate Ken Glansberg - a many-year PMC Volunteer - lost his life to multiple myeloma. We cannot simply throw up our arms and do nothing. We will never accept defeat! 
My annual PMC rides have become a way of life for me. Riding the PMC is hard, yet when you experience the crowds who encourage you all along the way, when you see the signs held by children that say our efforts have helped them survive another year, when you ascend the hill to the Lakeville Water Stop and see all the posters that line the side of the road showing all the children currently battling to survive, when you work along-side the countless incredible volunteers, many of whom are battling while they work, who put in incredible hours to feed us, keep us hydrated, protect us and help us you will experience as I do why the PMC is tattooed on my soul.
Our tiny 3-person 'Team Believe' is small but we ride with HUGE HEARTS and INDELIBLE FORCE! We ride for those gone before us. We ride for those currently battling. We ride for those who have beaten cancer. The PMC provides a way for all of us to work and fight together to ultimately make cancer an awful distant memory! 