Upcoming Charity Rides

Click on the links below to learn more or donate.  All donations are tax-deductible.

Harbor to the Bay:  September 15, 125 miles, fundraising minimum: $1000.  Money for this ride goes to support four local AIDS organizations.  These groups saw their funding slashed last year--paradoxically, because they were too effective.  The federal government decided to shift the funds to states that weren't doing as well.  So they need your help more than ever.

H2B is one of my favorite rides; it's the longest one-day route I do (though next year I will try a triple-K) and has the best volunteers, including an all-female biker group called the Moving Violations who ride around on their Harleys, directing traffic and just generally looking menacing.

The Dempsey Challenge:  October 14, 100 miles, fundraising minimum: $150.  This will be my third year doing Dempsey, which raises millions for the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Care and Healing in Maine.  It takes place over 100 hilly miles starting and ending in Lewiston, involving more climbing than almost any ride I've done (Tahoe was more).  It's a great ride that hundreds of spectators come out to support.

My 2012 Charity Season

Due to a new job and various other occurrences, I've had a somewhat abbreviated charity season.  In June I did the two-day, 183-mile MS ride from Boston to Provincetown.  It rained the first day and I forgot my jacket, so I did the first chunk of the ride wearing a giant trash bag.  I was proud to have done a sub-six-hour century and to have helped Bike MS raise over $2 million.  In July I did Seacoast Safari, to benefit cystic fibrosis research.  This was my fourth time doing this ride and I was actually on the planning board this year.  Vertex has developed a drug that essentially makes the disease chronic instead of fatal for a small portion of the CF population, and it's exciting to be able to support that kind of progress in some small way.  At the end of the July I did the Mass Bike Summer Century--and bonked, hard.  But hey, it happens to the best of us.