Archive for the ‘Pan-Mass Challenge’ Category
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
UPDATE: I am officially signed up for the 2012 Pan-Mass Challenge: to sponsor my ride (and make these graphs prettier next year), please go to http://bit.ly/pmcdoug to donate. Thanks!
Last year, after riding in my third Pan-Mass Challenge (an annual two-day bicycle ride/cancer fundraiser), I thought I had enough of a track ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Two short weeks ago, I finished my fourth Pan-Mass Challenge. As always it is a great, well-run event, a 2-day ride to Provincetown to raise money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (you can still sponsor my ride here: http://bit.ly/2011pmc).
What was special about this year?
The last year was a tough ...
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Friday, July 8th, 2011
Thanks to you, I have reached my initial fundraising goal of $6,400- five weeks before the Pan-Mass Challenge! The generosity from sponsors, both returning friends and new ones, has been amazing. I thought I would get a screen capture of the gauge from my fundraising page. It is a great feeling to ...
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
It has been a while since I have blogged about my Pan-Mass Challenge efforts, but that has not been for lack of activity. It's hard to believe it, but the PMC is less than two months away (August 6-7), and I am starting to feel a sense of urgency about ...
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Last Saturday (May 21), we said goodbye to my father, Kenneth Haslam, who passed away May 14 after fighting cancer for a year. My brothers and I eulogized him, as did several people in the congregation who spoke extemporaneously. A great tribute to a man I already miss. I would ...
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Sunday, April 17th, 2011
April is a tough month for getting ready for my annual ride in the Pan Mass Challenge (this will be my 4th), but it is also a great month. Tough, because the weather and sunlight hours make it difficult to get out as much as I would like (I'm not one ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
It's official; I have signed up to ride the 2011 Pan Mass Challenge, a two-day ride to benefit the Dan Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. This will be my 4th year riding. In the past I have simply stated I like to ride and this is a good cause. I ...
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Monday, October 25th, 2010
For the last three years, I have raised money for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston as one of 5,000 riders in the Pan-Mass Challenge. Due to the fact that many people in my city (Newton, MA) also ride the PMC, and the fact that I do a lot ...
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
As I do every year, I took some rider's eye video of my Pan-Mass Challenge ride, and include my excerpts below.
Day 1 took me from Newton, MA to the Wellesley start, and down to the Mass Maritime Academy at Bourne. Day 2 took us from Bourne, MA (and a ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Yesterday (Aug 8), I finished my third Pan-Mass Challenge, riding 170 miles in 2 days, and raising money (thanks to many of you) to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
This event means a lot to me, not only because I love cycling and it was a great way to get to a ...
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