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The first seven days of July had five rides, for a total of 259.87 miles and an average speed of 19.06 miles per hour.
The PMC starts in just four weeks. 100 *hilly* miles on Friday (August 5), 112 miles on Saturday, and 80 miles on Sunday. All to raise money for cancer research. I'm working really hard to make sure my body is ready for that weekend.
I still need sponsors!
Would you please think about that for a second before you move on? Did you ever love someone with cancer? A friend, a grandparent, a brother or sister, your mom or dad, your wife or husband, your son or your daughter?
DFCI, which is the ultimate destination of about 95% of the money we raise through the PMC, is consistently rated as one of the best, most effective, most progressive, and most important facitlities for the care, treatment and research of cancer. In the world.
We're not messing around. This isn't a joke, or a scam. It wouldn't just be "nice" if more people would donate. It's essential. The PMC is trying to raise $21,000,000 this year! That's a huge number. I'm just trying for $6,000. Please, stop "wishing me the best of luck." The world is full of well-wishers. Go make a donation! That's *your* Pan-Mass Challenge.
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Sometimes, the right words, heard or seen at the right moment, can make all the difference. If you say the right thing at the wrong time, your words will fall on deaf ears. Saying the wrong thing at any time, of course, is fruitless.
Last week's PMC update seems to have been the right words at the right time, at least for some people. I'm still a long way from my goal, but at least I don't feel quite as desperate as I did.
Look at what Apollo Lee wrote in his weblog today:
In order to give back to the community and support an extremely important organization that helps lots of people, I have decided to sponsor Seth Dillingham in his goal to ride in the Pan-Mass Challenge to raise money for cancer research.
Lots of people wish him well, but I decided that it would be a good thing to contribute ten cents to his goal. For every mile on my chart. I have 4022.98 miles on my chart.
Whoo! Yay Apollo! Thank you!
If I'm really lucky, his words will produce similar results with at least one more person. To be honest, I'm not counting on it: all (well, almost all) of my sponsors are people who know me or Corinne. I can only think of two sponsors (in three years) beyond that first degree of separation: one of Duncan Smeed's former students, and the mother of a friend/former-employee/cancer-survivor.
Anyway, now I'm trying to talk Apollo into riding in the PMC next year! He's from CA, but last year there were a bunch of riders from CA, so the idea isn't as crazy as it sounds.
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On 7/11/05, Steve Davis - Office said:
>Seth, be careful what you wish for. Many of my largest sponsors in >the past, are now riding. It's good for the PMC, but bad for my >personal fundraising...
I hear you. But, Apollo is a new sponsor, and helping out the PMC/Jimmy Fund/DFCI is the real point, after all. Right?
Of course, I have no idea if he has any interest in riding the PMC, yet. This whole discussion could be moot.
Seth
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I have never donated to help someone ride in a bicycling event, because I don't know anybody, personally, that rides in any such events. I've always wanted to do the AIDS ride, but circumstances always spank my buttocks somehow. Some of my friends over here have expressed surprise that I don't and I've expressed larger measures of surprise when they indicate they'd have been willing to donate.
I should really start riding in some of these things. I've never been on a group ride with more than four other people before. Much less the thousands you guys ride with on your rides.
I'm glad I could help out. I hope other people step up and cough up some scratch too. Cancer research breakthroughs don't just fall out of trees every day. They require time, money, and patience.
Have a good ride and post someone ahead on the route with a digital camera to snap you hammering in action. Or spinning.
Apollo Lee
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