What Pelotonia aspires to be - The Dispatch
Nothing about the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge is small.
Not the signature route of the enduring bicycle tour: 192 miles from Sturbridge to Cape Cod.
Not the number of riders who participate: 5,000 this year (from 36 states and eight countries) and 59,000 since 1980.
And certainly not the money the bike-athon has contributed toward making the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston a world leader in the fight against the disease: $270 mil- lion in 30 years.
"The PMC has made what we do at Dana-Farber possible," said Dr. Edward J. Benz Jr., president of the 62-year-old cancer-research center and hospital.
Which is why the PMC is what central Ohio's budding Pelotonia Tour wants to be when it grows up. more...
Not the signature route of the enduring bicycle tour: 192 miles from Sturbridge to Cape Cod.
Not the number of riders who participate: 5,000 this year (from 36 states and eight countries) and 59,000 since 1980.
And certainly not the money the bike-athon has contributed toward making the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston a world leader in the fight against the disease: $270 mil- lion in 30 years.
"The PMC has made what we do at Dana-Farber possible," said Dr. Edward J. Benz Jr., president of the 62-year-old cancer-research center and hospital.
Which is why the PMC is what central Ohio's budding Pelotonia Tour wants to be when it grows up. more...
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