Thank you. To everyone who donated, cheered, texted, and asked how it went — this ride belongs to you as much as to us.
We rolled out of Newton at 5:30 Saturday morning and rode the 4.5 miles to the Wellesley start rather than get dropped off. Day 1 is officially 86 miles to Bourne — with the ride to the start, we were 9.5 short of a century. So just after crossing the finish line we headed back out along the Cape Cod Canal to pick them up, then checked in at Mass Maritime Academy for the night with 100 miles on the Garmin.
Day 2 started at 4am, waking up on mats in the Mass Maritime Academy library, and we were climbing over the Bourne Bridge by 5:30 as the sun came up. Grandparents Joe and Ginny met us at the first rest stop at 7am. One mile from the finish in Provincetown, we pulled over to group up with 100+ FLAMES riders and rolled in two-by-two, led by the team's Living Proof members — teammates who have faced cancer themselves. That's the video below. Then the ferry home across the bay.
The weekend
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Team FLAMES
We ride with the Dana-Farber FLAMES — the team whose fundraising goes to lymphoma and leukemia research, and whose jerseys carry the names of the people we ride for. This is the crew at the Harvard ride on July 11, a few weeks before the start line.
Fly the route
This is the actual 174-mile route we rode, straight from the GPS data — Wellesley to Bourne on Saturday, Bourne to Provincetown on Sunday. It starts when it scrolls into view.
PMC 2026, by the numbers
The PMC is the largest single-event athletic fundraiser in the country — and 100% of every rider-raised dollar goes directly to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute via the Jimmy Fund.
What it takes to feed the weekend
One thing we marvel at every year is the logistics — a once-a-year event, run almost entirely by volunteers, that feeds and moves thousands of people without missing a beat. Feeding the riders and volunteers alone takes:
- 🍫 25,000 bars, gels, and chews from GU, AMG, and That’s It
- 🥜 1,700 pounds of Teddie Peanut Butter
- 🍞 12,000 snacks from Dave’s Killer Bread and Simple Mills
- 🥔 24,000 bags of Cape Cod Potato Chips
- 🍌 100 cases of bananas from Yell-O-Glow
- 🌭 8,600 burgers from Prime Burger and City Line Food Service
- 🧆 600 pounds of Cedar’s Mediterranean Foods hummus and tabouli
- 💦 30,000 servings of DripDrop ORS
- 🍻 70 kegs & 900 cases of Samuel Adams beer and nonalcoholic beer
- 🥬 700 pounds of Little Leaf Farms greens
- 🥙 31,000 pounds of Hans Kissle salads — lobster, tuna, chicken, and tortellini
- 💧 3,600 cases of water from Polar Beverages, Smartwater, and Stop & Shop
- 🍦 11,000 servings of ice cream, popsicles, and frozen lemonade from HP Hood, Jonny Pops, and M&T
- 🍪 30,000 cookies and brownies from Superior on Main, Bake’n Joy, and Dimitria Delights
- 🍉 And much more.
Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen sent this message to the PMC 2026 kickoff — an acoustic “Born to Run” for the riders. His wife, Patti Scialfa, has been treated for multiple myeloma at Dana-Farber for the past eight years.
Thank you
That's a wrap on PMC 2026. Between the two of us, and because of you, Team Prior sent a meaningful sum to Dana-Farber this year — as FLAMES riders, ours funds lymphoma and leukemia research. Every dollar of it goes straight to the Institute.
Team Prior, 2026
$12,200 raised on Jack’s ride, plus Kayla’s — thank you.
PMC 2026 fundraising closes October 1. Our ride pages stay open until then for anyone who meant to give and had the summer get away from them, but please don't feel you have to — you've already done plenty.
Come back after October 1. That's when we start on PMC 2027, and we'd love to have you along for the ride again.