"Thanks for your support. Your pledge helps keep me motivated and it's for a great cause. As a primary care physician, I take care of so many brave people with cancer. I am so impressed with the way they - and their friends and families - embrace life, and live that life to the fullest. It is an inspiration to me. I ride in all of their honor. I also ride for those in my family struggling with it now, including my aunt Antoinette, and in memory of those who succumbed - my grandmother Gertrude, my cousin Francois, my sister-in-law Lynne, my parents-in-law Henry and Rose - and many others."