In 2011 I relented. I bought a road bike and decided to pull the trigger and sign up for the Trek. A slew of miles, a mess of pickles, too many shock blocks, 3 years of pandemic and here are. A dozen years of invovlement. Please join me as I ride 100 miles during this July within Mass to support the ALSTDI in their mission to find an effective treatment for ALS - or Lou Gehrig's Disease - because of our friend Steve Saling who was diagnosed with ALS in 2006.A few facts about ALS/ALSTDI:Every 90 minutes someone is diagnosed with ALS in the US86% of each dollar raised is put directly in to TDI’s research effortsEach drug therapy study can cost $250,000, we keep 30+ ongoing drug studiesIt can take a year or longer to diagnose ALSAt least 450,000 people are living with ALS worldwideALS shows no prejudice. It effects people of all ages, race and ethnicities

In a few weeks I will be riding for my sixteenth year with the TriState Trek. Things have changed once again with the TST. Instead of riding from Boston to NY, we will be doing loops in Durham, NH. We will still get in three different states, but it’ll be Mass, Maine and NH this time!In 2014 we lost a good friend, Dean Allison, to ALS. I will once again be riding his bicycle on the Trek, and I’ll carry his memory with me this year and every year until we can stop this disease!ALS has also touched my family directly. A close family member was diagnosed with ALS last year and is fighting as hard as she can. After 16 years, I have heard many new diagnoses, but to have it hit my family makes it even MORE personal than it already was.ALS/TDI has made great strides in finding drugs and treatments to fight this terrible disease. ALS/TDI was the first nonprofit biotech in any disease to develop a potential treatment, AT-1501, and bring it from their own labs, through FDA review and into clinical trial. Please donate what you can to help ALS/TDI raise funds to continue with their current trials to hopefully help the people living with ALS now and eventually eradicate this disease so we never have to hear of another ALS diagnosis. 

I ride my butt off to raise money so that we can find a cure for ALS.

Working to End ALS by supporting ALS research at ALS TDI. Please support my efforts - 3rd year!