Doug Mata's PledgePage
I have begun the long and grueling – but rewarding – process of training for TNT’s annual 100 Mile Century Ride.
On June 6th, 2004, I will be cycling the 100 Mile Century Ride in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The ride is 100 miles long circumnavigating the highways around Lake Tahoe in both Nevada and California. If you think that is not challenging enough, it also includes rolling ascents and descents totaling over 2,600 vertical feet of elevation gain!! In preparation for this “Century Ride,” I will log over 2000 miles. I am cycling for an important cause, though. I have joined the South Florida chapter of Team in Training, an endurance-training program of the LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY, to raise funds to support research for leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood-related illnesses. These diseases will cause the death of more than 60,400 Americans this year. In fact, Leukemia is the leading cause of death in children between the ages of 1 and 15. Every ten minutes, another child or adult dies from leukemia or other related diseases.
Cycling the event is only my physical commitment to this cause. My principal goal is to raise $4,200 to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s mission to battle leukemia and its related diseases. My motivation to train for this event comes from my Honored Teammate’s Tom Martin and Franklin Sklar and in memory of my grandfather Pedro “Pete” Mata, who lost his decade-long battle to non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma on April 7th, 2001.
On June 6th, 2004, I will be cycling the 100 Mile Century Ride in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The ride is 100 miles long circumnavigating the highways around Lake Tahoe in both Nevada and California. If you think that is not challenging enough, it also includes rolling ascents and descents totaling over 2,600 vertical feet of elevation gain!! In preparation for this “Century Ride,” I will log over 2000 miles. I am cycling for an important cause, though. I have joined the South Florida chapter of Team in Training, an endurance-training program of the LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY, to raise funds to support research for leukemia, lymphoma, and other blood-related illnesses. These diseases will cause the death of more than 60,400 Americans this year. In fact, Leukemia is the leading cause of death in children between the ages of 1 and 15. Every ten minutes, another child or adult dies from leukemia or other related diseases.
Cycling the event is only my physical commitment to this cause. My principal goal is to raise $4,200 to support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s mission to battle leukemia and its related diseases. My motivation to train for this event comes from my Honored Teammate’s Tom Martin and Franklin Sklar and in memory of my grandfather Pedro “Pete” Mata, who lost his decade-long battle to non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma on April 7th, 2001.