Team MZ is once again riding in memory of my mom, Mary Zimolong. She’d be turning 83 on June 21, but because of cancer, I’ve lived the past 18 years without her.
She didn’t get to meet my husband, my step kids, or my son.

My husband has cancer and has since before I met him. To this day, he has to have experimental maintenance treatments to (hopefully) keep it away. If not for this experimental regimen, I’d be a widow.

My father had prostate cancer, my grandfather had colon cancer. My friend lost his daughter at the age of 4 to leukemia. My friend lost her mom to breast cancer 9 months after I lost my mom. She lost her brother recently too, who was a second brother to me and father to another good friend’s boys. My uncle passed away from lung cancer. My friend lost her husband to brain cancer. My friend lost her husband to lymphoma. The list could go on and on. The sad thing is, your list might be just as long and this needs to STOP !

Cancer sucks, so I will keep riding and raising funds to help find a cure. My first ride was in 2006 (pictured above). This was 4 months after I buried my mom. I missed one because I was pregnant and one because of COVID. I will continue to ride to raise money for cancer research as long as I can.

Please help me raise critically needed funds to support the thousands of patients who turn to Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center for hope each year. Your donation provides funding researchers need right now to investigate new treatment options that could save lives. For every dollar donated, Roswell Park can leverage an additional $13 in new grant funding!

Please consider donating today. Together, we can end cancer!