Pan Mass Challenge riders were on a high after biking nearly 200 miles across Massachusetts over the weekend.
But Provincetown was not the only finish line. There were several places that riders could end their trek, including Babson College in Wellesley.
Nearly 800 riders wrapped up their quest sunday at Babson College. One of them was 13-year-old Connor McNeil, taking part in his first Pan Mass Challenge with his father, Jon.
“I’ve done the kids PMC for the past three years, but now I decided to step it up and do the 47-mile one,” McNeil said. “Very different.”
These riders either took part a 47-mile loop that started and ended at Babson; or they peddled up from Bourne, Massachusetts after spending the night at Mass. Maritime Academy.
All of them, however, are committed to the same cause — the fight against cancer.
“Our team has a peddle partner — a young pedal partner who’s nine — and he’s doing pretty well, but he’s had many, many surgeries,” Jeanne Cowan said. “We get reminded by Billy Starr, that when this all started, 85-percent of the kids didn’t make it and now 85-percent of the kids do make it.”
This is the third or fourth year NECN reporter John Moroney has covered the finish of the PMC in Wellesley.
“It’s not Provincetown, but it’s still a great place to end the weekend. And none of it would have possible without the help of more than 350 volunteers, who spend the weekend here riders with whatever they need,” Moroney said.
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