Cyclists To Ride Tri-State Trek in Honor of Late Greenwich Police Sergeant

Team Greenwich Police will ride in the Tri-State Trek to raise money and awareness to battle ALS , also known as Lou Gehrig disease.

The 24-member team will be cycling about 100 miles a day for three days.
Team Greenwich Police rides in honor of their late colleague, Sgt. Roger Petrone, who died from ALS last year.

Petrone served 18 years with the Greenwich Police Department and passed away at the age of 44 after a seven-year battle with the disease.

The Trek begins in Boston on Friday, June 26, and makes its way through Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut ending in Greenwich on June 28.

The team will regroup at the “Roger Petrone Rest Stop” which is the intersection of John Street and Riversville Road at 2 p.m. Sunday. Until his death last year, Petrone would greet the bikers at the intersection before they finished the last leg of the ride.

For the last leg of the ride, the 300-plus bikers will be led by Petrone’s 12-year-old daughter Sydney. The bikers will head down Greenwich Avenue and cross the finish line arriving at 3:10 p.m. in Roger Sherman Baldwin Park on Arch Street.

Photos courtesy of Greenwich Police. The riders and Greenwich Lt. Richard Cochran head of Team Greenwich Police with Sydney Petrone.