Team Kermit's Ride

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Why We Ride and Who We Are...

Team Kermit rides the PMC in honor and memory of all of the people whom our teammates hold dear. What brings us together as a team is friendship and the common bond of honoring and remembering our dear son, brother and friend Jared. Team Kermit was formed in 2005 by Ellen, Adam, Jared, myself, and our friends while Jared was undergoing treatment at the Jimmy Fund. Adam, the team, and I rode while Ellen and Jared volunteered, Jared doing bicycle repairs from a wheelchair. The team is named for Kermit the Frog of Sesame Street fame. Kermit was one of Jared's favorite childhood characters and represents the ability that people have to rise above the ordinary in order to achieve great results. Kermit's theme "It's not easy being green" became Jared's mantra and helped him endure and even laugh through the often grueling treatments. Jared was the epitome of determination, resolve, dedication, bravery, and passion. Kermit inspired Jared and reminded him and all of us that we are limited only by our own dreams and desires. In September 2005, after our second PMC, Jared passed away after a 2 1/2 year battle with the disease. He was 23 years old. In 2006 we established the Jared Branfman Sunflowers For Life Fund For Pediatric Brain And Spinal Cancer Research at the Jimmy Fund. All the money raised by Team Kermit goes through the PMC and into our fund. It supports research into the type of disease that Jared had and is helping to make the dream of "no more cancer" a reality. It is a fitting legacy to Jared's wish to help others. 

 We are men and women, young and old spanning six decades, and hail from California, Washington State, Texas, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and the United Kingdom.  Some of our teammates are brand new to cycling and the PMC while others are well seasoned cyclists and PMC veterans. Three pairs of Kermit's are father-son duos, one mother-son, and one is a father-daughter team. Many of us are cancer survivors ourselves and at this moment in time one of us is undergoing treatment and still planning on riding the PMC.  We ride not only remembering and inspired by Jared and in honor of our young pedal partner Declan Rourke, but each for their loved ones and friends who have been stricken by the devastating effects of cancer. The photo is part of our 2008 Team Kermit at the Barnstable water stop. We will be on the road from Sturbridge to Provincetown on August 6 and 7 and hope that you'll be there with us helping to fulfill Jared's hope and his legacy...........to rid the world of this terrible disease so that your children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren never have to hear the word cancer again. 

 best wishes and love to all, 
 For Team Kermit
Steven, Ellen, and Adam Branfman


Team's PMC Total

$4,004.2

Goal

$290,000

My Progress

My Online Supporters

I have chosen to keep all of my donors' information confidential; therefore it is not displayed on my PMC public donor list.

My Rides

2012 $4,004.2
2011 $314,596.3
2010 $257,107.32
2009 $176,874.63
2008 $185,525.01
2007 $141,421.18
2006 $104,642.97
2005 $20,522.6
Team's Personal Gallery