This is my 26th year participating in the Pan-Mass Challenge, and my 10th year pedaling to fund a cure for cancer. I am a team captain for Team Sunflower.

I ride & volunteer to honor of those who are fighting, of those who can say they are living proof. I ride & volunteer in memory of those who we have lost, especially my mom, Deborah Barrett, who lost her battle with cancer ten years ago.
A beautiful, loving, courageous woman - my mother's battle began 13 years earlier when she was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. The life saving treatments that she received were developed at Dana Farber and released only two years before her diagnosis. I am so thankful every day for the commitment to funding research that gave my mom 13 more years with us.
In 2006 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. We were confident that the surgeries and treatments would cure her. On October 30, 2008, they told us that mom's cancer had metastasized to other organs . She lost her battle with cancer on January 8, 2009.

This year I will be volunteering in Sturbridge on Friday, and riding from Sturbridge to Provincetown on Aug 3-4. I ride in memory of my Mom, as well as my Uncle Rick and Cousin Michael who also lost battles to this disease. I ride in honor of my sister-in-law’s mom, Tammy, as a survivor.
This year my fundraising goal is $10,000. $1,000 for every year my mom has been gone.

Please support my efforts by FUNDING a cure for cancer, and I will commit to logging the miles on my bike!

Thank you.
Jennifer Barrett Kady
Please take a look at my team's profile here: http://www2.pmc.org/profile/TD0110