Paul Brindamour
- National: 403rd
- State: 3rd in CT
I'm Riding For
Liliana, my forever inspiration these 4 years!
This is Lily, now she's age 7. she's still fighting. S0 cute...and brave. Please help me help her and the (too) many little kids who need us, by supporting my ride with either a donation, or a share on Facebook or other social media, or just ask one or two friends to consider a good deed today. The link is https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/PaulBrindamour Thank you so much.
My Story
[scroll down = updates] This September, 2024 I am taking part in the Great Cycle Challenge to fight kids' cancer! ...my 4th year riding for Liliana...she's grown! See her age 7 picture at the left (or below).
Why ride and help? Because right now, cancer is the biggest killer of children from disease in the United States. Over 15,700 children are diagnosed every year, and sadly, 38 children die of cancer every week. Kids should be living life, not fighting for it.
* So I am raising funds through my challenge to help these kids and support Children's Cancer Research Fund to allow them to continue their work to develop lifesaving treatments and find a cure for childhood cancer.
* History: In 2021, the goals of 100 miles and $500 were beat with over $1,500 raised. 2022's goals, 150 miles and $1500, were CRUSHED; In 2023, I was amazed at the $2,907 in generous support from all of you, exceeding our 175 mile and $2,800 goals!
* So now getting more experienced (older?), so why not aim high to 200 miles and $3,000?
Please support me by making a donation to give these kids the brighter futures they deserve >>>>>>>>>> ...and THANK YOU to all for reading this !
Your support will save little lives.
A couple of reminders:
1. DONATIONS now, ahead of September, DO count;
2. My August training MILES will be zeroed out by GCC on 9-1 to be fair to all riders;
3. Since I'm traveling for 10 days in September, I'll likely have to continue riding in early October (allowed by GCC) and I WILL ride until at least the 200 mile goal is reached; and
4. There will be a September day called MATCH DAY; a national group will MATCH donations...so IF YOU ARE following me CLOSELY, watch for that opportunity; when known, I'll post a few days prior both here & on Facebook. If not for you, then please know any support, any time helps these little kids fighting cancer. THANKS !
My Legacy
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151 mi Ridden$1,639 Raised2021
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152 mi Ridden$2,668 Raised2022
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175 mi Ridden$2,907 Raised2023
My Challenge
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Donations still coming... !!
28 Oct 2024I seem to have LOST my access to Facebook and the fundraiser page??? (NOT the first time).
But I've sent an email to everyone I originally reached out to to THANK all of YOU for the substantial and various forms of support (cheers, bike loans....and donations to GCC of course.
I attached a report of our success and details of how we ranked nationally, within the state (CT), and within my age group. If you didn't get the report, just email me at psbrind1@gmail.com or text to 860 739 4668. I'd love to hear from you.
Posted 26 days ago -
5.3 mi ride - GcC final - Tuesday, October 22, 2024
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7.0 mi ride - Bluffs Point & Mumford Cove, Groton, CT - Monday, October 21, 2024
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4.0 mi ride - Bluffs point, Groton, CT - Monday, October 21, 2024
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5.5 mi ride - Short spin - Sunday, October 20, 2024
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183 miles done!...90+% of goal...and still riding, now in Niantic, CT.
18 Oct 2024One more ride (or two?) to reach our 200 mile goal!
Pic with new grandson, is the reason we're in Maine...
Posted 36 days ago -
10.2 mi ride - Niantic Neighborhood - Thursday, October 17, 2024
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11.5 mi ride - 11.52 Miles in the WIND, York, ME - Saturday, October 12, 2024
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15.9 mi ride - Longest so far 16Eurica,Sentry,103,Seabury,Organug,NICKs,91,Bogs,Chases,Spur,Bluestone,Beacon,Flaggs - Thursday, October 10, 2024
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Getting there!... I've completed 145 miles (about 70%) and just 55 to go !!
8 Oct 2024Thanks to each an everyone of you for encouraging me...I'm almost there, while YOU stepped up to the plate, hitting a home run for the Great Cycle Challenge team...putting us over the $3,000 goal. Congrats and again: Thank YOU.
Posted 46 days ago -
9.4 mi ride - Beacon/Rogers/ShtSands/rt1/KeyWay/Steam/Clark/River/Shore/LongSnds/Garrison - Tuesday, October 8, 2024
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13.1 mi ride - 13.08mi Road Cycling - Sunday, October 6, 2024
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Early Statistics from GCC on 2024's Great Cycle Challenge... YOU supporters DESERVE kudos: Great work!
4 Oct 2024STATS for 2024 GCC as of 10-4-24
• Your collective miles ridden would lap the circumference of the earth 80 times!
• Over 97,256 donations have been made to fight kids' cancer!
• 107 riders pedaled over 1,000 miles for their challenge.
• 37 riders raised over $10,000 to fight kids' cancer, becoming GCC All-Stars.
• 1,701 participants have survived their own personal fight against cancer.
• 138,687 individual rides were completed throughout September.
• The average donation made to sponsor a rider was $89.
• Once again, Guillermo Pous was our #1 fundraiser across the country, riding 1,007 miles and raising a mind-boggling $69,458! This stunning effort for our kids takes his all-time total raised over 8 years in the challenge to $294,655. He is a cancer-fighting phenomenon.
• Our Facebook group GCC Friends USA gained 1,311 members. Group members have shared 5,758 posts and left 82,459 comments and reactions!
• 15 kids under 5 years old took on the challenge to kick cancer's butt for other kids.
• Brooke Verges rode 162 miles and raised $4,002 to kick cancer's butt. She fought melanoma after being diagnosed at just 6 years old. Brooke is now cancer-free (WOOHOO) and living a happy life, and wants the same outcome for ALL kids diagnosed with cancer.
• We've received countless messages from families affected by cancer thanking you for your fantastic efforts.
• 2,056 riders raised $1,000+ and became members of the Peloton Club.
• Riders from Delaware raised an average of $650 - the highest in the country.
• This GCC community rallied on Facebook, liking, commenting, messaging and sharing our posts 1,020,235 times.
• Crystal Dunnings, a 9-year legacy rider, rode 400 miles and raised $6,383 for family and friends affected by cancer. She rides year-on-year to "keep others from losing their loved ones to this horrible disease."
• Steve Link rode 651 miles and raised $11,505 to fight kids' cancer, making him the #1 fundraiser among our first-year riders = EPIC stuff. He rides for his 26-year-old son and his mom, who are both battling cancer.
• Together, we've been in the saddle for the equivalent of 367,611 days, 6 hours, and 28 minutes.
• Over the 10 years of GCC, we've ridden 33,471,564 miles and raised $79,884,352 to fight kids' cancer!
Posted 50 days ago -
10.3 mi ride - Reverse to Payne Rd. & back. - Friday, October 4, 2024
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Enjoyed achieving over 100 miles today; I'm catching up to my 200 mile promise to you all.
3 Oct 2024A bonus today: I took a "left" from my last ride north towards Ogunquit from York, ME and found FLO'S, a 65 year old hot dog stand (see pic) run by an "old" couple. Cash only, and 11-3 only, and Thurs to Sunday only. It's WORTH it. $4 for the best hot dog ever (very special home-made relish). Only in Maine.
Posted 51 days ago -
14.2 mi ride - N to PineHillRd, then Flo's Hot Dog on Rt 1, Yum! - Thursday, October 3, 2024
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14.0 mi ride - 13.99mi Road Cycling - Monday, September 30, 2024
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2.1 mi ride - Adjust track: Ogunquit,me pic=Phillips Cove - Monday, September 30, 2024
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12.6 mi ride - York: 1A, rt103, Barrel Dam, Payne, & York Heights - Friday, September 27, 2024
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Hey...YOU have made the $3,000 Goal ! WOW...and Congrats and thank you so much.
26 Sep 2024While we've stepped up to the Great Cycle Challenge fundraising goal... I've yet to reach the riding goal of 200 miles (yes, due to a vacation, and illness interruptions). BUT I'm in the groove at almost 70 miles and climbing (oof, that hurts). I WILL finish, albeit in October I'm sure. Thanks for all the support; I will NOT let you down. Paul.
Posted 58 days ago -
4.2 mi ride - 4.17mi Road Cycling - Thursday, September 26, 2024
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8.9 mi ride - Woodbridge counter clock - Thursday, September 26, 2024
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5.1 mi ride - Woodbridge, York, ME (Make up...tracker on pause). - Thursday, September 26, 2024
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5.6 mi ride - York, me...Eureka path 5.58mi - Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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10.3 mi ride - York Cliffs, a climb 10.27mi - Monday, September 23, 2024
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I'm still riding...Liliana still fighting cancer...we need your help to keep hope alive
23 Sep 2024I thought you'd appreciate an update on Liliana, my inspiration the last 4 years, a letter we received from the leaders of the Great Cycle Challenge:
Dear Paul and your supporters,
Look at that smile. That’s a happy little girl. But it’s also a little girl fighting cancer.
At 3 years of age, Liliana—“Lily” to her friends and family—was cheery, full of energy. But then she got pale, and she seemed to be tired all the time. Maybe it’s anemia. Lily’s mom, Tiffany, is a nurse. She knew to give her daughter iron supplements for anemia. But they didn’t help.
The pediatrician urged a hospital visit. The emergency room doctor called Oncology. Very quickly, Lily received a diagnosis of leukemia. But then . . .
Thanks to the giving of caring friends like you, Lily went into a clinical trial for a new drug . . . one that researchers believe could be not only more effective than other cancer treatments for children like Lily—but also less harmful, with fewer difficult side effects.
Paul and friends, through your generous support of Children’s Cancer Research Fund, you make clinical trials possible for Lily and countless other children.
“Trials like this help find less harsh treatments,” Tiffany says, “and we want to find ways to make things easier and more tolerable for kids like Lily.”
But funding for such trials, and the research they represent, is scarce. Which means your support today is critically important.
“These are kids who are just starting their lives,” Tiffany says. “They need this research.”
Today, Lily is a giggly 7-year-old who is still on her cancer journey. She loves her older siblings and is obsessed with unicorns. When Lily is feeling well, she loves to play “pretend.” She’s “funny, shiny and full of life,” Tiffany says.
There are so many children, just like Lily, who need help . . . I’m hoping you’ll help launch and sustain cancer research by the best and brightest leaders in the field. That’s what your donation right now will help to provide.
Gratefully,
The Great Cycle Challenge, and
Elizabeth Crippen Allen, CEO Children’s Cancer Research Fund
P.S. Your gift will make it possible for kids fighting cancer to get back to being kids. It’s all of us against childhood cancer!
https://greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/PaulBrindamour
Posted 61 days ago -
5.6 mi ride - 5.64mi Nubble Light 5+ - Sunday, September 22, 2024
Logged this ride 62 days ago -
$1,000 raised to fight kids' cancer!
I just raised $1,000 to fight kids' cancer and achieved WARRIOR LEVEL in the challenge! Thank you so much for your support.
Posted 74 days ago -
8.5 mi ride - Riding near Sitka, ak. - Sunday, September 8, 2024
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11.3 mi ride - Cycling while crusing the Inside Strait, ak. - Saturday, September 7, 2024
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9-1-2024 1st September ride for GCC, the Great Cycle Challenge
2 Sep 2024At our York, ME camper following 1st GCC 10.2 mile ride 9-1-2024
(Again, be aware I won't be able to post for a bit... due to travelling, but will try to keep the GCC page updated. I WILL finish the 200 miles! .... 190 to go!
Please support my ride; it's for little kids with cancer
Posted 83 days ago -
10.2 mi ride - 10.23mi Road Cycling;--- 10 miles down, 190 to go! - Sunday, September 1, 2024
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$500 raised to fight kids' cancer!
I just raised $500 to fight kids' cancer and achieved GUARDIAN LEVEL in the challenge! Thank you so much for your support.
Posted 98 days ago -
...from Protector...to Guardian level.
16 Aug 2024Way to Go !
Posted 99 days ago -
$250 raised to fight kids' cancer!
I just raised $250 to fight kids' cancer and achieved PROTECTOR LEVEL in the challenge! Thank you so much for your support.
Posted 100 days ago -
$100 raised to fight kids' cancer!
I just raised $100 to fight kids' cancer and achieved DEFENDER LEVEL in the challenge! Thank you so much for your support.
Posted 102 days ago -
A picture for you to consider
9 Aug 2024This is a pic of Liliana's family.
Posted 106 days ago
My Sponsors
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Kick Cancer's Butt Day matched donation
“Here's your matched donation from a group of wonderful Children's Cancer Research Fund supporters. THANK YOU so much for your awesome efforts to kick cancer's butt!”
$830.36Received this donation 73 days ago
Paul
“Whoever you are, just in case you don't know, your MATCH is mighty motivating. Thanks so much.”
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Luke Brindamour
“Love you Papa! You go!”
$311.54Received this donation 74 days ago
Paul
“I'm running (ahem riding) out of ways to hug & thank you for encouraging and supporting my GC Challenge, but here goes: I guess when you Cycle, shift happens; I'm wheelie into cycling; and for these little kids fighting cancer, I'm goin' to keep riding 'til I'm two tired. Thanks & Bjt'ab.”
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Elizabeth Helbig
$124.20Received this donation 99 days ago
Paul
“Liz, so thankful for your continuing support. p.s. we are summering in York, ME, but will be back mid-October; hope we can get together then. pb”
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James Eldridge
“You bony knees:]”
$124.20Received this donation 74 days ago
Paul
“James, you bony head! :)) Oh yeah, & THANKS for supporting my ride so generously. But mostly on behalf of the little kids, "You're the BOMB!"”
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Joe and Mary Lero
“Thanks Paul. Appreciate your efforts in this endeavor. All children are our future!”
$103.50Received this donation 98 days ago
Paul
“Joe, wow, you are a "child-saver", along with all sponsors to this effort to save little lives. On behalf of these kids, a big thanks is sent your way. L, PB”
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Facebook Fundraiser Donation
$100Received this donation 102 days ago
Paul
“Thank you Facebook for reaching out and finding one of my oldest and best friends! Our Journey begins thanks to you all.”
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Facebook Fundraiser Donation
$100Received this donation 101 days ago
Paul
“C, I hope you know how much your support means to me, but of course to those little children fighting cancer. Together we are helping them and their families in the short term and to fund research for the longer term. THANKS, because YOU are giving them hope!”
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Design Essence Inc.
“We hope this makes you break a sweat! Great cause, happy to donate!! Ed & Jan”
$77.63Received this donation 68 days ago
Paul
“Oh WoW! Lots of sweat a-comin for the rest of September (and a bit into Oct) to complete our 200 miles goal. But support from YOU gets me very close to our $3,000 goal! THANKS so much! ...the kids fighting cancer need the hope you have provided today to keep on fighting. Paul”
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Donna Chase
“Way to go, Paul. Hope you reach your goals.”
$72.45Received this donation 71 days ago
Paul
“Donna, you're so sweet and caring. THANKS for your support, and especially for the HOPE that we can give to kids fighting cancer. ...and yes, because of a bunch of gifts like yours on Match Day, we're very close to the $3000 goal! (Ps. I promise I'll complete my 200 miles goal, despite the slow start due to a vacation in Alaska the past 9 days.) Paul.”
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John Woods
“Keep ROCKIN' brother Paul. You've got this!”
$72.45Received this donation 100 days ago
Paul
“Oh my! My bro is so kind and such a good man. John, the little ones (and I) appreciate your thoughts and support. I DO "got this" with your encouragement. Thanks.”
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Keith & Nancy Fontaine
“Ride on, Paul!”
$72.45Received this donation 84 days ago
Paul
“Hugs comin' your way for helping the little kids fighting cancer. Together, we look forward to them living life, not fighting for it. Thanks from me on their behalf for your thoughtfulness. You are GOOD people. See you (in October, if back from the "fest"). Warm appreciative regards, Paul.”
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Anonymous
$72.45Received this donation 27 days ago
Paul
“HI Anonymous "old" friend: Got your message! Of course, it's never too late to help the little kids hoping for a breakthrough in their cancer treatments. We've, together, done a lot of good. My personal THANKS for your continuing support. Hopefully, I can continue to ride for a while. L, Paul.”
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Mary Sherlock
$72.45Received this donation 73 days ago
Paul
“Mary, I have a message from Anchorage ( now that I have an internet connection): Your generous support means a lot to me, keeps me going (lots of miles to go), and most of all, gives real hope to little ones fighting cancer. I & they Thank You!”
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Aline Godfrey
“So proud of you my little Bro!”
$51.75Received this donation 94 days ago
Paul
“To my loving sister, THANKS for supporting my ride AND mostly for supporting the little kids fighting for their lives! Together, we WILL help find cures for these kids. Together we have the power to change little lives! Warm thankful hugs to YOU.”
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Bob Langton
“Good luck, Paul. May you have a fair wind at your back.”
$51.75Received this donation 61 days ago
Paul
“Bob, THANKS! ...and I need the wind too. About to go ride again this afternoon....hopefully a 10 miler. Wanted you to know you (and other sponsors) have not only supported my 200 mile ride...but have provided HOPE to lots of little kids fighting cancer. That's important, and amazing. Together, we WILL kick cancer's butt. Again, a sincere thank you. Paul.”
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Anonymous
“Go, Paul!!! ❤️”
$51.75Received this donation 61 days ago
Paul
“THANK YOU ANONYMOUS! Your generosity (of course combined with all other sponsors) has put us within ONE INCH of reaching our $3000 goal! Although I do not know who you are (but a phone-birdy recently told me), I'm guessing this is your first time helping these little kids keep up the HOPE in their fight to beat cancer. Believe me, they appreciate the HOPE you have PROVIDED with this support of my 200 milie ride in progress...and with your encouragement, I WILL finish this ride for 2024. Together, we CAN KICK CANCER's BUTT. THANKS!”
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Roland Parenteau
$51.75Received this donation 97 days ago
Paul
“Allright brother Roland! You KNOW that you are sooo appreciated by me, but mostly by the too-many little kids fighting cancer. Thank YOU.”
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Bill McCaffrey
“Safe & successful riding!!”
$36.23Received this donation 74 days ago
Paul
“Bill, first, thanks for your support, which was MATCHED :) ! Together, we've given precious hope to a lot of little children fighting cancer. Your support and others that day brought us very near the $3000 goal, and I'll complete the 200-mile goal despite the slow start due to our Alaska trip. Riding on! Thanks again!”
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Casey Sugarman
“Go Paul ! Richard, Linda, and Casey”
$36.23Received this donation 98 days ago
Paul
“Casey, so sweet and generous of you to help. On behalf of the little kids fighting cancer...THANKS! p.s. I'll be at Cherry St 24th to 28th. See ya. PB”
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Paul J. Pothier
$36.23Received this donation 52 days ago
Paul
“So Paul, thanks for your support! I'm happy you've joined in to help little kids fighting cancer and giving them hope for treatment improvements...maybe cures. I trust all is well. YOU got us over our $3,000 goal. Awesome.”