Host: Bowling Green Firefighters' Association

Purpose: "Ruck Cancer" - fundraiser for Jimmy Wallace family 

Ruck Starting Point: "BGFA Duck Shack" 615 Fairview Court (next to Fire Dept HQ). Parking options: CHC Human Resources, downtown parking structure, downtown street parking.

Time: 8:00 am - ??  (Be early to meet your team)

What to Know: If this is your first RuckBG, be prepared to sweat, get wet, laugh and be sore the next day! Wear old shoes; bring your own water. 

Wearing a ruck is optional, but why not?! Recommended weight: 20-30lbs men, 10-15lbs women.

Group event: Recruit your friends and pick a Team Name BEFORE registering. Get fun with team apparel! If you do not register with a Team Name, participants will be assigned to a 8-12 person team prior to the event. Each team will be led through the course by a cadre.

Cost: $50 per person to participate.

Sponsor as individual or business with $100 minimum in $50 increments. Business logos will be added to event t-shirt and signage.

To participate and sponsor, select $150 or more.

Payment options: check or Venmo. Mark all payment #RuckBG-Wallace.  See options at end before submitting.

AfterParty: Stay late for refreshments at the BGFA Duck Shack

Questions: email us at bgfirefightersassociation@gmail.com

WHAT IS RUCK?
RUCK•ING [VERB] // Walking with a weighted rucksack (aka backpack). It implies action, energy, and purpose. Rucking requires strength, endurance, and character — and builds it, too. (www.goruck.com)

BGFA hosts RuckBG once a year aimed at fundraising, team building, social gathering, networking, and community development.  Not only do BGFA members get to know each other better, but they get to know their community and their sponsors better.  RuckBG is for everyone! Recruit friends, family, gym members, church group, co-workers!

Ruck leaders, known as a Cadre, design a new community-basd course annually. It is designed to challenge teams and build confidence and comradery among its members. The Cadres, on the day of the Ruck, will lead their teams through the course and its obstacles and encourage teambuilding and competition along the way. Ruck team members will supply their own weighted backpack (or better yet a rucksack) weighing 10 pounds up to, but not limited to, 30 pounds (optional). Often, Cadres lead their teams into wet, dirty, muddy environments while carrying additional loads of stones, bricks, or logs to push the limits of their team members.

Recipient Bio: Jimmy Wallace is a 38 year old husband and father of two.  He’s an extremely hard working and genuine guy that would doing anything for anyone.  At 24 years old, he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called Neuroendocrine Carcinoma.  Over the past 14 years Jimmy has faced multiple surgeries and treatments for tumors in his pancreas, liver, stomach, lungs, bones and multiple lymph nodes throughout his body.  He never complains and is only concerned with how long he will have to miss work and maintaining an active role in the lives of his teenage children.

This Thanksgiving, while vacationing with his family, Jimmy was plagued with intense pain.  He saw his specialist when he returned home and started a new immunotherapy treatment.  In February, the pain, swelling, lack of appetite and extreme fatigue made him unable to work.  In March, the scans showed significant disease progression throughout his body, most significantly in his liver.  The immunotherapy was not working. Being that Neuroendocrine Cancer is so rare, there are very few FDA approved treatment options and he’s basically exhausted them all. Jimmy will begin an aggressive form of chemotherapy to try to stop the growth and spread of these tumors.  Any funds raised by Ruck BG will go directly to medical expenses, travel to his specialist in Lexington and providing for his family.  Jimmy is extremely grateful and humbled that he was chosen.

Event Consent Form:

I know that running [volunteering for] a road race is potentially a hazardous activity, which could cause injury or death. I will not enter and participate unless I am medically able and properly trained, and by my signature, I certify that I am medically able to perform this event, in good health, and properly trained.

 I agree to abide by any decision of a race official relative to any aspect of my participation in this event, including the right of any official to deny or suspend my participation for any reason whatsoever. I assume all risks associated with running in this event, including but no limited to: falls, contact with other participants, the effects of the weather, including high heat and/or humidity, traffic and the conditions of the road, all such risks being known and appreciated by me. I understand that bicycles, skateboards, baby joggers, roller skates or roller blades, animals, and personal music players are not allowed in the race and I will abide by all race rules. Having read this waiver and knowing these facts and inconsideration of your accepting my entry, I, for myself and anyone entitled to act on my behalf, waive and release the RUCK BG, the city of BOWLING GREEN, KY, and the Bowling Green Firefighter’s Association, all event sponsors, their representatives and successors from all claims or liabilities of any kind arising out of my participation in this event, even though that liability may arise out of negligence or carelessness on the part of the persons named in this waiver. 

BGFA assumes no risk of damage to cell phones or other personal devices: leave these in your car!

 I grant permission to all of the foregoing to use my photographs, motion pictures, recordings or any other record of this event for any legitimate purpose.