2025 End of Watch Memorial Ruck
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There are team options available for the 42 and 24-hour registrations.
Use the Code 165TEAMS for 20% off your total cost when registering 3 or more team members for for the 12 hour, 8 hour, 4 hour and 2 hour legs.
Let’s welcome back the 10/42 format for 2025! Thanks to all our wonderful and dedicated supporters, we are entering our eighth year for the annual End of Watch Memorial Ruck and our fourth year of the 10-42 format.
What you need to know!
The “10-42” format of the event is based on a radio “Ten Code” and/or “Signal” that many Law Enforcement agencies use when communicating on our radios. 10-42 is often the ten code used for “At home/Out of service”. Traditionally this code, or a code similar to it, is used as the “Final Radio Call” during the ceremony to honor a fallen brother or sister in blue who is no longer there to answer the call. They have gone to their final resting place. So in resemblance to the final radio call, this 10-42 formatted event will challenge you to ruck a minimum of 10 pounds for 42 hours. We do challenge you to carry 20lbs of dry weight to match the average weight in duty gear an officer carries on a daily basis. Don’t worry, if 42 hours sounds like a lot, we have broken the event down into more manageable time frames. You have the opportunity to sign up for shorter intervals such as 24, 12, 8, 4, and 2 hours. The 42 and 24 hour time slots have a team option for you and one other person to sign up together and work as a pair and trade off as needed. As long as one of you is rucking on each lap.
The weight, the miles, and a couple of rules…
We will have a one pound weight dedicated to each fallen officer of 2024 ready for you at the start/finish line. At the top and bottom of each hour we will release the participants to ruck a one mile loop. That’s two miles an hour. At the beginning of each mile we will release a limited number of weights to go on the mile loop. When those athletes return, they will submit those officer weights back to the sentinel and wait to be issued the next set of officer weights. While you can’t begin the next mile until the designated release times, you can complete the lap at your own pace. If you sign up in the 42 or 24 hour challenge group, you will have the option to register as a SOLO participant or as a TWO person team. In an effort to stay true to our core values of Teamwork is Key and maintaining standards, we will allow SOLO participants or someone who became SOLO due to a team mate dropping, to absorb another SOLO Rucker as their teammate. The caveat to this is that you can only join with someone from the same class; I.E. a 42hr participant can only join with another 42hr participant and a 24hr participant with another 24hr participant. Teams can be no larger than TWO people. More information about this rule is found under the 42hr and 24hr listings.
Thank you for joining us in our mission to honor the fallen and support those still on watch. If you have any questions about the event please feel free to email us at events@eowf.org
