Hello Troop 336,

Our troop helps out at the Cowtown Marathon every year. This event is a lot of fun and it's a great way for scouts to earn 4 1/2 easy service hours and it is a tremendous help to the volunteers that put the Marathon together and the city of Fort Worth. The Troop 336 participation for this event has been wonderful over the years! Anyone can sign up (scouts, scouters, committee members, parents, siblings, friends). We are on site by 7:30 am on race day and are usually out by 12:30 pm. This year, the cowtown marathon expects over 20,000 runners from all over the world. We would like to get at least 20 volunteers. I would like to get an early head count so that we can request t-shirts (they are free). Anyone can volunteer up to the day of the event, but you may not get a t-shirt. We have done this event for more than 10 years and are very well known by the marathon coordinators because of our participation. Please email me or talk to me at the troop meeting if you would like to volunteer and tell me what shirt sizes you need (adult sizes: S,M,L, XL, or XXL).

What do we do:

Scouts are required to do 1 service hour for Second Class and 6 service hours for both Star and Life Scout requirements.

Last year, our troop manned the fluid station at mile 21 of the Marathon/ Ultra Marathon race. I am waiting to hear from the race coordinator where our location will be this year.

Scouts set up tables with water and Gatorade. We hand water/Gatorade to the runners as they come by and cheer them on. We will be there from 7:00 am until about 12:30 am on Sunday, February 26th.


There is no organized car pooling for this event like there is on campouts. But if a scout wants to volunteer and does not have a ride, let me know and I'm sure that we can find one for him. We will caravan from the church. I will send out more detailed information when we get our official location assignment.


Again, if you would like to help out, please email me or talk to me at a troop meeting. I need shirt sizes (Adult Small thru XXL) for anyone volunteering for the event. You can sign up to volunteer all the way up to the day of the event, but you may not get a t-shirt if you wait too long.


For more info on the marathon, go to the Cowtown Marathon website at http://www.cowtownmarathon.org/.



Thank you,


Jeff Trahan
Cell: 817-729-7000
Email: jeff.trahan@yahoo.com