11
September
2025

Goggins Challenge

Join Bret Buike on an incredible journey as he tackles the Goggins Challenge to raise awareness and support for addiction, mental health, and veteran suicide prevention. Together, we can make a difference!

Goggins Challenge

Hey Everyone,

Buckeye Bret here, and for those of you who follow me on Facebook you probably noticed over the weekend a lot more posts than normal and that’s saying something…LOL. I was running the Goggins Challenge. This is an event created by David Goggins where you Run 4 Miles - Every 4 Hours -for 48 hours. It is designed to be as awful as it sounds. It is designed to not allow your body or your mind the chance to recover. It is like having 12 bad days in a row crammed into 48 hours and I LOVE IT. During the event I struggle, everyone does. I struggle with my own physical limitations, my emotional, and my mental ones. This is my 4th year and every time I am worried I won’t finish. This is also how people struggling feel every day. Constantly wanting to give up, doubting if they can make it another day or another 4 miles. Remember, we have all already survived 100% of our Bad days and I say to anyone struggling, please hold on for 1 more day, please reach out for help and remember the world is a better place with you in it.

I love this event because, for me, it serves a very special purpose. It helps me to raise money and awareness for Addiction, mental health, and veteran suicide prevention. More importantly it helps me keep the memory alive of my Sister in Law Kate Holton , who we lost to a heroin overdose and My Nephew Justice Buike and Army veteran who took his own life. For me this event is not just about raising money but it is also therapeutic. I put all my energy and effort in to trying to help others so they hopefully will not suffer the same fate. I do it for the families, so they won’t have to bury a loved one or a child, and it do it for my loved ones because I struggle with feeling that I let them down. This year so far we have had over 700 participants in the challenge and 2 coordinated 5k runs. I have raised almost $65,000 so far and the other events have generated roughly $90,000. Just Amazing. Help me meet or exceed our Goal of $75,000 raised!

I want to thank everyone who supported me and all my participants this last weekend. It really means a lot to all of us and to all those watching who are dealing, coping, or who have already lost a loved one. We can accomplish a lot together and I thank you in advance for your continued Support and Donations. All Funds go to organizations like Recovery Resources, Riveon Health, and Primary Purpose. These organizations are the front line for substance abuse, mental health, and suicide prevention. I am a proud board member of these organizations and very proud to announce my family has launched its own 501c3 called the 4 Anchors Foundation. My goals is to work harder, to raise more money, to do more events, and to always help those who reach out to me to get the care and attention they need.

If I can ever help any one of you, please reach out and remember to CALL 988 if you ever need it… this hotline is available 24 hours a day.

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Bret Buike

Bret Buike

With over 15 years of experience in ownership, management, and sales in the automotive field, I am in tune with the wants and needs of dealers in all BHPH, Independent, and Franchise style operations. My goal at Buckeye is to help customize a reinsurance program for our dealers that allows them to focus on their individual goals. Whether that is Wealth Management, Retirement Planning, Capital for Growth, or daily Cash Flow, Buckeye can create a reinsurance program specifically for our dealers’ needs.

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