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\"Our<\/strong>
Our First Family Race - Tour de Donut held in Pleasant Grove\/American Fork on July 16, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our first family bike race!<\/strong>
\nYesterday we participated in the Utah Tour de Donut. A spoof on Tour de France, and not nearly as long!\u00a0 It was for charity, and a lot of fun.\u00a0 I stumbled across this event as I was helping James with his Bicycling Merit Badge. He needed to look up the state laws regarding bike safety and this event was listed as an upcoming event.\u00a0\u00a0 When I clicked on the 45 second video<\/a> showing last years event I laughed out loud so hard the rest of the boys came running into the kitchen to see what was going on. (Apparently I don’t laugh very often, and when I do it’s a major event!)\u00a0 They watched the commercial with me again and I asked, “Well… should we do it?”\u00a0\u00a0 “YES YES YES YES, Pleeeeaasssse?!”<\/p>\n

To sum it up: 3 laps of 7 miles each. At the completion of each lap, eat as many donuts as you can. For each donut eaten, get 3 minutes shaved off your final time. All the funds raised went toward charity stuff.<\/p>\n

So we entered!\u00a0 Dave was a volunteer since he hasn’t been doing the biking as we have.\u00a0 While he is at work, we’ve been biking a lot – anywhere between 5-10 miles every 2 days.<\/p>\n

\"Samuel
Samuel (5) is one strong kid! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interestingly enough, it is Samuel (5) who is the strongest of all the brothers in regards to stamina. (And of course Anthony.) Samuel was actually the first one in our family to complete the 1st lap.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Samuel had an equipment malfunction with his Camelbak (a drinking apparatus to drink water without dealing with hands and bottles). In our hurry to make it to the start line in time, I didn’t help him put it on his back, and he put it on upside down. So the water wasn’t coming down the tube when he wanted a drink. So he rode 7 miles without any water, and still came in 1st!\u00a0 That kid is amazing.\u00a0 He was also the youngest registered child that actually rode. (Jacob was registered, but wasn’t riding a bike. He was in the trailer I was pulling.)<\/p>\n

Next was Anthony who was 10 minutes behind Samuel!<\/p>\n

\"Anthony
Anthony quickly eating a donut before getting back on the road. Dave's phone camera accidentally had a weird setting of a blue tint. But at least we got this picture of him as he just took off on his own!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I never even rode with Anthony because he just took off! He LOVED this event and wants to do more. He completed all 3 laps, but we won’t know his exact time because on the completion of the 3rd lap he didn’t go across the finish line for the computer to clock him. He went into the donut lane instead. We figured that he was about 15-20 minutes ahead of James and I. So when we get our times, I’ll calculate that in. Anthony says he ate 5 donuts total.<\/p>\n

\"At<\/a>
At the end of lap one. Benjamin (7), Samuel (5), Jacob (2). Picture taken by MARK JOHNSTON\/Daily Herald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My mom\u00a0 is here for a couple weeks and she came along to watch. She thought she’d just stay for an hour and have Lynette come get her.\u00a0 But really enjoyed it and stayed and watched. After the end of the 1st lap, the 3 youngest were ready to stop.\u00a0 So they stayed with Grandma Leavitt while Dave was doing his volunteer job.\u00a0 They mostly just played in and around her and the bushes, watching the bikers come in and eat donuts. Benjamin ate 2 donuts. Samuel ate 2 donuts and Jacob had one.\u00a0 (1,500 donuts were made by Maceys the night before. And they were ALL eaten too! About 600 riders were in the event.)<\/p>\n

\"James
James eating at the end of his 1st lap. Same strange blue tint on the camera settings. Oh well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

James at the end of his 2nd lap was getting exhausted but since he had to complete 25 miles that day for part of his Merit Badge, he said, “I HAVE to keep going.”\u00a0 I did some quick plugging in of affirmations, prayers, and energy work\u00a0 for him. About a quarter way through the 3rd lap he caught his second wind despite his gears not agreeing with his wanting to upshift.\u00a0 James only had one donut because he didn’t like the regular glazed. He wanted chocolate cake with chocolate icing.\u00a0 Gross. Makes me sick thinking about eating something that heavy!<\/p>\n

Dave was a volunteer helping to put donut tally marks on participants tags as they came in and out. It was pretty much non-stop of 2 hours for him.<\/p>\n

As for me, I really had a lot of fun and we’re looking forward to doing another family race soon!\u00a0 Oh, and I ate 3 donuts \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

As a \u201ctreat\u201d that evening we went to see the movie Cars 2. The boys loved all the action and the spy angle. Anthony observed, \u201cthey call that a rated G? There were machine guns, cars blowing up, and cars dying! That wasn’t a rated G!\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the Tour de Donut was only 21 miles, James had to go still another 4 miles to fulfill his 25 mile requirement. So he and I went to see the Spanish Fork Pioneer Cemetery that has recently been upgraded. Very nice place. (FYI \u2013 the Cycling Merit Badge actually is 100 miles total. So we’ll be doing some more riding!)<\/p>\n

Last night we all slept very soundly. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Love,
\n~LaReita<\/p>\n

p.s. For those detail people, wanting to know how we all got ourselves there with our bikes… I absolutely love our van. We folded down the back seat, took out the \u201c2nd shotgun\u201d seat, and were able to put in 3 big bikes as well as the trailer. In Dave’s car we put in the 2 smaller bikes and bungee corded the trunk down. Perfect! And there was a seat still for everyone without having to double-buckle.<\/p>\n

p.p.s. One of the sponsors of the event is a blogger called Fat Cyclist. Here is his report on the event.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Relaxing
Relaxing at the end of the race, waiting for results to be announced.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"End
End of the race. Found some shade while waiting to hear results. James (12), Jacob (2), Anthony (9)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Benjamin
Benjamin (7) is tired. Waiting in the shade for results to be announced.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jacob
Jacob (2) wanting to grab the camera from me and take pictures. He's a little upset I'm not letting him have it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our first family bike race! Yesterday we participated in the Utah Tour de Donut. A spoof on Tour de France, and not nearly as long!\u00a0 It was for charity, and a lot of fun.\u00a0 I stumbled across this event as I was helping James with his Bicycling Merit Badge. He needed to look up the … Continue reading “Utah Tour de Donut”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,50,25],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-adventure","tag-bike","tag-scouting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berky.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}