In our family, now now now we now have a motto that “now now we now have been made to do laborious elements,” (found from my associates the Wonderling Family) and it’s on a regular basis fulfilling to ponder new challenges and adventures to do collectively. This motto has been our encouragement by the use of private and family challenges from prolonged hikes to cliff leaping and pole vaulting to math elements (and the whole factors in between).
This morning, that motto spurred on a satisfying new draw back… setting a world doc!
Why A LEGO® Strolling World Doc?
One amongst my targets for this yr was to set a world doc, and realizing the importance of neighborhood, I knew I needed to attempt it with totally completely totally different moms…
This yr has been sturdy for loads of households, and moms significantly, so I needed to ponder one problem every fulfilling and humorous that I’ll do as a staff with some women in my neighborhood. As moms, I seen that now now now we now have been instructing to set a Lego strolling world doc for years with out even realizing it! How many people have had the experience of a Lego to the foot whereas strolling all by the use of a room all through the midst of the night time time to get a fussy baby, or whereas working all by the use of the house to answer the door or take a look at the oven?
We now have now obtained the experience, and now now now we now have the legos!
Between our staff of 5 moms, now now now we now have 19 children and precisely over 200 kilos of LEGOs®. We’d spent over 14 years (760 weeks) pregnant… how laborious could a few minutes of LEGO® strolling be? Appears… pretty sturdy!
Getting ready for the World Doc Strive
Extra goes appropriate correct proper right into a world doc attempt than chances are you’ll assume! We started preparing in February and coordinating with GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® to make sure the event counted. Downside obtained far more troublesome with journey restrictions and coordinating the last word phrase attempt. All in all, appropriate correct proper right here’s what it took to get us ready:
- 8 months of planning
- 5 relay staff members (and 5 supportive husbands)
- 3 neutral witnesses
- 2 medical professionals for foot verification
- An official flat ground at an space monitor facility
- a ten meter monitor fabricated from plywood and 2x4s (with roughly two toes of turnaround space on each side)
- My dad serving to assemble the monitor
- 200+ kilos of legos
- Dwell and official verification with Guinness World Doc staff in fairly just a few worldwide areas
- 19 of top-of-the-line cheerleaders and pit crew to throw legos as quickly as additional in that we could ask for (our youngsters)
- Some good associates cheering us on
- A playlist of upbeat, motivational 80s music
- Meals for everyone: 2 giant breakfast casseroles, a espresso cake, 48 muffins, 42 cups of espresso, 9 pizzas
- A bit little little little little bit of blood (from our toes), fairly just a few sweat, and (surprisingly) no tears!
- A minor hurricane (that didn’t instantly hit us)
I couldn’t be extra grateful and proud to have these totally completely totally different good women as associates: Ashley, Savanna, Grace, and Cat. Not solely did they arise early on a weekend to return once more as soon as extra stroll on LEGOs® with me, nonetheless they walked sooner and farther than I ever anticipated! I’ve on a regular basis talked about that moms are definitely one in every of many essential terribly surroundings pleasant forces on this planet, they usually proved it this morning.
The Official World Doc Strive
This morning for the attempt, all of us assembled about 90 minutes upfront of start time. We’d constructed the monitor the night time time sooner than and it was able to go. To substantiate the monitor, we employed an professional surveyor to formally measure and submit a report. Shortly after, an space doctor and an EMT inspected our toes to make sure they weren’t coated in a single issue or injured (nonetheless!).
We had three witnesses, Alex, Michael, and Zachary (all coaches or former athletes), be taught by the use of the six pages of official pointers and obtained ready with notebooks, clipboards, stopwatches and counters. One witness sat in any respect sides of our 10 meter monitor and one was inside the middle. The witnesses counted and launched each lap and steered us how reasonably hundreds time we’d been strolling. We wished to cowl on the very least 1 km to be eligible for the doc.
Our official attempt kicked off shortly after 9 AM and commenced sturdy at a tempo of about 12 seconds per lap. Each of us walked roughly 12 minutes and we wished to cowl on the very least 20 laps minimal per particular particular person. We did that sooner than the halfway mark and formally crossed the minimal on the third leg of the relay!
When the stopwatch lastly beeped on the one-hour mark, we had lined 328 laps! Our objective was to walk on the very least 1 km and we walked over 3 km (over 2 miles!). Our youngsters served as “pit crew” and threw the LEGOs® as quickly as additional on the monitor all through the occasion that they flew off whereas now now we now have been strolling.
In Case You Had been Questioning
Optimistic, it hurts!
All of us had bloody toes by the easiest of the morning and didn’t want to walk for the rest of the day. The first few laps aren’t too harmful and in some strategies have been easier than stepping on stray LEGOs® than happens unexpectedly in our on every day basis lives. After the first 100 meters or so, the toes start to get truly raw and strolling will get extra sturdy. By 10 minutes in, we each started to question why we’d decided to try this inside the first place!
Our World Doc Outcomes…
The workers at Guinness World Information® was truly good to work with and had an official adjudicator on decide to substantiate our attempt. After fairly just a few hours of prepared on pins and needles (or precisely… LEGOs®), we obtained the official phrase that we’d set the model new world doc!
We now formally protect the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® title for farthest distance traveled by strolling barefoot on LEGO bricks by a relay in a single hour! And are literally icing our toes!
What do you assume? Would you ever voluntarily stroll on LEGOs?
