In our family, now now we now have a motto that “now we now have been made to do laborious components,” (found from my mates the Wonderling Family) and it’s always fulfilling to ponder new challenges and adventures to do collectively. This motto has been our encouragement by means of non-public and family challenges from prolonged hikes to cliff leaping and pole vaulting to math components (and the whole factors in between).
This morning, that motto spurred on a satisfying new drawback… 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 wished to aim it with completely fully completely different moms…
This yr has been strong for a lot of households, and moms significantly, so I wished to ponder one problem every fulfilling and humorous that I could do as a workers with some women in my neighborhood. As moms, I seen that now now we now have been educating 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 means of a room all through the midst of the night time time time time to get a fussy little one, or whereas working all by means of the house to answer the door or try the oven?
We’ve now acquired the experience, and now now we now have the legos!
Between our workers of 5 moms, now now we now have 19 children and appropriately over 200 kilos of LEGOs®. We’d spent over 14 years (760 weeks) pregnant… how laborious might a few minutes of LEGO® strolling be? Appears… pretty strong!
Preparing for the World Doc Strive
Extra goes right correct proper right into a world doc try than you might assume! We started getting ready in February and coordinating with GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® to make sure the event counted. Problem obtained far more troublesome with journey restrictions and coordinating the final word phrase try. All in all, right correct proper right here’s what it took to get us ready:
- 8 months of planning
- 5 relay workers members (and 5 supportive husbands)
- 3 neutral witnesses
- 2 medical professionals for foot verification
- An official flat flooring at an space monitor facility
- a ten meter monitor fabricated from plywood and 2x4s (with roughly two toes of turnaround space on each aspect)
- My dad serving to assemble the monitor
- 200+ kilos of legos
- Dwell and official verification with Guinness World Doc employees in fairly a couple of worldwide areas
- 19 of top-of-the-line cheerleaders and pit crew to throw legos as quickly as further in that we might ask for (our kids)
- Some good mates cheering us on
- A playlist of upbeat, motivational 80s music
- Meals for everyone: 2 big 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 a couple of 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 completely fully completely different good women as mates: Ashley, Savanna, Grace, and Cat. Not solely did they rise up 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 always talked about that moms are one amongst many necessary terribly surroundings pleasant forces on this planet, they normally proved it this morning.
The Official World Doc Strive
This morning for the try, all of us assembled about 90 minutes upfront of start time. We’d constructed the monitor the night time time time time earlier than and it was able to go. To substantiate the monitor, we employed an knowledgeable 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 means of the six pages of official pointers and obtained ready with notebooks, clipboards, stopwatches and counters. One witness sat at either side of our 10 meter monitor and one was inside the middle. The witnesses counted and launched each lap and suggested us how fairly hundreds time we’d been strolling. We wished to cowl on the very least 1 km to be eligible for the doc.
Our official try 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 specific individual. We did that earlier 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 kids served as “pit crew” and threw the LEGOs® as quickly as further on the monitor all through the occasion that they flew off whereas now we now have been strolling.
In Case You Had been Questioning
Constructive, it hurts!
All of us had bloody toes by the most effective of the morning and didn’t want to stroll for the rest of the day. The first few laps aren’t too harmful and in some strategies have been less complicated than stepping on stray LEGOs® than happens unexpectedly in our on daily basis lives. After the first 100 meters or so, the toes start to get really raw and strolling will get extra sturdy. By 10 minutes in, we each started to question why we’d decided to do that inside the first place!
Our World Doc Outcomes…
The workers at Guinness World Knowledge® was really good to work with and had an official adjudicator on set up to substantiate our try. After fairly a couple of hours of prepared on pins and needles (or appropriately… LEGOs®), we obtained the official phrase that we’d set the model new world doc!
We now formally maintain 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?
