The Quest for the Glazed Jersey

I think that most of you know that I have dusted the old bike off this summer and have started riding to and from work on most days. The reasons for doing so range from "It is just fun" to "I'm saving the environment (and money for gas - oil jerks!!)". I gotta say the going was tough those first couple of weeks, but now it is a breeze - unless I pair up with Ken (Bro in law and super biker extraordinaire) and he pushes me until I want to puke. ;)

The time came, though, when I wanted to test my riding and what better opportunity than the first annual American Fork "Tour de Donut". Biking - and eating donuts at the same time??? Sounds perfect!!!

The rules of the Tour are pretty straight forward. First, you ride a 7 mile loop. Then you have a chance to eat as many glazed donuts as you like, and each donut you eat earns you a 3 minute deduction from your total time. Eat 5 donuts - deduct 15 minutes from your time. (And no barfing allowed!!) Then, jump back on your bike and ride another 7 miles, then eat, then ride the final 7 miles. Total time and adjusted time were taken at the end, and trophies given to the various categories.

I gotta say - my first thought was, "Man - this will be easy!!" The first 2 donuts went down with no problem, but when I came around from the second lap I could only do just one more. Errrp I more wanted to finish riding the 21 miles than I did want to eat another donut. (Now, if they had been maple bars that may have been different all together. Mmmmm.....maplie goodness...

I did finish - and not last. You can see the results here, but I finished in 77:57 Minutes, and ate 3 donuts so I ended up at 68:57 Minutes total. There are two schools of thought on this race - either race fast, or eat many donuts. The winner actually took 71 minutes to ride, but shoved down 25 freaking donuts to end up with a time of -3:47 minutes!!! (Yes, that is negative!!!) Amazing feat. At any rate - I will for sure be trying to better my time next year.