In our household, we’ve got a motto that “we have been made to do onerous issues,” (discovered from my buddies the Wonderling Household) and it’s at all times enjoyable to consider new challenges and adventures to do collectively. This motto has been our encouragement by private and household challenges from lengthy hikes to cliff leaping and pole vaulting to math issues (and every little thing in between).

This morning, that motto spurred on a enjoyable new problem… setting a world file!

Why A LEGO® Walking World File?

One among my targets for this 12 months was to set a world file, and understanding the significance of neighborhood, I knew I needed to aim it with different mothers…

This 12 months has been powerful for a lot of households, and mothers particularly, so I needed to consider one thing each enjoyable and humorous that I might do as a staff with some ladies in my neighborhood. As mothers, I noticed that we’ve got been coaching to set a Lego strolling world file for years with out even understanding it! How many people have had the expertise of a Lego to the foot whereas strolling throughout a room in the midst of the night time to get a fussy child, or whereas working throughout the home to reply the door or test the oven?

We have the expertise, and we’ve got the legos!

Between our staff of 5 mothers, we’ve got 19 children and effectively over 200 kilos of LEGOs®. We’d spent over 14 years (760 weeks) pregnant… how onerous might a jiffy of LEGO® strolling be? Seems… fairly powerful!

Making ready for the World File Try

Extra goes into a world file try than you may suppose! We began making ready in February and coordinating with GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® to ensure the occasion counted. Factor obtained much more sophisticated with journey restrictions and coordinating the ultimate try. All in all, right here’s what it took to get us prepared:

• eight months of planning
• 5 relay staff members (and 5 supportive husbands)
• three impartial witnesses
• 2 medical professionals for foot verification
• An official flat floor at a native observe facility
• a 10 meter observe manufactured from plywood and 2x4s (with roughly two ft of turnaround area on both facet)
• My dad serving to construct the observe
• 200+ kilos of legos
• Stay and official verification with Guinness World File workers in a number of nations
• 19 of one of the best cheerleaders and pit crew to throw legos again in that we might ask for (our children)
• Some superb buddies cheering us on
• A playlist of upbeat, motivational 80s music
• Meals for everybody: 2 big breakfast casseroles, a espresso cake, 48 muffins, 42 cups of espresso, 9 pizzas
• Slightly little bit of blood (from our ft), a lot of sweat, and (surprisingly) no tears!
• A minor hurricane (that didn’t straight hit us)

I couldn’t be extra grateful and proud to have these different superb ladies as buddies: Ashley, Savanna, Grace, and Cat. Not solely did they rise up early on a weekend to return stroll on LEGOs® with me, however they walked quicker and farther than I ever anticipated! I’ve at all times mentioned that mothers are one of the highly effective forces on this planet, and so they proved it this morning.

The Official World File Try

This morning for the try, all of us assembled about 90 minutes upfront of begin time. We’d constructed the observe the night time earlier than and it was able to go. To confirm the observe, we employed a skilled surveyor to formally measure and submit a report. Shortly after, a native physician and an EMT inspected our ft to ensure they weren’t coated in something or injured (but!).

We had three witnesses, Alex, Michael, and Zachary (all coaches or former athletes), learn by the six pages of official guidelines and obtained prepared with notebooks, clipboards, stopwatches and counters. One witness sat at either side of our 10 meter observe and one was within the center. The witnesses counted and introduced every lap and informed us how a lot time we’d been strolling. We needed to cowl not less than 1 km to be eligible for the file.

Our official try kicked off shortly after 9 AM and began sturdy at a tempo of about 12 seconds per lap. Every of us walked roughly 12 minutes and we wanted to cowl not less than 20 laps minimal per individual. We did that earlier than the midway 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 purpose was to stroll not less than 1 km and we walked over three km (over 2 miles!). Our children served as “pit crew” and threw the LEGOs® again on the observe in the event that they flew off whereas we have been strolling.

In Case You Have been Questioning

Sure, it hurts!

We all had bloody ft by the tip of the morning and didn’t wish to stroll for the remainder of the day. The primary few laps aren’t too dangerous and in some methods have been simpler than stepping on stray LEGOs® than occurs unexpectedly in our day by day lives. After the primary 100 meters or so, the ft begin to get actually uncooked and strolling will get more durable. By 10 minutes in, we every began to query why we’d determined to do that within the first place!

Our World File Outcomes…

The staff at Guinness World Information® was actually nice to work with and had an official adjudicator on name to confirm our try. After a few hours of ready on pins and needles (or effectively… LEGOs®), we obtained the official phrase that we’d set the brand new world file!

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 actually icing our ft!

What do you suppose? Would you ever voluntarily stroll on LEGOs?