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Go with the Donut!

On Sunday morning, I had the privilege of being interviewed for a documentary about the Tour de Donut. Steve Kelly and Jim Klenn are putting together a little film for KDHX-TV, the community and public access arm of the St. Louis-based Double Helix Corp. and sister media outlet of KDHX-FM.

I am much more comfortable being the interviewer than the interviewee. I was worried about this because my previous two experiences with television weren't very good. The first was an effort to do a show about restaurants for ECTV, the educational and government access channel for the city of Edwardsville, Ill. That died after one taping because I just didn't have the skills to do a show. The second was an appearance on KSDK-TV's "Today in St. Louis" to promote the Gateway Council of Hostelling International and the Tour de Stooges. I did fine when I was talking about the Stooges, but I choked while trying to promote the other events. Doing the taping live before 7 a.m. didn't help.

But this experience was much better. Steve and Jim set up the lighting and camera in the living room and took steps to make me feel at ease, for example, looking at Jim, who was asking the questions, instead of looking at the camera. And assurances that the ums and uhs would be edited from the final tape helped.

We discussed the history of the Tour de Donut, strategies for winning the "race" and even a little bit about this Web site. I guess the most interesting question Jim had for me was what was the most disgusting thing I've seen on the Tour de Donut.

While I've never seen anyone throw up their doughnuts, I've heard it's happened. But I can't think of a much more disgusting sight than taking off your sweaty cycling gloves, grabbing two or three sticky glazed doughnuts, smashing them together and putting them in your mouth.

I am looking forward to seeing how the film turns out. I hope Steve and Jim are successful in tracking down the other co-founders of the ride because it will make for fascinating television.

Roger 1 comments 10:48 AM

Comments:

hey man,
i rode the tour de donut last year for the first time - and lost some of mine along the way. i knew i had a shot at winning if I ate 20 and came under 2 hrs, but the last 2 donuts and last 10 miles all alone in the wind did me in. I got 3rd - Ryan Winningham. I threw up while riding. I just hung my head to the side at about mile 22. Then, I guzzled gatorade afterwards...bad idea. Some people in the bathroom had a good laugh at my expense. So, here's another barf story.
winninghams@gmail.com

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