My Rides: 151 Sims Sugarboard 146” Burton Dominant snowboard 2 (10’ circumference) Betty Hoops® taped together with gaffer tape. This adds friction & keeps hoop from sliding as I run. The weight of 2 hoops is needed to hold the centrifugal force while matching the downhill speed. Sports Bio • 2007 Hoop/ran the Bolder Boulder [...]

Team Hoop Breaks their World Record in 2006! May 29th, 2006 7:30am was the first time that Team Hoop would meet & practice. This was 1 hour before our start time. Our schedules were just to busy to have group trial runs prior to the race so I hoped that the team would understand the [...]

Betty breaks previous record! Betty Hoops does it AGAIN! Betty Hoops again ran the BolderBoulder 10K Road Race in 1:14:48.71 while hula hooping. She beat her previous world record. The BolderBoulder was the largest ever, with 54,040 entrants.  See the video here. Catherine, Michael’s girlfriend, offered the team to stay in her house in downtown [...]

We knocked almost 10 minutes off our time & the hoop didn’t drop once! This could not be done without the kindness of everyone in the race. I apologize to any racers’ who might have been inconvenienced by our team. The support from the racers & people on the sidelines was again outstanding & I [...]