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Tour de Donut registration open

Registration is under way for the 2007 edition of the Tour de Donut bicycle "race" in Staunton, Ill.

This, folks, is the original Tour de Donut, not the copycat event down in Texas that claims the same name nor other similar events put on in other parts of the country. This is the Tour de Donut that is the subject of the documentary film "Tour de Donut: Gluttons for Punishment."

If you sign up before June 30, the fees are $20 for single riders and $40 for tandem riders. After June 30, the fees are $30 for single riders and $50 for tandems. There is no day-of-ride registration.

Not only that, you have to sign up for the event online. The Boeing Employee Bicycle Club is not offering mail registration this year.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept of the Tour de Donut, it's a 32-mile timed event. For each doughnut eaten, you get 5 minutes off your time. You can learn about the origins of the race