From a press release I read today about a guy attempting to break a record at the L.A. Marathon:
An attempt will be made, based on standards set by the Guinness World Records staff, for the “Heaviest Person to Complete a Marathon..” [Now why didn't I think to apply?? LOL]
The heaviest-finisher effort will be made by 40-year-old Kelly Gneiting of Ft. Defiance, Arizona, a three-time U.S. Sumo champion and former long-haul trucker, who actually completed the 2008 race in 11:52:11 on a whim. "A couple of buddies met me in Las Vegas and then we flew to Los Angeles," he said, noting that his friends filmed him during the race; he finished at 8:14p.m. “If you go to YouTube and enter my name and ‘marathon,’ there's a ten-minute film of me running. I completed the LA Marathon three years ago at 430 pounds, and will complete it again.” Currently weighing 410 pounds, the six-foot-tall Gneiting says he trains everyday, with a six-mile jog on Saturdays, in addition to walking a mile-and-a-half each way to his job as a statistician at the Ft. Defiance Indian Hospital.
The Guinness World Records requirements state that Gneiting must be weighted immediately before and immediately after the race and the entire race must be filmed. The current record is 275 pounds, and although Gneiting’s 2008 effort would have set the record, he didn’t apply for it. He said that the 2008 race “was the hardest day of my life,” but is more than ready for the 2011 challenge on the Stadium to the Sea course. And with a wrestler’s bravado, he growled that "I train at 7,000 feet on broken glass shards and cattle wire, so a few uppity hills into Santa Monica don't scare me.”
[OMG is he serious ??? Those uppity hills scare me plenty!!]
He expects to complete the race between 9-11 hours, jogging about half of the course and walking the rest.
[Oh Lord...and we wonder why L.A is full of potholes LOL !]
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