I forgot to mention that a couple of weeks ago my friend Edit Berces emailed me these photos. Thanks to Edit for this and also she gave me some great help when I ran through Bratislava on my world run last summer. As you can see she is the female world 24 hour treadmill record-holder. :) Well done Edit who was also a great friend of mine during my competitive career. More important than any record I have always considered respect from fellow athletes to be infinitely more important. My 48 hour world treadmill record from the Longford marathon expo still stands. Most ultra runners in the know have little or no respect for Guinness World Records due to their many bizarre ratifications and their seemingly poor judgement within our sport. The ultra running community recognizes The Alternative Book of World Records as the official record compiler for the sport as they have more cop on and dont ratify cheats like Suresh Joachim who as you can see holds the GWR 24 hour. The Alternative Book of World Records is also the book the WRA World Runners Association recognizes due to their higher standard required for ratification which catches out more self-centered cheats. I know this man very well for I witnessed video footage of him holding the rails while breaking my original 48 hour record from 2003. Amazingly GWR said holding ( and by extension pulling oneself marginally off the belt dramatically reducing the effort required ) the treadmill rails was not against their rules!!!!! However any honest runner worth their salt say its cheating - rules or no rules - that is except for Joker Joachim, also a very high-profile American stunt runner and GWR, So it was with great pleasure I hammered his record running with an injury but highly motivated to get my record back not for me but for sport from a serial cheat! Immediately before that record attempt began and as soon as it ended this was announced. So at times like this it is so nice to still be included in the GWR book of world records :) Making this possible I have to thank my amazing crew man Alan Young and the Longford marathon race director Liam Fenelon and team for their wonderful help!! This record run left Joachim saying how sorry he was to have lost his record! Long live sport, honest athletes, crew, volunteers and race officials. My Kind Of People! :)
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:09:38 +0000
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