Gloucester, Ma’s newest best friend from Gloucester, England just finished breaking the World Record for distance gone on a treadmill in a 7 Day stretch. Congratulations, Jamie McDonald….Adventureman.
See caption from Jamie’s Facebook Page below:
He’s done it!!!Jamie is now the (unofficial, until verified) world record holder of the @guinnessworldrecords record for the greatest distance covered in 7 days on a treadmill 💪💪💪
As Jamie said when he equalled the record though… records aren’t just there to be broken, they’re there to be SMASHED!!!
We had a crowd of 500+ here to watch him break the record – let’s have the same here for the finish at 1pm!
Please do keep donating atwww.superherofoundation.org/donate
For anyone who might imagine that the opportunity to run a bit, walk a bit, run a bit, and walk a bit in an enclosed area, protected by the elements, for 7 days is anything less of a monumental task than was running 210 marathons in the USA for 11.5 months ….. I can assure you… it was not.
Thanks to a YouTube live streaming feed and the social media prowess of the amazing Superhero Foundation team, every second of the past 7 days was available for viewing, cheering, supporting, and worrying. As they predicted in the beginning, it was a week that was full of very high highs….and very low lows.
With an average of 2-4 hours of sleep late each night….and a faster pace during the day to make up for slightly more sleep than originally estimated… Jamie nailed it. The end was not always easily visible though. In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, I dare say that Jamie was incredibly close to quitting. The pain he was in was palpable and it was hard to imagine he could recover from it. With an amazing amount of support from his physical therapist, Sylvia, and the one and only AdventureDAD (Don McDonald), Jamie somehow found the strength to persevere and plow ahead. He later said that the pain and inability to walk early that morning took him back to his childhood. With his mobility stolen at a young age and a long fight to get it back….he knew that this week, despite it all, he needed to find the strength to just keep moving.
And keep moving he did. Right past the old World Record and on to a new one.
At about 10:45 this morning, London time….and 5:45 our time, Jamie matched the previous record to much fanfare gathered in the plaza of the Cineworld Gloucester Quays
With a live band, a crowd of about 500 supporters, his dad, his mum, his amazing Anna McNuff (read all about how cool she is here), Sylvia, Ian, his phenomenal Superhero Foundation team, and many, many others…. Jamie just kept moving.
The old World Record stood at 517 miles….or about 833 kilometers. This morning Adventureman sealed the deal with a new record of 844 kilometers (still being made official).
To watch video highlights of this past week, or parts of his US Super Run (that recently ended in our very own Gloucester, Ma), or his run across Canada, or his 12 day marathon static cycling ride, OR his bicycle ride from Bangkok to Gloucester, England….. check out Adventureman’s YouTube channel HERE!
And….while you’re at it, please consider donating HERE
For starters, I highly recommend that you watch an oldie, but goodie….one of Jamie’s original trailers….here:
Good Morning Gloucester 