Getting into Guinness by Larry Olmsted

Author:Larry Olmsted
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

A fifteen-minute break must be taken after every eight completed hours of the record-breaking activity. This is a standard medical safety rule Guinness has incorporated into most of its marathon record attempts. However, as Ashrita Furman found to his chagrin, when he thought he had already broken the pogo stick jumping record for the first time, these fifteen minutes cannot be accumulated. You cannot skip one and then take a half-hour nap after sixteen hours.

I was to maintain a “logbook” recording the start and finish of play, times of all rest breaks, and changes of casino personnel.

Officials of the game’s governing body had to be present at all times, and had to ensure that the rules of the game were followed. No such official could be used to satsify this monitoring requirement for more than four hours per session. Each official had to sign in and sign out of the logbook.

In addition, I needed to have two independent witnesses on hand at all times. Like casino officials, they had to rotate and never work more than a four-hour shift, and had to sign the logbook duly. The witnesses couldn’t be relatives of mine nor be under age eighteen.

Finally, the zinger: I needed a licensed and practicing member of the medical profession overseeing the record attempt in its entirety. Once again, the doctors or nurses had to rotate in four-hour shifts, and sign the book. They also could pull the plug: if it was their professional opinion that I should quit, I was to stop immediately.

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