Guiness World Record Book

[UniBrier]

I looked through the new "bookstore" hard cover Guiness World Records
and found the following unicyling records mentioned.

Longest Trip: Lars Clausen's cross the country and back journey from
this year.

Longest 24 hour distance: Lars Clausen again, I think it was 202
miles.

Highest Unicycle: The Steve McPeak 100+ footer.

Most jump rope skips in a minute: Amy Shields of TCUC.

Fastest 100 Meter: Peter Rosendahl.

Fastest across America: 'Akiro Matsushima' (http://tinyurl.com/39f4y) -
23 days from Newport, OR to Washington DC.


The only "new" records were Lars'. I only had a scrap of paper with me
to write on so I didn't take down any additional detail.


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[john_childs]

UniBrier wrote:
> *Fastest across America: 'Akiro Matsushima' (http://tinyurl.com/39f4y)
> - 23 days from Newport, OR to Washington DC.
> *

Following your link the other thread and then on to 'John Foss' Faster
Stronger Higher page' (http://www.unicycling.org/btdt/fhs.html) I see
different data for Akiro's ride.

John Foss' page says this:
> Akira Matsushima, of Japan, gained a Guinness record by riding from
> Newport, Oregon, to Washington DC - a total of 5248 km (3261 miles)
> between July 10 and August 22, 1992.

That is 43 days, not 23. Is the data in Guinness correct? Or maybe you
wrote down the wrong info?

3261 miles in 43 days makes for an average of 75.8 miles per day. I'm
sure he had a couple of 100 plus mile days. Doing that trip in 23 days
would be a super-human effort needing to average 141.8 miles per day!


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[johnfoss]

john_childs wrote:
> *That is 43 days, not 23. Is the data in Guinness correct? Or maybe
> you wrote down the wrong info?*
Guinness has been known to make errors:

1. For the last two years before I had my 100m record in there, they had
Floyd Crandall's name as "Floyd Grandall." It was correct before that.

2. One of the 4 years I was listed for the 100m, the index was wrong
indicating my record was on a different page (paperback only). This
caused great confustion at the elementary schools where we did shows,
when we told kids they could look me up in the school library!

3. I really should have been listed for only 3 years. In 1992 my 100m
record was listed just down the page from Peter Rosendahl's newer,
faster record.

It's nice to see some more unicycle records in the Guinness Book!


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