Guiness World Record Book

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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 - 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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Re: Guiness World Record Book

Following your link the other thread and then on to John Foss’ Faster Stronger Higher page I see different data for Akiro’s ride.

John Foss’ page says this:

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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Re: Re: Guiness World Record Book

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!