Guinness has just approved my record from July for fastest mile on an indoor climbing wall (male), officially at 1:42:57.95. For technical details and links to video, see my writeup from July.
Thinking about this made me realize just how much this was a team effort. I am grateful to everyone who made this possible, especially:
- My family for encouragement and patience with me over the summer as I trained for this.
- Benjamin Sadler doing the official measurements of the route, correcting for the angle of inclination.
- Mitchell Minyard and Libby Regnerus for being witnesses for the route measurement.
- Madelyn Hayden, Dominic Pruss and Gabriella Williams for being in charge of my safety during the attempt and/or outside-of-regular-Rock-hours training sessions.
- Rock staff for watching out for my safety during regular hours, for extending the route so that 112 climbs would be enough for a mile, and constant encouragement.
- Rich Eva and Libby Regnerus for spending 1¾ hours of their Saturday holding stopwatches to provide an official time.
- Mitchell Minyard and Gabriella Williams for witnessing the attempt and working hard to log the start and end times of each of 112 climbs.
- Gym management staff Rachel Burduroglu, Zac Huston and Cody Schrank for much encouragement, practical help, patience with many requests, and especially allowing me to use the facility outside of hours.
- The audience (notably including President Linda Livingstone and First Gentleman Brad Livingstone) for their great encouragement.
- All the members of the Baylor rock climbing community for being such a welcoming community over the past eight years, and having taught me pretty much all I know about climbing.
- Baylor Moody Media Lab for lending me equipment for recording the attempt.
- And Guinness World Records for patiently answering all my nitpicking questions and taking the time to review a massive amount of evidence in a fair and trustworthy way.
Congrats!
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ReplyDeleteYou did an amazing job. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteAs we say in Oz, you are a gun!
ReplyDeleteThanks, all!
ReplyDeleteBTW, someone without a conflict of interest might want to edit my wikipedia entry to reflect this. :-)