Month completed: September 2009

When I was growing up, we had the 1983 book of Guinness World Records.

In that book was a record for a lady who ate the most baked beans in one minute.

The conditions were that she had to eat them one at a time, and pick them up off the plate with a toothpick.

Being a baked bean fan, I thought this record seemed easy to break. I never broke it though.

But this book, which I loved reading cover to cover, spurned my interest in one day being part of a world record.

And finally, on the same day that I complete my half-marathon, I was also part of a world record.

That record was for the most people in one place dressed up as fruit. Bananas specifically.

There were over 200 of us there, and the world record was secured after we had huddled together for 15 minutes.

Strangely, that 15 minutes was spent doing stretches being run by two of the Gladiators from the UK TV Gladiators series. One of them was Doom (see below), who looked like he was quite keen to be surrounded by a bunch of bananas (yes, nice play on words, I know).

Next plan is a world record that I achieve on my own, but for now, I am proud to say that I am a world record holding banana.