{"id":323982,"date":"2016-10-18T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2016\/10\/18\/man-sets-world-record-as-he-paddles-pumpkin-26-miles\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:05:00","slug":"man-sets-world-record-as-he-paddles-pumpkin-26-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/10\/18\/man-sets-world-record-as-he-paddles-pumpkin-26-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Sets World Record As He Paddles Pumpkin 26 Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A man in Norway has set a new world record by paddling a pumpkin for 26 miles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/pumpkin30.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for man paddles pumpkin\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rick Swenson<\/strong> set sail from Grand Forks early Saturday morning, trying to break what he thought was an eight-mile world record for longest distance floated in a pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We got about seven and a half miles in, thinking it was eight and we got a text that somebody had broken it at 15 a week ago. And that was completely\u00a0<\/em><i>demoralising<\/i>,\u201d said Swenson.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Swenson, he had a sturdy pumpkin and had planned to float further than that, nearly 26 miles down the Red River to Oslo, Norway\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>Swenson completed his journey 13 hours and 40 minutes after launching from Grand Forks, and crushed the recently set record by over 10 miles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>When we got to Oslo, we had a really nice welcome. There were between 30 and 40 people there<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Swenson credits his moral support, a small group of family and friends who trailed behind him in boats, as the reason he was able to make it the full way.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201c<em>It was getting boring towards the end. Especially when we got towards Oslo it kind of slowed down and there was no wind. I mean it was beautiful, but you knew you were getting towards the end and you didn\u2019t want to stop and it was starting to get really boring<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p><center\/><\/p>\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0909255462614293\" data-ad-slot=\"3107445395\" data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Norway has set a new world record by paddling a pumpkin for 26 miles. Rick Swenson set sail from Grand Forks early Saturday morning, trying to break what he thought was an eight-mile world record for longest distance floated in a pumpkin. \u201cWe got about seven and a half miles in, thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Man Sets World Record As He Paddles Pumpkin 26 Miles - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/10\/18\/man-sets-world-record-as-he-paddles-pumpkin-26-miles\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Man Sets World Record As He Paddles Pumpkin 26 Miles - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A man in Norway has set a new world record by paddling a pumpkin for 26 miles. 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