{"id":1034650,"date":"2022-03-25T21:15:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T21:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/dad-sets-guinness-record-pushing-quintuplets-in-half-marathon\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T21:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T21:15:56","slug":"dad-sets-guinness-record-pushing-quintuplets-in-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/dad-sets-guinness-record-pushing-quintuplets-in-half-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad sets Guinness record pushing quintuplets in half-marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Dad-sets-Guinness-record-pushing-quintuplets-in-half-marathon.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"AOb5IIVGxRk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Father runs Oakland&#039;s half marathon with quintuplets\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AOb5IIVGxRk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 25 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A runner in a California half-marathon set a Guinness World Record when he completed the race in 2 hours and 19 minutes &#8212; while pushing his quintuplets in a stroller.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Kempel ran the half marathon at the Oakland Marathon in Oakland on Sunday while pushing a stroller containing his five 4-year-old children.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were saying, &#8216;Run faster dad!&#8217; and I&#8217;m just dying sweating and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t even know if I can go any farther,'&#8221; Kempel recalled to KIVI-TV. &#8220;I had forgotten how heavy it could be, especially when we&#8217;re going up a hill, even if it&#8217;s barely a hill at all, I&#8217;m basically full-on holding the whole thing up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kempel finished his 13.1-mile run in 2 hours and 19 minutes, beating the goal of 2 hours and 30 minutes set by Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m the first person doing it, but when you&#8217;re the first person to set a record, Guinness gives you a certain cut off and they gave me a cut-off of 2 hours and 30 minutes,&#8221; Kempel said.<\/p>\n<p>Kempel previously set Guinness World Records for running a 10k race and a full marathon while pushing the five children.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kempel said he believes he is finished trying to set Guinness World Records, but he is planning to run more races in the future &#8212; and he hopes his children will run alongside him.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 25 (UPI) &#8212; A runner in a California half-marathon set a Guinness World Record when he completed the race in 2 hours and 19 minutes &#8212; while pushing his quintuplets in a stroller. Chad Kempel ran the half marathon at the Oakland Marathon in Oakland on Sunday while pushing a stroller containing his five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1034651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}