{"id":999396,"date":"2022-02-21T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/watch-runner-takes-on-canadian-half-marathon-while-wearing-90-t-shirts\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T22:28:08","slug":"watch-runner-takes-on-canadian-half-marathon-while-wearing-90-t-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/21\/watch-runner-takes-on-canadian-half-marathon-while-wearing-90-t-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Runner takes on Canadian half marathon while wearing 90 T-shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Runner-takes-on-Canadian-half-marathon-while-wearing-90-T-shirts.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/8634986\/\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 21 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A runner in an Alberta half-marathon attempted a Guinness World Record by taking on the 13.1-mile course while wearing 90 T-shirts.<\/p>\n<p>David Eliuk ran Sunday&#8217;s Hypothermic Half Marathon in Edmonton while wearing 90 T-shirts in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record of 76 shirts, which was set by British runner David Smith in 2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hurt,&#8221; Eliuk told Global News after the race. &#8220;It feels great to be done. I had an amazing team behind me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eliuk said he trained for five months before the attempt, but still hit some unforeseen difficulties from the weight and constriction of his wardrobe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a lot of issues with constriction on my arms in the first lap and the crew was able to help me get through that,&#8221; Eliuk said.<\/p>\n<p>Eliuk said evidence from his attempt is being submitted to Guinness World Records for official recognition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were a lot of great stories that came out of yesterday&#8217;s race and mine was only one of them,&#8221; Eliuk said in an Instagram post. &#8220;Everyone should be proud of their individual accomplishments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 21 (UPI) &#8212; A runner in an Alberta half-marathon attempted a Guinness World Record by taking on the 13.1-mile course while wearing 90 T-shirts. David Eliuk ran Sunday&#8217;s Hypothermic Half Marathon in Edmonton while wearing 90 T-shirts in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record of 76 shirts, which was set by British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999396","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\/999396","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=999396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}