Canada’s Ben Pobjoy looks to break Guinness world record for most marathons run in a year of 239
The Mississauga, Ont., native has set out on a journey to break the Guinness world record for most marathons ran by a male in a year , held by American Larry Macon.
“That world where you have a steady paycheque, it’s really comfortable,” he told The Canadian Press. “But I just found there wasn’t much growth in it and to kind of cut myself out of that, throw myself into the world and just have that ultimate pressure where it’s fully on me to create something, it just felt like the high time.
“It’s being set up for this year and then my hope is that I can possibly grow this thing in other ways,” Pobjoy said. “For right now, the focus is just the business to get through this year and as to what it becomes thereafter, I think the future is unwritten.” As a “gag,” he paid five pounds to the Guinness Book of World Records to have it certified as a record in Ontario. Instead, he was told it was “too niche” and that he should go for the world record.
His journey as a runner began approximately a decade ago when he says he was “morbidly obese” and “super embarrassed” to go to a gym. He started out walking and, as he describes it, has become “like a real-life Forrest Gump kind of tale.”
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