The Dream Team has gotten back together. Becky, Mike, David, Chris, and Dusty reemerge from a 1+ year hiatus to reclaim the first Guinness World Record’s title.
When we first broke the record for the fastest 20m flying disc relay for a team of 5, it stood at 8.74s seconds. We were able to pass it don’t the line of 5 and back in only 6.83 seconds knocking nearly 2 seconds off the record. In the past year, a team out of Japan surpassed our mark by less than a quarter second with a 6.6 second run. We had to work a bit harder this time, but we finished with a 5.47 second time shaving another full second off the record.
We almost didn’t do quite that well but on one of our record-breaking runs, the timer forgot to start the video the stopwatch was on (and with COVID rules, the stopwatch has to be on camera). We broke the record, celebrated, and were gathering the supplemental evidence showing the distance between each thrower when I noticed the camera wasn’t on.
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Josh felt pretty bad about not starting the camera, but the good news is it spurred us on to give it a few more tries. We improved our time even more for the one that counted.
The only real drawback is that the final throw from Mike to Becky (husband/wife) was a laser shot and it was all Becky could do to corral the throw. She pinned it between her hand and arm keeping the attempt valid but it totally bruised her upper arm. That right there sums up the perils of breaking a Guinness World Record with your significant other.
