It was another successful Guinness World Record attempt at the annual Cradlepoint partner conference. This one wasn’t quite as hard as last year (most juggling backcrosses in one minute), but it wasn’t nearly as easy as I expected. It turns out that the force of throwing a hot dog sausage 100 feet is enough to destroy a typical hot dog bun.

Fortunately, Jake Smith and I spend the morning practicing throwing and catching hot dogs in buns in sunny San Diego (rather unsuccessfully, I might add, much to the delight of the hovering seagulls). I made a trip to the store to Trader Joes to secure studier buns and Michelle O. made sure the dogs were provided (thank you!).

The previous record was just shy of 69 feet. We broke it on our very first try much to our surprise. We market it out and decided we’d see if we could beat it. About 10 throws later we got our best result at 105 feet 4 inches! It had to be a clean catch and not touch anything except the bun after leaving Jake’s hand.

It also had to be cooked, be over 5.5 inches (and less than 7), and take place on level ground.

I hope Mark Brunell doesn’t mind losing this record (I doubt it as he has a Super Bowl ring…) It was great to hear world champion surfer Shaun Tompson today and have him at the event.

Thank you to all who made this possible including Jake Smith (congrats on your first GWR!), Stoney, Mary, Chris, Mauricio, Ken, Eric, Michelle, Jessica, Jen, Alex, Cradlepoint, and several more!