A British mother gave standard race footwear the boot on Sunday, opting as a substitute to run Sunday’s Royal Parks Half Marathon in London in a pair of Wellington boots in a bid to set a Guinness World Document.

Aileen Raynos, who lives within the village of Cowfold in West Sussex, endured an agonizing slog to the end line at Hyde Park, finishing the course in a single hour, 55 minutes and 4 seconds, permitting her to say the primary official Guinness World Document for the quickest half-marathon run in a pair of rubber boots.

Raynos’s time falls safely throughout the two-hour-cutoff Guinness World Document officers advised her she must beat to ascertain the brand new race report.

Whereas Guinness World Information has by no means had an official pace report on the books for operating the space in wellies, it did just lately report the quickest marathon time run by a girl within the footwear. That report was set by fellow Brit Becky Lafford at this 12 months’s TCS London Marathon, who grew to become the primary particular person to carry that title after crossing the end line in 3:59:57.

Guinness World Information is reviewing Raynos’s half-marathon try as a part of the usual course of for ratifying her report.

Proud as she is to be blazing a brand new path within the weighty wellies, Raynos advised the Unbiased she’s not about to do a victory lap within the footwear.

“I’m not going to be carrying wellies for a very long time. My little toe is fairly blistered,” stated Raynos, who works in advertising at pet meals firm Purina. “Usually the legs would damage extra, since you push the muscle tissue extra, however my toes have been in ache. I don’t normally get blisters from trainers.”

Raynos stated she was advised by Guinness World Information that to qualify for the report, the rain boots she wore must be product of rubber or PVC and never altered in any manner for the race.

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She stated along with the acute ache they inflicted on her toes, the boots made her toes very popular, resulting from their lack of breathability, and their lack of cushioning made for some painful shins.

Regardless of these challenges, Raynos completed the half-marathon in a time that may have been respectable even in standard footwear. Her 1:55:04 landed her in 152nd place amongst 1,123 runners within the F40 division, and she or he completed within the high 27 per cent of the race’s subject of 16,000 runners.