On September 19, 2021, tens of thousands of runners participated in a remote 10k in pursuit of the Guinness World Records™ "Most users to complete a remote 10 km in 24 hours" record. Sean, a handful or friends, and I were among them. Many of our times weren't much to sniff at, but all together, we got to be a part of something kind of special. Oh yeah! And we broke the record. 🙂
As for Sean and me, we just did our part running our miles up and down Las Vegas Blvd that hot, fall morning.
For those who might otherwise ask, though a lot of participants wound up buying medals and other items to commemorate the achievement, this was a free event to partake in, and the digital certificates we received for successfully breaking the record were more than sufficient mementos for us. This didn't feel fractionally as personally significant to Sean and me as breaking the rhythm game marathon record back in 2013 or as any number of other personal accomplishments felt at the time, and most things we do feel more trivial after the fact anyway (or to me, anyway), so I never got around to posting about this at the time (it's actually January 2022 as I'm typing this), but I'm learning to appreciate and value the power of teamwork and recognize that what we can achieve together is at least as worthy of celebrating as each of our individual contributions, so yay! 🎉
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