Poulton’s effort was only recognised in the book of Guinness World Records after several others had tried and failed to beat his time. <\/p>\n
Yet it was only recently that Poulton realised he could get a certificate to honour the achievement.<\/p>\n
“About two years ago, having watched all the certificates being presented on Strictly Come Dancing within minutes of them achieving their record of a little few tap dances, I thought – I need one of those,” he said.<\/p>\n
Poulton applied for one online with no luck.<\/p>\n
He then sent a letter and was initially told he could not have a certificate because the record was achieved more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
“They eventually relented and very kindly, at no cost to me, provided me with the certificate,” he said.<\/p>\n
It now sits framed in his house alongside the stopwatch used to time his effort.<\/p>\n
Poulton’s record of 41 hours and 51 minutes was eventually broken after 37 years in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poulton’s effort was only recognised in the book of Guinness World Records after several others had tried and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-578546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}