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Guinness certifies two locals for record visiting every MBTA subway stop

By adamg on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 11:22am

Boston Magazine reports the certification came today for a marathon T trek of seven hours, 29 minutes and 46 seconds in August.

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By Kinopio on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 11:52am.

I bumped into Adham Fisher yesterday on the orange line, who previously held this record. He was trying to set the record again yesterday. Plus with new orange and red line trains coming eventually the record will probably be broken soon if it hasn't already.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-oxfordshire-42721785/adham-fisher...

By Kapil on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 12:28pm.

Do the two fat guys with beards and cowboy hats riding the mopeds still hold that record?

By Gary C on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 1:02pm.

As a kid, I'd buy the Guinness Book every year and these guys were always in there.

IMAGE(http://www.cojoweb.com/McCrary%20Twins.jpg)

By amanda on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 1:35pm.

me too! I was fascinated with the Guiness Book when I was a kid. I remember those twins. And the people with the curly fingernails

By fungwah on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 1:42pm.

Each more surprising than the last

https://twitter.com/deadhomers/status/843096097417576448

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 11:49pm.

Fun Fact: their weight ballooned after a measles infection damaged their pituitary glands.

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/60at60/2015/8/1978-heaviest-twi...

By anon on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 12:44pm.

Poorly written headline

By Chris N on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 12:50pm.

I think anybody that can wherever they're going on the MBTA in under 8 hours deserves an award.

By anon on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 1:31pm.

n/t

By schneidz on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 2:50pm.

green line extension ?

By OriginallyFromDotParker on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 3:01pm.

I wonder if they'd ever try this with the buses, what with them being "MBTA superfans" and all.

By Waquiot on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 5:38pm.

There are too many lines and a lot of rush hour only runs. Miles on the MBTA has done just about all of them, and now he’s going statewide.

By OriginallyFromDotParker on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 6:21pm.

are listed in this Patch article:

https://patch.com/massachusetts/worcester/10-guinness-book-world-records...

By Rob on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 8:43pm.

Good for them!

"A complex logistical challenge"?

Really, Boston Magazine? I realize it's a happy little offbeat fluff piece, but "complex logistical challenge" is overselling it.

Come to some sort of basis for start location & start time, and decide how to minimize time spent on changes & overlaps. There are only four lines, each of which crosses two or three others, and eleven end points.

By Rob on Sat, 03/23/2019 - 9:30pm.

I wonder how much more difficult it would be to do it if they chose the "wrong" sequence and if the Guiness people were really persnickety about the definition (especially in older days):

We're sorry, the record category is shortest time to complete a full system ride without exiting the system*. You were recorded paying an exit fare (and re-entering) at Braintree on the Red Line. Fail.

*When you think about it, "not exiting the system" would be part of the definition. Otherwise a person could save time eliminating repeats of in & out the full length of a branch by hoofing it between, say, Reservoir & Cleveland Circle, or Cleveland Circle & Chestnut Hill Avenue; or having somebody waiting to drive them between Lechmere & BHCC or Lechmere & Kendall.