Constable runs barefoot for 24 hrs
Assam police constable Abhijeet Baruah on Tuesday entered the Guinness Book of World Records by running barefoot for more than 150-km in 24 hours in Jorhat.
The 22-year old constable achieved the feat Tuesday afternoon at 3:43 pm and ran 156-km and 200m till 4:00 pm.
The run was flagged off on Monday at 3:56 pm by the Indian observer for the Guinness Book of World Records B K Chandrasekhar Tiwari at the approach to the Tarajan bypass on the western outskirts of Jorhat town.
The run concluded at the same spot from where it began and after Baruah completed it, he ran upto a nearby temple and offered his prayers before being whisked away to the hospital. The route included running to and from along the Tarajan Bypass on the eastern outskirts 19 times, the distance from one flank to another being 10-km. The route was marked every 100 metres in accordance with the guidelines of the global records body.
Tiwari, who also represents the Indian Book of Records, said, “The record will be first of its kind in the world, as the Guinness Book of World Records does not have any record of any individual running such a distance barefoot for 24 hours.”
He said the entire documentation and video and still photo recordings of the event would have to be sent to the London-based headquarters of the organisation, which, after detailed analysis and study, will decide whether Baruah had actually made the cut or not. Members of The Great Run Club, a body formed with Jorhat MLA Rana Goswami as president to promote the event.
