{"id":125850,"date":"2024-10-22T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/?p=125850"},"modified":"2024-10-23T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T14:40:07","slug":"runner-chases-guinness-world-record-to-raise-awareness-for-eating-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningmagazine.ca\/the-scene\/runner-chases-guinness-world-record-to-raise-awareness-for-eating-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Runner chases Guinness World Record to raise awareness for eating disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race director Alan Brookes<\/strong> wasn’t mistaken when he called the Toronto Waterfront Marathon (TWF) weekend \u201ca weekend of records.\u201d On Sunday, 24 runners at the big-city race successfully chased Guinness World Records (GWR) and eagerly await ratifications of their achievements. One of the record-breakers was Toronto’s own Benet Avery<\/strong>, who took on the 42.2K course wearing a hospital gown to raise awareness of eating disorders.<\/p>\n

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In her second-ever marathon, the 24-year-old took on the challenge of beating the GWR for fastest marathon dressed as a hospital patient (female), running an official time of 3:28:22 and beating the record by nine minutes. The former record<\/a> stood at 3:37:20, set by Ireland’s Kate Maher\u00a0<\/strong>at the 2023 Berlin Marathon.<\/p>\n

Printed on the front of Avery’s hospital gown was “Running for a Guinness World Record, and to raise awareness and funds for eating disorders”.<\/p>\n

The inspiration behind Avery’s run was her own experience struggling with orthorexia nervosa<\/a>, an eating disorder characterized by an excessive preoccupation with eating healthy food. “I couldn’t run for a while,” Avery told Canadian Running<\/em>. “I wanted to show people that it’s possible to recover and to do hard things.”<\/p>\n

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