Diabetic builder becomes fastest man to run a mile in a pool
Posted: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
A construction worker who was diagnosed with life-threatening type 2 diabetes is celebrating becoming the fastest man on the planet to run one mile in a swimming pool, ITV News reported. Adam Lopez, 37, completed the challenge at Nuffield Health Norwich Fitness & Wellbeing Gym in Norwich, shaving more than four minutes off the previous record that was set in Baghdad, Iraq. It took Lopez 35 minutes and 24 seconds to run the 64 lengths - a time that will now need to be ratified by Guinness World Records. The builder vowed to turn his life around after being told by doctors during a work medical that his blood sugar levels were dangerously high. "My mmol reading was 148 [the international standard unit for measuring the concentration of glucose in the blood] and I was told it was life-threatening," he said. "It's now come down to 16 mmol. It just makes you look at life so differently when somebody tells you that your life is in danger." Lopez decided to apply to break the record after being approached by a fellow swimmer who was impressed at how quickly he was able to walk lengths of the pool. Tuesday's attempt was timed by two people, with a surveyor also measuring the pool to ensure the record was valid. Lopez's primary motivation was to raise money to buy specialist equipment for a 5-year-old girl who was diagnosed with a severe muscular disorder when she was just nine months old.
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