The Guinness world record for the most number of museum visits in a day has been broken by a Briton.

Ben Melham, 42, visited 42 museums in London, England in less than 12 hours, 11 more museums than the previous record set by Indians Sujoy Kumar Mitra and Swaroop Dawrani last year, BBC reports.

On 25 October, using a kick scooter, Melham started at 9:03 a.m. by visiting East London’s Museum of the Royal Pharmaceuticals Society, and finished at 7:58 p.m. at the Royal Academy of Arts in Central London, the Guinness World Records confirmed in January.

The other museums Melham visited were the Fusiliers Museum, Royal Armouries, Tower of London, London Mithraeum, Bank of England Museum, Guildhall Art Gallery, Museum of Methodism, Barbican Art Gallery, Charterhouse Museum, Museum of the Order of St. John, Islington Museum, Postal Museum, Charles Dickens Museum, Foundling Museum, Canal Museum, British Library, People’s Museum Somers Town, Wellcome Collection;

Grant Museum of Zoology, Petrie Museum, Cartoon Museum, British Museum, Camera Museum, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Hunterian Museum, Museum of Freemasonry, Bow Street Police Museum, London Transport Museum, Courtauld Gallery, British Optical Association Museum, Benjamin Franklin House, National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery, Household Cavalry Museum, Churchill War Rooms (Imperial War Museums), Royal College of Music Museum, Science Museum, Clockmakers’ Museum, Natural History Museum, and Victoria and Albert Museum.

Meanwhile, Ashley Paulson, 43, of St. George, Utah, USA, was among 44 runners who completed the first edition of the annual Great World Race (GWR) from 14 to 20 November.

The professional athlete, coach and trainer finished third among 15 women runners that participated in the seven straight days of marathons, one in each of the seven continents.

Paulson was the fastest woman in the first leg of the GWR held in Wolf’s Fang, Antarctica. From there, runners next raced 42 kilometers each in Cape Town, South Africa; Perth, Australia; Istanbul (Asia and Europe sides), Turkey; Cartagena, Colombia; and Miami, USA.

Paulson added the seven GWR runs to the more than 100 marathons she has completed since the age of 19. She also has under her belt finisher medals for over 25 Ironman triathlons, two ultra triathlons, and four 100+ mile races, according to the New York Post. WJG @tribunephl_wjg