Posted on 09/15/2003 8:55:59 AM PDT by bedolido
PUYALLUP, Wash. (AP) -- To say their butts were sore would be an understatement.
Brandi Carbee and Natalie Svenvold of Bellingham set a world record for teeter-tottering on Sunday - 75 hours after they plopped down for the challenge.
"It's kind of like being drunk," Carbee, 31, said on Saturday, around the time they made it past the 50-hour mark.
"Last night, somehow I thought I was in California," said Svenvold, 24, a Western Washington University student who's expecting to graduate this winter with a degree in physical education.
Carbee, a Western grad who now coaches sprints and hurdles for the university's varsity track and field team, talked Svenvold into the task.
They started teeter-tottering at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Puyallup Fair's Fitness for Family Life Exhibit. They established their record after 24 hours, but kept at it so their record would be hard to beat.
On Saturday afternoon, Svenvold was taking a power nap, lying flat on her end of the teeter-totter, as Carbee answered a slew of questions from curious onlookers.
For the record:
-They got five-minute bathroom breaks every four to five hours.
-They didn't beat a record that already existed. Guinness Book of World Records officials told them they had to teeter-totter for at least 24 hours to make it in the book.
-And yes. It was tiring. Very, very tiring.
Puyallup Fair officials said the weary pair slipped off the teeter-totter at 1 p.m. Sunday, heading straight to bed.
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