Sports Editor

The

Guinness Book of World Records can hold a powerful allure

for many people. Whether they choose to get in by wearing

a 50 pound beard of bees while playing hopscotch for

twelve straight hours or whether they choose to run a

relay race, their achievements are still commendable.

There are

100 new entrants in the book this week and they are all

from the area. Mike Mead, the cross country and track

coach at Clayton College and State University,

participated with 99 other gentleman over the age of 40

in a 100x1 mile relay. The group was assembled by the

Atlanta Track Club.

The team

finished the relay in 8:57:31, topping the previous mark

set by 9:04:02 by the Houston Area Road Runners. The

Atlanta crew was four minutes ahead of the pace after

their 12th runner and they never looked back.

"It

was fun to go after a world record and smash it,"

said Mead. Next up, the beard made of bees.

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