A man attempting to break a Guinness World Record of most distance crawled had to stop after a few hours due to bleeding knees and sore knuckles.
Forty-eight year-old shipping and receiving clerk Tim James explained that the feat was intended for him to be able to leave "a nice little legacy for my ancestors to come across."
His track was laid out as mats around the inside of his office building, the Buford Lewis Printing Co. To reach the record, James needed to do 700 laps.
The crawl was intended for 35 miles, in 45 hours. The starting time was 5:30 pm Friday, and James expected to finish at around mid-Sunday.
At around 10:30 p.m. Friday, Tim's wife spotted the injuries that James had sustained, and insisted that he stop.
"I realized I hadn't gained very much ground in five hours, and I realized it was going to take ma a lot longer than I thought," Political Gateway quoted James.
The idea of breaking that particular record came to the aspiring clerk by recalling that as a former plumber, he spent a considerable amount of time crawling on all fours.
"I said, 'That's something I could probably actually do'," The Tennessean quoted James.
James had previously attempted to break the record, as he tried crawling on the corner of Harding Place and Nolensenville road. He stopped after 14 miles, as it began to rain and he had started to slip.
The record is currently held by two Colorado college students, whose 44-hour, 32.26-mile crawl put them through torrential rain, lightning and hail. Their crawl was in order to raise money for pediatric AIDS research.
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