‘Joggler’ fame grows with World Record attempt

Lieutenant (Navy) Michael-Lucien Bergeron juggles whereas making an attempt to set a Guinness World Report in Joggling at a distance of 10 kilometres at Canada Video games Place in Charlottetown, P.E.I., July 9. Picture: Carrie Gregory

Peter Mallett 
Workers Author

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A Fleet-footed joggler of the Canadian Naval Reserves has struck once more, this time as a possible new world document holder.

Lieutenant (Navy) Michael-Lucien Bergeron ran a 10-kilometre race whereas juggling in 34 minutes 47 seconds at Canada Video games Place observe and subject facility in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on July 10. The time will formally be a world document as soon as confirmed by Guinness World Data in 4 to eight weeks.

“It feels fairly good to probably be the quickest on the earth at joggling over 10 kilometres,” mentioned Lt(N) Bergeron.

Lt(N) Bergeron is already a confirmed Guinness World Data holder for Quickest Half Marathon, which he set in Toronto in 2018.

Lt(N) Bergeron is a full-time Naval Warfare Officer at HMCS Queen Charlotte in Charlottetown. The athletic feat is understood within the observe and subject world as ‘joggling’, which with three commonplace juggling balls suspended in midair.

He was satisfied he had already crushed the standing 10-km document for joggling in 2018 with a time of 35 minutes 36 seconds. Nevertheless, he didn’t qualify due to the variety of witnesses and the observe he ran on. This time, he ran on a regulation observe and made positive he had video, photos, and witness stories, and an official report from an authorized timer to seal the deal.

Lt(N) Bergeron had already gained a lot notoriety at CFB Esquimalt, when on June 18 he gained the 2022 Navy Run five-kilometre race with the quickest time of 17 minutes 3 seconds, additionally whereas joggling.

His soon-to-be world document garnered each native and nationwide media consideration, and included a section on CBC’s The Nationwide information broadcast on July 12.

“I’ve obtained loads of suggestions and congratulations, and have spent the final three days answering questions from numerous media retailers throughout the nation in each English and French,” he mentioned. “I by no means thought it could blow up this massive.”

Lt(N) Bergeron first started working when he was 13, and realized learn how to juggle when he was in highschool. He says he didn’t mix the 2 actions till a college good friend dared him. He then set a purpose to juggle in an actual race, which he achieved in 2014 throughout the five-kilometre Navy Run in RisePEI. He completed in fourth place with a time of 19 minutes 47 seconds and has not seemed again since.