October 7, 2025 • 1 min
A story about Lego Records
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From around the globe, from here and there, from hither
and thither, from inside and out. This is M Parnell's
Annals of Newness.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This and Yahoo News. There was an unforgettable experience, Gabriel
Wall told reporters in christ Church, New Zealand, and I'm
now so proud I have pushed myself to new limits.
The three hundred kilograms of lego we used were donated
by a charity and were placed along a single lane
of an athletics track. I ran with a wider stance
than normal so I could stay balanced on the track,
(00:39):
and although I had a little stumble at one point,
I quickly caught myself made it to the end in time.
I now hold a record for running the one hundred
meters barefoot on lego bricks, with a time of twenty
four point seventy five seconds. Speaking several weeks after her
world record run, she observed, my feet are now looking
a lot prettier than they were a few days ago.
(01:01):
After the run. They were not looking nice at all.
There are a couple of lego palm trees in there,
and those really hurt palm trees are relaxing to lander,
but not to step on most of all the foot
damage I sustained, and one decent card from the run itself,
so I must have hit a sharp edge. There's been
those secret coaching, just years of midnight bathroom trips dodging
lego landmines left by my kids.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You've been listening to Ed Parnell's annals of news news,
fresh from his own annals. See you again soon,
From around the globe, from here and there, from hither
and thither, from inside and out. This is M Parnell's
Annals of Newness.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This and Yahoo News. There was an unforgettable experience, Gabriel
Wall told reporters in christ Church, New Zealand, and I'm
now so proud I have pushed myself to new limits.
The three hundred kilograms of lego we used were donated
by a charity and were placed along a single lane
of an athletics track. I ran with a wider stance
than normal so I could stay balanced on the track,
(00:39):
and although I had a little stumble at one point,
I quickly caught myself made it to the end in time.
I now hold a record for running the one hundred
meters barefoot on lego bricks, with a time of twenty
four point seventy five seconds. Speaking several weeks after her
world record run, she observed, my feet are now looking
a lot prettier than they were a few days ago.
(01:01):
After the run. They were not looking nice at all.
There are a couple of lego palm trees in there,
and those really hurt palm trees are relaxing to lander,
but not to step on most of all the foot
damage I sustained, and one decent card from the run itself,
so I must have hit a sharp edge. There's been
those secret coaching, just years of midnight bathroom trips dodging
lego landmines left by my kids.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You've been listening to Ed Parnell's annals of news news,
fresh from his own annals. See you again soon,
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