It wasn't the physical pain. It wasn't the sleep deprivation. It was something different that finally got Aurora's George Hood to climb off his stationary bike and not get back on Monday morning.
"I am bored," Hood told his trainer, Preston Bokos, during the 177th -- and final -- hour of his Guinness world record ride at the Fry Family YMCA in Naperville. "I'm tired of always having to do things on this bike. I've literally been strapped to this bike for eight days."
Hood completed his epic ride at 7:30 a.m., after surpassing the record nearly two hours prior. A Guinness adjudicator, Danny Girton Jr., was on-site to officially notify Hood that he had broken the record, but the official time will be determined once Guinness officials finalize the paperwork, a process that normally takes eight weeks.
But Girton said he was going to do his best to have it completed by the end of the month, which is the deadline to be published in the annual Guinness Book of World Records. Hood's two-pronged goal was to be published and to raise money for the YMCA's Strong Kids program.
While he'll have to wait for the final word from Guinness, he left the building knowing he raised more than $30,000 for the program.
Check out some YouTube clips of Hood's final night posted by Mark Baron:
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