Sports record in times of COVID! An emerging measure turned into creativity

Abstract

This article aims to publicize the event held by the 76 -year- old ultramarathon runner Carlos Humberto Argueta López, which he held in a reduced space and confinement on September 14, 2021, as a tribute to the victims of the Covid pandemic-19 and the staff on the front lines in hospitals, health center and people who care for sick family members at home. The activity took place on a track installed in his own home, measuring three meters and twenty centimeters long and one meter and twenty centimeters wide, which became the smallest track in the world and on which, 50 kilometers in a time of eight hour and fifty minutes, according to the records of the judges. The work presents the way in which he planned the training, the development of the activity the search for recognition to be recognized by the Guinness Book of Records. To carry out the work, an interview was conducted with the athlete, the way in which the training cycle was planned and the main moments of carrying out the activity are presented. As the main conclusion of the work, it can be established that any activity that is thought, planned, organized and executed in any sports activity, regardless of age, conditions, resources and the place where it is carried out, since the event is in process of being included in the Alternative Records of Germany.