LONDON — When Jessica Anderson joined more than 40,000 runners for the 2019 London Marathon last week, she had a goal in mind: Break the Guinness World Record for the fastest woman to run the marathon in a nurse’s uniform. Guinness rejected the record because Ms. Anderson did not wear a dress, she said in an interview on Sunday. Ms. Anderson had run the London Marathon in blue, baggy scrubs — the uniform she wears as a nurse with the National Health Service — to raise money for her unit’s charity fund. “They said it had to be a white or blue dress, pinafore apron and white cap or it wouldn’t count as a record,” Ms. Anderson said in an Instagram message on Sunday. “I didn’t want to wear that, so I chose to wear my real uniform instead because the title of the record is ‘fastest marathon in a nurse’s uniform,’” she added.

Source: New York Times May 05, 2019 15:33 UTC