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Stuart Wridley - Source: ONE News
A Lower Hutt man has set a new world record for non-stop 10-pin bowling.
Stuart Wridley started bowling at 5.00pm Sunday at the Lower Hutt Strike Entertainment Centre and broke the record just after 5pm Friday after bowling for 122 hours.
Wridley has gone for days without a decent sleep while bowling his way to the record.
"Tattoo Stu" was determined to beat the old record by two hours but at times his supporters thought he would not make it.
"There's been some real rough patches...had to call mum in a couple of times."
Wridley's mum Linda kept turning the bowling balls so he could conserve energy but she says at one stage he got disorientated and couldn't figure out how to get his fingers in the ball.
Wridley was entitled to five minute breaks every hour and by saving them up managed four 20-minute catnaps.
He had a masseuse to soothe his feet and a nutritionist put him on barley sugars to keep his sugar levels up.
Wridley charged people to play against him to raise money for children with cancer.
"I'm exhausted and rough but these kids go through a hell of a time," he says.
