NORTH Somerset marathon runner Ben Karthauser is included in the new Guinness World Records book.

The 2026 volume of the long-standing annual is in stores now – and features the amazing exploits of runner Ben.

For at the 2025 London Marathon, in April, 48-year-old Ben set a world record by running the 26-miles in the fastest time for a male with Parkinson’s disease.

He completed the course around the capital in a time of 3hrs 4mins 49secs on April 27.

Elsewhere in the new book are extraordinary achievements by the likes of painter Lưu Công Huyền, of Vietnam, who has set the world record for the Longest fingernails on a pair of hands (male), at a massive 594.45cm/19ft 6in in total).

Lưu Công Huyền, of Vietnam, whose fingernails measure 19ft 6in in total. Picture: Guinness World Records

Incredibly, he continues to create his colourful artworks despite the size of his nails.

And animal favourites also feature, like Derrick and Bambou, the record-breaking donkeys from Lincolnshire, and Steve ‘Banana Car Man’ Braithwaite, originally from the UK, who has the longest banana car in the world.

Steve Braithwaite drives the world’s longest banana car! Picture: Guinness World Records