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High who, while attending Michigan

State University a year later, joined

the military reserves and was in the

Marines from 1994-2000, earning

the rank of E-5 Sergeant in Bridge

Company Alpha in Battle Creek –

delivered two world chin-ups records

between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7

p.m. on Friday, May 3.

First, he set a new Guinness world

record for chin-ups in an eight-hour

period of 3,800 – bettering the for-

mer record of 3,751.

And then continuing on for another

four hours, Solano established a new

world mark for chin-ups in a 12-hour

period with 5,107 – surpassing the

former mark of 4,649.

The world record achievements

came three years after Solano had

tried to set a world record for chin-

ups in a 24-hour period at his Biggby

franchise location on Capital Avenue

NE across from B.C.’s Bailey Park.

That situation didn’t come to frui-

tion, however, due to Solano suffer-

ing a severe right bicep injury that

Forty-nine-year-old Charles Solano, a chin-up world record holder for two time periods (right), is shown with his wife Jessica (left) and daughter Kaia (center) after accomplishing the feats on May 3. (Shopper News photo by Will Kowalski)

popped up and ended his attempt with several hours to go. But now, look up “world chin- up records” by doing a search on the internet, and the name Charles Solano of Battle Creek pops up not once, but twice. And Solano now has the official certificates from Guinness, which came to him through the mail recent- ly, to prove he’s No. 1 in the world chin-ups list for two time periods. ‘Surreal’ Feeling “It’s still pretty surreal what I accomplished, and I feel very grate- ful,” said Solano late last week while holding up the official Guinness certificates, again at his Biggby location in Springfield. “Setting those two world records, it’s just a sense of accomplishment for me. It gives me confidence and belief in myself that I can take on some pretty lofty goals and achieve them. And if what I did can inspire other people to accomplish difficult things as well, so much the better.” At the end of his 12-hour chin- ups performance in early May, after having unofficially (now officially) broke two world records, two com-

ments rang out in the air in the office area where he accomplished his feats

an office area where he could be
seen through windows both inside
the Biggby lobby and outside next
to the drive-up sign doing his one to
three to five chin-up reps per minute.
One comment was by Solano: “Not
too shabby!”
The other comment was by his
10-year-old daughter Kaia: “I love
you daddy” – after which Solano told
both his daughter and his wife he
loved them, too.
Those words were followed by a
group hug involving Solano, Kaia
and his wife Jessica – whom Solano
met while working at Kellogg’s after
leaving the military service in 2000
(with Solano then later opening his
first Biggby Coffee franchise in B.C.
in 2016 in the Wattles Park area).
The occasion, indeed, was a joyous
one.
“I had great support all around
for this. From my family, from my
friends, from a lot of people,” Solano
said. “I couldn’t have achieved this
without all that support.”
Solano’s world records came about
a year after he suffered a heart attack
while vacationing in the south. And
they came a day before he kept his
word by running in a 5K military
fundraiser with Kaia at his side.
Well, at his side for most of the
race.
“That 5K wound up going pretty
good,” Solano said. “My only real
goal was to not stop, and at times I
was down to almost a shuffle, but
my daughter Kaia ran it with me.
And that helped me keep my focus.
“And as far as finishing that 5K,
well, my daughter smoked me. She
did it in 30 minutes and I think I
did it in 35. But I didn’t stop. Just
like the chin-ups world records day,
the day before, I didn’t stop. I think
I was running on dopamine highs
during that 5K, and I think I’m still
experiencing dopamine highs every
day since then, for sure.”
Solano said he’s now “contemplat-
ing what’s next” in his life after set-

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