Right here at Canadian Operating, we love a very good working Guinness World Report–particularly when it’s claimed by a Canadian. And with regards to chasing down the world’s most area of interest working feats, no person is as devoted as Toronto’s Bridget Burns.
In 2025 alone, Burns added two extra Guinness World Data (GWR) to her resume, bringing her profession complete to 9. Her obsession with record-setting dates again to 2014.
Her newest data are each aviation-themed, impressed by her fascination with transportation in all kinds. “I’ve an curiosity in all areas of the transportation business, together with trains, boats and airplanes,” Burns informed Canadian Operating, explaining that she is a former Royal Canadian Air Cadet, took crusing classes as a young person and at the moment works within the passenger prepare business. “I now maintain GWRs in all of those industries.” She has additionally taken an curiosity in studying about notable pilots, equivalent to Sully Sullenberger.
Two data in a single month
On Sept. 21, impressed by a re-watch of the movie High Gun, Burns tackled the Canada Military Run half-marathon in Ottawa dressed as Maverick–a flight go well with, helmet and classic leather-based Corcoran soar boots. The Toronto native accomplished the race in 2:31:49, incomes the file for quickest half-marathon wearing a flight go well with (feminine).
Lower than a month later, on Oct. 19 on the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon weekend, Burns returned with one other aviation-themed file try, sporting black pants, a white shirt, epaulettes, a black tie, a hat and aviator sun shades to create a pilot costume. The runner shaved greater than 20 minutes off her half-marathon from a month earlier, clocking 2:08:23 to set a brand new file for the quickest half-marathon in a pilot uniform (feminine).
These runs didn’t mark her first makes an attempt at taking down transportation-related data; Burns additionally set the file for quickest half-marathon dressed as a sailor on the 2024 Toronto Waterfront Marathon. Her GWR web page states she continues to tackle these challenges to “increase consciousness for costumed half-marathons, particularly for these within the transportation industries of sea, land and air.”
A rising resume
Burns’ catalogue of GWRs at the moment lists 9 data:
- Quickest marathon dressed as a boxer (feminine)
- Quickest marathon dressed as a zookeeper (feminine)
- Quickest marathon dressed as Michael Jackson
- Quickest half-marathon dressed as a railroad engineer (feminine)
- Quickest half-marathon dressed as a zookeeper (feminine)
- Quickest half-marathon in motocross gear (feminine)
- Quickest half-marathon dressed as a sailor (feminine)
- Quickest half-marathon wearing a flight go well with (feminine)
- Quickest half-marathon in pilot uniform (feminine)
Her quickest time finishing a half-marathon in costume is 2:01:23, from her railroad-engineer try on the 2023 Toronto Waterfront Marathon.