The world record for running a half marathon (13.1 miles) is, for men, 56 minutes and 51 seconds.That's for running with shoes. What if you add a difficulty modifier, such as wearing stilts? That's what Belgian athlete Jonathan Engels did. On April 26 of this year, he ran in the Skylux Half Marathon in Kortrijk, Belgium while he had 3 foot 1 inch stilts strapped to his legs.Guinness World Records says that Engels had to engage in 7 months of int…
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