Everyone loves a day off but the fact of the matter is that most of us just spend them relaxing or catching up on errands because our lives are so hectic in the first place.

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Not 29 year old Gareth Murphy though, who decided to casually smash the 24 hour pub crawl record on his day off, stopping in at a whopping 56 drinking establishments in Cardiff back in February. He picked the city because there are 300 licensed bars within a 0.5 mile square radius so that he could achieve maximum efficiency whilst zipping around all the pubs and trying to break the record.

The biggest problem for him though was how much liquid he took on during the challenge, revealing that he needed to go to the toilet all the time and he felt bloated and gross for most of it as well:

I lost count of how many toilet breaks I took.

At the beginning it was minimal, once every 10 pubs say, but by the end, I think I was going once every two or three pubs.

The hardest part by far was the bloatedness of drinking so much. It didn’t help that I can’t make myself burp either.

It was a long, tiring day. The hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life.

It made all the hard work and preparation worth it. It feels great to achieve something like this.

You would probably think that Gareth would be pretty pissed after visiting 56 pubs too, but it turns out that you don’t even have to have an alcoholic beverage at each one of them to break the record and a soft drink will suffice. That doesn’t really seem in the spirt of a pub crawl does it, but having 56 drinks in 12 hour does sound like it would be somewhat of a challenge even if it was just orange juice and Coca Cola, so fair play to the guy I suppose. Would like to see someone try and do 56 pubs with a pint in each though – absolute carnage.

For more of the same, check out this 61 year old woman who went on a 17 year pub crawl to visit every Wetherspoons in the country. That’s commitment.