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Samuel Finn’s body was sore in so many places on Sunday that he said it was easier to identify where he wasn’t sore. Little wonder: Two days earlier, he had done 5,234 chest-to-ground burpees in 12 hours and broken the Guinness world record for the hugely challenging exercise.

He did it to honour the memory and determination of his older brother, Cédric Finn, who died in 2017 of a rare form of cancer, a soft-tissue sarcoma, and to raise money for the fund for sarcoma research and care his family established at the McGill University Health Centre Cedars Cancer Foundation.

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By Sunday, the GoFundMe campaign he created for the event, burpees4ced, had raised nearly $58,000 — almost 50 per cent more than its $40,000 goal.

Initially, Samuel was training to beat a record of 4,689. But in late October, a record of 5,010 was set. By then, “training harder meant I would risk injury — and so at the end of the day, it was the mental game I had to up,” he said.