About Chad Kempel

He doesn't just tell stories. He gives people vocabulary for what they've been feeling.

Father of seven. 4x Guinness World Records title holder. MA in Research Psychology. Five years lecturing at San Jose State University. Five years volunteering inside San Quentin State Prison. Based in Boise, Idaho.

A dad from Boise, Idaho, who pushed a quintuple stroller to four Guinness World Records titles — marathon, half marathon, 10K, and 1K — over six years. A man who missed the record by four minutes, then came back seven days later and set it. Someone whose stroller and sign are now behind glass in a museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He was slapped in a locker room as a teenager. He walked hallways alone. He got bad grades not because he couldn't but because he hadn't decided to yet, and watched classmates disappearing into things they couldn't climb out of.

He and his wife lost twin boys who lived less than an hour. He ran 100 miles nonstop — 31.5 hours — from his childhood home outside Oakland, south through San Jose, and north to the Golden Gate Bridge to survive the grief.

He taught math inside San Quentin State Prison for five years, unpaid, by choice. He counseled children with disabilities. He slept in his car and took sink showers at gas stations to make the commute work.

Then he decided. Graduated college. Earned an MA in Research Psychology. Taught psychology and statistics at San Jose State University for five years. He doesn't just tell stories — he gives people vocabulary for what they've been feeling.

Chad didn't set the Guinness World Record for fastest marathon pushing a quintuple stroller on his first try. He missed it twice — once by 46 minutes, once by four. Seven days after the second miss, he ran it again and set it. The arc below is the talk in three lines.
Feb 3, 2019
5:31:32 — missed qualifying by 46 minutes
Mar 24, 2019
4:49:29 — missed by 4 minutes
Mar 31, 2019
4:42:49 — Guinness World Records title
Every time is in a public race database. A student who Googles him after the assembly finds the same truth he told them in the gym.
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