Four records. Seven children. Thirty years of evidence.

The fastest marathon pushing a quintuple stroller, 4 hr 42 min 49 sec, at the Modesto Marathon on March 31, 2019. Chad missed the qualifying time twice before setting it on the third attempt, seven days after coming up four minutes short. At left, his brother in the “Godfather Support” vest Chad made for him.

The fastest half marathon pushing a quintuple stroller, 2 hr 19 min 55 sec, at the Oakland Running Festival on March 20, 2022, pushing roughly 240 pounds of stroller and four-year-old children.

The fastest 10 km pushing a quintuple stroller, 1 hr 4 min 52.9 sec, in Garden City, Idaho, on July 20, 2019. The family’s first record set in Idaho.

Marathon, 10 km, half marathon and 1 km, all set pushing a quintuple stroller between 2019 and 2023. Every time, date and location is printed on the certificate and listed in the Guinness World Records database.

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The five-seat stroller that carried the children through all four record attempts, photographed before it shipped to Guinness World Records. It is now displayed with the sign at the Guinness World Records museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The hand-made “Anything Is Possible” sign with bibs from the Modesto Marathon, the Oakland Running Festival half marathon and the Idaho 10K. Photographed before shipping to Guinness World Records.

Chad finishes Ironman Canada in Penticton, British Columbia, on August 28, 2011, in 15:18:36, carrying the sign he made for his father. It was the first time the sign crossed a finish line, eight years before the first record.

The Kempel family on the field at Eagle High School minutes after the fourth record, July 29, 2023.

Chad with all seven of his children, including quintuplets born January 11, 2018, at 27 weeks and 3 days, each under three pounds, after 73 days in the NICU.

The whole family after finishing the Muddy Dash obstacle race on July 12, 2025. The children who were given little chance of survival now run races of their own.

Chad speaks to high school students about naming what they carry and doing something about it. Three signature talks: Anything Is Possible, The Weight You’re Carrying, and I Walked the Hallways Alone.

Each talk hands students one specific thing to do next, from writing one sentence tonight to sitting with one person tomorrow.

Black T-shirt and jeans, the way he dresses to speak at a school.

Keynote youth speaker, 4x Guinness World Records title holder, father of seven. MA in Experimental Psychology, San Jose State University, where he taught psychology and statistics for five years. Based in Boise, Idaho.

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