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61-year-old woman holds plank for 5 hours in quest for new world record

DonnaJean Wilde held a plank for five hours at the Huntsman World Senior Games earlier this month in Utah. It could be a new world record for longest plank held by a woman. But why does she do it?

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William Troop is a supervising editor at All Things Considered.
Jeffrey Pierre is an editor and producer on the Education Desk.
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