RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

It's been a week since pan­nist Joshua Re­grel­lo sub­mit­ted his en­try with the Guin­ness World Records for his 31-hour steel­pan marathon. He is now anx­ious­ly await­ing the re­sults.

Al­though he is cel­e­brat­ed by many for his en­durance and ded­i­ca­tion to the na­tion­al in­stru­ment, Re­grel­lo ad­mits he is ner­vous about the fi­nal de­ci­sion.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Re­grel­lo said, “I feel ner­vous be­cause if the re­sults don’t swing my way, it im­pacts every­one who sup­port­ed me.” He added, “Every­where I go, peo­ple are ask­ing about the re­sults, so we’re wait­ing.”

He said the sub­mis­sion process was no easy feat. 

Due to the vol­ume of re­quired doc­u­men­ta­tion, Re­grel­lo said he and his team were un­able to sub­mit every­thing last week on Mon­day as planned.

“It takes hours up­on hours up­on hours to up­load,” he ex­plained. 

Even­tu­al­ly, the com­plete sub­mis­sion was sent last Wednes­day morn­ing, and with Guin­ness typ­i­cal­ly re­spond­ing with­in five busi­ness days, Re­grel­lo said he has been re­fresh­ing his emails, hop­ing for news.

“The last cou­ple of nights, I lit­er­al­ly dreamt about the re­sults. I’m anx­ious to see what hap­pens, but I have no plans to cel­e­brate just yet. In my head, that chap­ter is over. If it hap­pens, it hap­pens, and I will be grate­ful. It’s all in God’s hands right now, so we’re hop­ing for the best," he said.

Re­grel­lo’s steel­pan marathon was a test of phys­i­cal and men­tal en­durance which was cel­e­brat­ed across the coun­try and across po­lit­i­cal, racial and eth­nic di­vides.

A con­stant flow of fans, hosts, and artistes came to­geth­er to sup­port him as he at­tempt­ed the feat go­ing one hour be­yond his ini­tial goal of 30 hours.

He be­gan his per­for­mance at 6:28 am at WACK Ra­dio stu­dios in San Fer­nan­do on De­cem­ber 27 and end­ed with much fan­fare on De­cem­ber 28 as thou­sands of peo­ple cel­e­brat­ed re­gion­al­ly. In the weeks be­fore his fi­nal sub­mis­sion, Re­grel­lo asked the pub­lic to pro­vide him with any footage and pho­tos as some of the fans had blocked the clock dur­ing the last hour.