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WV trooper pushes for world record for a cause

Herald-Dispatch photo by Sholten Singer Nine-year-old Madi Arthur embraces her father Captain Ron Arthur of the West Virginia State Police as he completes 2,505 push-ups in one-hour and breaks the previous world record on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at Robert’s Running and Walking Shop in Huntington.
Herald-Dispatch photo by Sholten Singer
Nine-year-old Madi Arthur embraces her father Captain Ron Arthur of the West Virginia State Police as he completes 2,505 push-ups in one-hour and breaks the previous world record on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at Robert’s Running and Walking Shop in Huntington.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — In a crowded room of cheering supporters Wednesday afternoon, nobody could care less about the world record than Capt. Ron Arthur, except maybe his 9-year-old daughter, Madi. Whether or not he beat the Guinness World Record for most push-ups in an hour was secondary to the money his feat had raised to send around a dozen children with diabetes to Camp Kno-Koma.

The night before Arthur’s shot at the record, Madi reminded him of what was truly important in the grand scheme of it all.

“She said it best last night: ‘The kids are going to camp anyway. Jesus is more happy about that then he is with the push-ups,” Arthur said, eyes bloodshot and visibly shaken after his attempt at the Guinness World Record for most push-ups in an hour with 2,505 reps.

Initially unsure he could even knock out the 2,221 push-ups required to break the previous record, the 46-year-old West Virginia State Police captain from Winfield made only one promise before he began

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