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It wasn't the physical pain. It wasn't the sleep deprivation. It was something different that finally got Aurora's George Hood to climb off his stationary bike and not get back on Monday morning.

"I am bored," Hood, 50, told his trainer, Preston Bokos, during the 177th - and final - hour of his Guinness World Record-breaking ride at the Fry Family YMCA in Naperville.

"I'm tired of always having to do things on this bike," he said. "I've literally been strapped to this bike for eight days."

The former U.S. DEA agent completed his epic ride at 7:30 a.m., after surpassing the record almost two hours before. A Guinness adjudicator, Danny Girton Jr., was on-site to officially notify Hood that ...

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