Awake for eleven days

Not the record now, but did break the previous at the time.

By the fourth day, the sand-clawed demons of sleep were scraping at the back of his eyeballs. He suddenly and inexplicably hallucinated that he was Paul Lowe, a large black football player for the San Diego Chargers. Gardner, in reality, was white, seventeen years old, and 130 pounds soaking wet.

The last record noted was made in 1977 -- 449 hours, some rocking chair marathon.