CINCINNATI - Congresswoman Jean Schmidt set a new world record in the marathon this week with a time of twenty-three minutes.

She broke Paula Radcliffe's old mark of 2:15:25 by over an hour and forty-five minutes and took more than an hour and a half off the current men's pace.

Officials used pictures from Schmidt's website to determine her world-record time of 00:23:00. 

The record was the first for the 13th-annual Schmidtville Marathon of Southwestern Ohio. Thousands of Schmidt-izens were on hand for the event.

"She was so fast," Tanya Lake of Batavia said, "no one saw her finish." 

Nathan Noy, an independent challenger in the 2nd district, filed a grievance about the Schmidt results.

"I think her under a mile-a-minute pace speaks for itself," Noy said.

A spokesman for the Schmidt campaign suggested Noy grow some cahunas and cut-and-run his own marathon.