so then: who’s a beermiler?
I am: 7:08.
Got serious sh*t from the gang my first time - learned that Heineken cans are too small
I was curious as to what a beer mile was and of course I found at beermile.com. I haven’t been to a beer mile event but I have been to a softball game with a keg at each base.
my favorite rule from the beermile website:
- Competitors who vomit before they finish the race must complete
one penalty lap at the end of the race (immediately after the
completion of their 4th lap). Note: Vomitting more than once
during the race still requires only one penaly lap at the end.
At my last one, in October, I watched a few people do the double. Very impressive. No vomiting, but a bit o’ nakedness.
I am, but a lousy one. At the last one I did, I got beaten (as were quite a few others) by Lisa Bentley doing her first one. As you can imagine, she rarely drinks (she claimed she hadn’t had a beer in 10 years) but she drinks Perrier like there is no tomorrow and of course dealing with the bubbles is what beermiling is all about. Still, it was quite impressive to see her run and prove all the naysayers wrong. She seems to have a habit of that.
Gerard
here in memphis we have had the hurl mile since 96. our rules are a six pack plus four laps. beer can be consumed at any time during the mile. i’ve done seven minutes something. our city record is 5:48 by vic perini. ex pro triathlete of course.
I’m not, but my wife is. #11 Female in the world 8:19 with 4 beers. #401 in the Top 1000. She is more proud of this than her 3 marathon wins and finishing 2 ironmans.
Interesting … I went to the beer mile website and saw the “Kingston Rules” … My first beer mile was as a frosh at the University of Waterloo in 1985 so it looks like we were doing this event prior to the late 80s indicated on their website. Our times were pretty fast since our rules at UW included drinking out of the plastic beer cups from the Beer Store and no penalty for “accidental spillage” on the course. We had the same 10m beer zone and had penalties for spilling any beer while consuming it. Our top man in my days at UW (1985-1990) was Tom Sawyer (really his name) and he did the beer mile in 5:16 with the open cup vs. beer can. Tom was a stellar beer miler and also a pretty good runner and triathlete and judging by his complete dominance of the field, I’m sure that even with the cans instead of the cups he could have blown away the 5:40 posted as the “world record”. My first year I was a pathetic 9:00 + will some heavy accidental spillage on the way but was down to low 7:00s by my final year. I may have to come out of beer mile retirement to see if I can get my name on the list 
you’ll find a few of my performances were recorded as “official” on the top-1000 list, and i, too, will go down in history as winning the 2nd Annual Canatara Beach Beer Mile by running the last 100m naked.
Wow, I could have been a top ten easy in my youth. Alas, I can’t run that fast any more. We had a Beer 100 yards short course in swimming which I was undefeated in college usually between 1:10 to 1:15 range. 4 beers in 100 yards. I wasn’t that fast of 100yd man but I could get the beer down pretty good. G
Lightweights. Back in the '70s, we (at Cornell, and at Penn State aka “Happy Valley”) had the Phi Psi 500, which was a running race with beer drinking interspersed. It was scored as a team event. The race was about 1.5 miles long, and went up and down and back up some of the nasty hills in Ithaca. You run about 100yards, then drink a beer. Run up hill to the first bar, drink a beer. Run down a hill to the next bar, drink a beer. Run across, then down some more to the next bar, drink a beer. Run down the steepest hill in Ithaca (Williams St) to the Chapter House at the bottom, drink a beer. This was where the biggest crowds were, watching the drunks try to get down this hill without falling over. Run up the hill to the finish. I threw up at the third bar, and again coming into the finish line (a friend called it the best “power toss” he’d ever seen).
I did it in '79, where our team made up of track runners took second (those little x-cers could DRINK!). It was the weekend of the Penn Relays, so our best runners/drinkers weren’t there.
Jeez, 25 years ago, and I can still taste the beer, going in and coming back up. Bleah.
Ken Lehner
P.S. A friend of mine did swim sets at Clemson with beer drinking…