Beer Mile Giveth, Beer Mile Taketh Away From Chugging Champ
The last time I drank on the run was around Spring ’05 & it may have involved a Hurricane 40oz & a 1AM incident at an Indiana, PA Sheetz. From what I recall, it’s not easy… There’s a lot of internal sloshing & increased difficultly when it comes to not bouncing your face off a curb.
Minus the Sheetz part, Canadian Corey Bellemore has the chug-run combo down to a fine art. He’s a star in the land of ‘Beer Miles’ and last week he smashed a world record with his 4:24.44 time, only to have it all rescinded. What disqualified him? Flying Monkeys. 0.5 ounces of Flying Monkeys to be exact.
A typical beer mile consists of 4 laps on a 400 meter track with a beer consumed in a ‘transition zone’ for each lap. If you puke, you have to do an extra penalty lap. The beer has to be a 12 ounce can or bottle that is 5% ABV or higher & you can’t leave any more than 4.0 ounces behind. Bellemore had a total of 4.5 ounces left in his bottles so he was out.
He wasn’t the only one. Via Runner’s World:
At first, it looked like legendary beer miler Corey Bellemore had smashed his own previous world record of 4:33 by nine seconds (both insane times, if you think about it), according to the official race results at Beermile.com. But when race officials measured the remaining liquid in the cans and bottles of the 20 competitors, they found that three runners, including Bellemore, had more than the permitted amount left over. A fourth runner was disqualified for an unspecified bottle violation.
The reshuffle meant British runner Dale Clutterbuck was the World Classic’s official winner with a time of 4:50. The performance wasn’t enough to beat his personal best and fourth-best in the world time of 4:47, according to Beermile.com, but Clutterbuck was the only runner to legally finish under five minutes.
The World Classic was held at an unnamed track in Vancouver, Canada. Beer mile races are known for their secrecy to avoid being prosecuted for violating open container laws, and are often organized clandestinely, with runners knowing where they’ll be only days before the race.
Britain’s Dale Clutterbuck came out on top in a clusterf*ck of leftover ounces in a wild race. Congrats to him as he celebrates his first world championship in booze-running. In case you’re thinking of trying it out yourself here’s the most popular beers to sip on the go from beermile.com stats:
The world’s highest beer mile took place last year in Bazzar, Nepal at 2.14 miles above sea level and there’s other variations like the ’30-30-30′ (30 beers, 30 miles, 30 hours). I’d like to think I could complete the 30-30-30 but then I watched Barstool’s regular beer mile & decided I’ll leave it to the pros.