100 beers/100 miles club

I havent read the whole thread but I don't think the 50/50/50 is impossible by any stretch. This past thursday and friday I did the following:

Thursday 4 PM - 14 Miles

Thursday 11 PM - 7 Miles

Friday 12 AM - 1 Beer

Friday 7 AM - 9 Miles

Friday 3 PM - 12 Miles

Friday before midnight - 12 Beers

So in 32 hours I already had 42/50 miles complete, and 13/50 beers complete. I was just going about my normal business and had not even heard of the 50/50/50 at the time. There was a lot of room to squeeze some more in there too. I went to class on friday, easily could have put down 3 beers and taken a nap instead prior to my afternoon run. Also could have added 2 beers before bed on friday night. This would have given me 18 beers in the first 32 hours. So from there lets say I sleep for 8 hours, get up and put in my last 8 miles, leaving me with 9 hours to drink 32 beers. Obviously going to be difficult, but by no means impossible. If you break those 9 hours out with the following beers per hour, 2 , 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 8, I think it is definitely POSSIBLE. Although, I have no interest in doing it any time soon.

I did a relatively tame version of this. 21st birthday had a beer for breakfast, ran 21 miles, a beer for lunch and then a nutritious 19 beers for dinner after work. I don't remember the last few, but friends - and officers of the law - report that it was glorious.

I have to say that there is no way, even though I am in very good drinking shape that I could do more than that and continue that pace for another 3 days. The 100/100/100.... I am just astounded.

You could drink 32 beers in 9 hours? Are these soft american little half pint/beers or are these proper pints? If it's proper pints I really doubt it.

The triple ton (100/100/100) has been done by a scottish guy called YP, using proper pints. But I doubt he crammed 32 pints into the last 9 hours, you have to go at it hard from the start.

HBT wrote:

YP Thomas, 100 beers, 100 hours, 100 miles on the Isle of Man a long time ago.

It can be done but you will never be the same again...

This is all true, but it should be pointed out that:

- The beer on the Isle of Man does lend itself to this endevour, it's pretty weak (3%?)

- YP now looks about 10 years older than he actually is, I'm sure this stunt must account for at least half of that.

I heard that YP was never the same after doing the triple 100 especially as an athlete. I've seen a few people put away a good 60-70 pints over the isle of Man Festival weekend. One year me and a freind did about 45 pints from the Friday night to midnight Sunday and put in a good 40 mile if you include the Monday morning run. The best way to do it might be 14 miles in the morning and 14 pints from 5pm each night but if i remember someone explaining the rules of the triple to me a pint and a mile have to be run / drank in each of the 100 hours??

I heard that YP was never the same after doing the triple 100 especially as an athlete. I've seen a few people put away a good 60-70 pints over the isle of Man Festival weekend. One year me and a freind did about 45 pints from the Friday night to midnight Sunday and put in a good 40 mile if you include the Monday morning run. The best way to do it might be 14 miles in the morning and 14 pints from 5pm each night but if i remember someone explaining the rules of the triple to me a pint and a mile have to be run / drank in each of the 100 hours??

I admit that I had not envisioned 20 oz pints of guiness when contemplating the 50/50/50, but 12 oz bottles of bud light. Obviously there is a significant difference and I would not be capable of doing the 50/50/50 with 20 oz. pints of anything.

Escargot, it's funny you mention that. For my 21st birthday I ran 21 miles and then chilled all day and drank 21 drinks (shots/beers) that night, between 9 PM and 1 AM. I remember each of the 21 drinks but count on the recollection of my friends, girlfriend and officers of the law to tell me that I proceeded to complete the triple 21 by puking 21 times.

I guess I see the best way to do this is taking the rules of the beer mile and adjusting them to fit the longer format. In my dream scenario you would have one hour to consume one beer and run one mile continue to do this for one hundred hours straight. The first day or two is not going to be much of an issue, it is the third or fourth day that is going to be hardest. Understand, to do it for 100 hours you need to do it for 4 days 4 hours. Let's imagine a normal 3 day weekend F-Su, you start 9 am Friday, go all day Saturday, all day Sunday, call out sick to work Monday and run and drink, call out sick Tuesday and finish by 1 in the afternoon Tuesday afternoon. I have you starting in the morning to get one last night of rest.

I am seriously thinking of trying this either later this summer or between Christmas and New Year's Eve. I have several other friends that are as idiotic as me and are willing to run 100 miles and drink 100 beers over 4 days. Obviously we would do the 50/50/50 by 11am Sunday morning. I wonder if anyone could keep going until 150/150/150 or even go for an ungodly 200/200/200. Even if you sleep 45 minutes at a time (assuming 15 mins for 1 mile and 1 beer) the sleep deprivation would have to get to you sometime.

Why is it that these threads always pop up on Fridays?

Maybe it's obvious.

Who IS Robin Thomas (YP)

Last November some friends and I set out to do 24 beers and 24 miles in 24 hours for my buddy's 24th birthday.

We started at 9:30 AM

Drank 6 beers, ran 8 miles.

Drank another 6 beers before 1:30, ran another 8 miles.

Another 6 beers before 6, did the last 8 miles.

Then we went out and drank the last 6. Of the 5 of us that started, only two of us finished and we had our last beer at 9:00 PM.

So 24/24/11.5.

I don't recall eating very much during the day, I think the beer mostly kept us going. None of us had the foresight to bring a cooler so they got progressively warmer and warmer, which wasn't ideal.

It actually wasn't too hard. We were all feeling fine for our run the next day...

Is it cheating to use a treadmill? If the challenge doesn't require a minimum speed, why not use a treadmill? 4 miles an hour is an easy walking pace and you can drink simultaneously. Watch TV for 4 hours and kill a 12-pack. You have the other 20 hours in a day to make up beers / mileage. Boring as hell, but seems simple.

Come on wrote:

50/50/50 sounds doable. The key is to get the 50 done as part of an ultrarun. You could probably do it in the first 7 hours or so if planned properly. That gives you almost 2 full days to drink 50 beers. Difficult, but not impossible.

I don't think above is the best strategy. If you start at noon; drink two beers and hit a up a 2 hr easy run (~17 miles), get back and rehydrate. Work on putting down about 20 beers from 3 pm to around 3 am; eat throughout this period. Go to sleep. Wake around noon have two beers and and run the hangover off (2hr ~ 17 miles again)) and then go for broke the rest of the day (26 beers). Sleep and wake up the next morning for one last 16 miler; you are done (just finish before 2pm or risk kicking yourself in the nuts).

Does no one notice the one-year gap in posts??

For the 50/50/50

How about this for a schedule.

Start at 12:01, drink 3 beers, run 3 miles, sleep 3 hours.

Then repeat for the next 47 hours.

Eat when absolutely required

Almost Been There wrote:

Last November some friends and I set out to do 24 beers and 24 miles in 24 hours for my buddy's 24th birthday.

We started at 9:30 AM

Drank 6 beers, ran 8 miles.

Drank another 6 beers before 1:30, ran another 8 miles.

Another 6 beers before 6, did the last 8 miles.

Then we went out and drank the last 6. Of the 5 of us that started, only two of us finished and we had our last beer at 9:00 PM.

So 24/24/11.5.

I don't recall eating very much during the day, I think the beer mostly kept us going. None of us had the foresight to bring a cooler so they got progressively warmer and warmer, which wasn't ideal.

It actually wasn't too hard. We were all feeling fine for our run the next day...

We have done the 24,24,24 annually for the past 4 years. It is a good event, and relatively easy if you are not going for speed. Although it is quite different when aiming for a fast time.

Our event record is 6 hours 30 minutes for the 24 miles/24 beers. The majority of the individuals competing on any given year don't finish because they push themselves too hard too early.

I can only imagine trying the 50/50/50 or 100 miles and 100 beers in a week.

Observer of things wrote:

Does no one notice the one-year gap in posts??

This doesn't take away from the allure of the topic.

who is more likely to complete the 100 miles in 1 week + 100 beers in one week:

a) a non-drinker who usually runs

b) a non-runner who usually drinks

strike me wrote:

who is more likely to complete the 100 miles in 1 week + 100 beers in one week:

a) a non-drinker who usually runs

b) a non-runner who usually drinks

When it comes to the beer mile, the answer is clear: the drinker beats the runner. A sprinter (a relatively fit sprinter, but still, a 100/200 guy) beat everybody on our track team one year. For the 100/100, though, it's less clear. My $.02 is that the runner would beat the drinker. To a casual drinker, a seven-day bender isn't totally unfathomable, but to a casual runner, 100 miles in a week is. Of course if the question is someone who NEVER runs versus someone who NEVER drinks, that's totally different.