HERE IS WANJIRU HAVING A BEER AFTER THE RACE WITH HIS COACH......UNBELIEVABLE!

Michael "clean" Johnson wrote:

doug burke wrote:

former usc student, he won boston in 2:09.27, he ounce said after a hard workout sometimes he could not eat so he would have 10-12 beers instead.

now Doug either you are not a whipper snapper or you are unlike most on letsrun and know how to use google. I did not know h ewent to usc??? Are you sure on that part?

i think i read he drank lots of beer instead of a meal after a hard workout in the bokk running with the legends.

yes he went to usc BEFORE he became a great runner, i am not sure he was even on the track and cross country teams, but he is listed as a former usc student in the track media guide. a friend told me he was not on the usc teams, but he is in the track media guide for what he accomplished after graduating from usc.

If the man wants a beer after he wins his country's first marathon Olympic gold, give the man a beer!

I'm guessing the beer companies are getting set for endorsement deals....

maybe it was a Tusker lager?

I stopped reading the article when the author wrote that the previous OR holder was "Carlos Lopez from Spain".

Suitcase of Courage wrote:

Wow, someone can drink a beer and no undo years of fitness?!

Even more amazing was Usain Bolt eating Chicken McNuggets before an Olympic race. The puritanical "health" food scolds of letsrun.com would have you believe that food from McDonald's is poison and if it doesn't give you a heart-attack will surely render you incapable of achieving your athletic potential. So here we have Bolt loading up on McD's before a sprint final and Tyson Gay taking the family to McD's after the World Champs. The moral is that you shouldn't substitute propoganda from ridiculous movies (Supersize Me) for your own fact-based, well reasoned opinion.

LOL so true... where are those running raw/vegan dudes now?

OMG!!!! Next he'll be seen dancing, cavorting with women, or--shudder--having a toke or a poke. The fiend!!!!

He has added over 100 friends on Facebook just today, I think he is enjoying this moment quite a bit.

There is a famous race, I believe it was in the Olympics where the winner relaxed the night Before that is, with beer, this is a real famous story. I have it in some book.

As for beers, I haven't had Tusker (Kenyan), which is somewhat available in the US, but Harrar and other Ethiopian beers are rather good. Tusker is a bit wellknown.

QUICKLY -- email that photo to WADA. Alcohol is a prohibited substance on the WADA list (but only in some sports and thankfully not in T&F).

Can you imagine what would happen to T&F if WADA put alchol on the out-of-competition banned substances list for T&F???

Who would stay dry to compete once every 4 years in the Olympics?

beersnob: Quality American beer is an oxymoron. What he should be drinking is a fine Alexander Keiths. Although I won't disagree with you about guiness.

it is no big deal for wanjiru to have beer, i like it after a race, it refreshes, you feel back, you celebrate!!!

Tusker, eh? I'll look into that. Reminds me of the story about, I think it was, General Grant got a report that one of his field generals --a successful one--was drinking whiskey all day long. The general responded with a message to find out what brand of whiskey, and to send a barrell to all his general staff.

asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf wrote:

beersnob: Quality American beer is an oxymoron. What he should be drinking is a fine Alexander Keiths. Although I won't disagree with you about guiness.

there are plenty of decent american beers. but alexander keiths? their beer is terribly reviewed by many people. their top beer is rated only 25% on ratebeer.com and their light beer is 3%! quit trying to look like a beer snob!

BEER IS LOADED WITH CALIORIES!

Hear, hear! There are not only "plenty of decent" American beers, there are many many outstanding beers. Have been for several decades, especially since the microbrewery "revolution" and general upgrading of American tste for fine suds. The list is too long to spend time on, but we who have been quaffers of Sierra Nevada Ale, Red Hook--or Hawk, Anchor Steam, and so on.... lord the strange and wonderful names one sees in west coats products range from the bizarre to the homely, but rest assured, their have been independent brew out their that will knock the warts off a hog, grow hair on a salamander, and put a smile on the face of the worst of us ogres. And the stuff is good!

Warm Guiness is a good traditional beverage, but try a Poison Toad Porter for something different.

Wither Man wrote:

The only thing "unbelievable" is that he settled for whatever that crap is he's drinking...

O'Doul's

It's a good thing you weren't around when Walker, Dixon, etc ran. Dixon had some great quote about runnign like an animal and drinking lots of beer.

Bedford has many stories about running hard and getting trashed. Not that you have to drink a lot of beer to be a runner, but the nerd-alert is up! Lighten up nad have some fun. It is a myth that you have to live like a monk to be a great distance runner.

Miles, miles, miles and relax.

o.O wrote:

BEER IS LOADED WITH CALIORIES!

Exactly! Carb replacement! :)

Actually, why wait until AFTER a race to drink beer. In Philly, there's a beer stop (unofficial, I should mention) that runners pass twice.