100 beers/100 miles club

be prepared to sleep, a lot. the only real runs you can plan are the first day or two, then you're either running or wasted and falling asleep and run whenever you get up. My friend who did it front loaded the mileage and back loaded the drinking. Worked well for him. He hit 100 miles with a day to spare and needed about 20 beers for the final 24 hours and he nailed it. Best of luck!

I did not know there was a club for something that I already do on a weekly basis ?

The Century Club is not easy to gain admittance to. I agree with the earlier poster. get your 100 miles done in the first 5 days or so. Break the mileage up into several smaller runs to make it easier on the body.

Chimpy wrote:

I did not know there was a club for something that I already do on a weekly basis ?

haha that's a definite Dwight Schrute quote to be.

I had a similar conversation with Rojo regarding something exceedingly more difficult modeled after Dean Karnazes' 50 in 50 in 50. The ideas was to run 50 miles in 50 hours and consume 50 beers during that time. I feel like it is a possiblity even for me (an out of shape college student).

My idea on how to do it is to just go out right at the first hour and jog 10 miles easy. Then come home and have 4-5 beers and hydrate before bed. Next, sleep in for 8 hours and jog about 2 miles to the track. Next, have your friends make a day out of the thing and bring a barbeque and beers to the track, where you'll basically hang out all day and eat and drink and run around. You can run like 12-13 minute pace for this and just lay around and run a mile every so often. Since your friends are around, you can chill out and drink beers while you do this. I figure over 8 hours, 12 beers are a possibility. If running 2-2.5 miles per hour for 8 hours, you've gotten another 20 miles out of the way.

Here are the scorecards so far:

Hours: ~20

Miles: 32

Beers: 17

Next, you'll want to take a nap for a few hours as you'll be dead. Say 4 or so. It should be night time now, so you'll be sore as shit and in need of some down time. You may be permitted to switch to something like Woodchuck or Captain Morgan's Matava Blue Berry and Kiwi Wine Cooler at this point if beer becomes too nasty as this point. The want to drink these great beverages may be great, but it is up to you to abstain until you go out and run/ hobble 2 more miles just for kicks. Now it is time to drink.

You'll pregame with your wine cooler of choice (6-7) and then it is off to the bar. Here, you'll be a mess from all of the previous drinking so it is up to your friends to feed you beers like it's your job. Expect to black out hard and go through another 6-8.

Go to sleep for 10 hours and attempt to remember where you were the night before the next morning.

Here's the scorecard:

Hours: ~40

Miles: 34

Beers: 32

Now you wake up and realize "holy shit I'm really far behind." It is now crunch time. Go out and hobble your way through the worst 9 miles of your life before waiting / sleeping 5 hours and going out for your last 7 (again even worse than the last run). Drink 2 beers in between runs.

You have now completed all 50 miles of your journey and it is time to man up and drink your last 16 beers in your remaining 3 1/2 hours or so. This can be done by pushing hard through those first 6 or so and then puking them up as a true iron stomach would.

You will now have ample room and 2 1/2 hours to put down 10 beers. You will be on the verge of death yes, but it is for the greater good. You may just drink your ass off and finish early, or have 5 minutes left with 3 beers to go and just have to rally like never before. Either way, that is how to complete the ultimate 50 in 50 drinking 50

The 50 in 50 in 50 sounds impossible. Not enough time to sleep. Lets steer the conversation back to the 100 and 100.

you need to talk to the great YP - where are you Robin ?

100 miles, 100 pints, 100 hours at the Isle of Man running 'festival', oft talked about rairly (or even never) repeated.

Not for the faint hearted or anyone who wants a liver in their later years.

Sizzlechest wrote:

The 50 in 50 in 50 sounds impossible. Not enough time to sleep. Lets steer the conversation back to the 100 and 100.

That's what they told Dean. You just don't have enough guts. Back to the 50 in 50 in 50.

Rarely do I feel like I am completely out of my league on this message board but if anyone here can actually do this 100/100 or 50/50/50, they have ability beyond my imagination and are completely disgusting.

the413miler wrote:

Rarely do I feel like I am completely out of my league on this message board but if anyone here can actually do this 100/100 or 50/50/50, they have ability beyond my imagination and are completely disgusting.

Hey man, I know the same guy that Giddy is refering to. 100/100 is possible, I've seen it done.

I have never, I repeat never, been more impressed with the quality of the LetsRun message board than after reading this thread.

This makes a beer mile seem like the work of first-graders.

I don't think there is a clearly recognized standard for the 100/100 club like there is for the beer mile. So if you do this you can set the standard for future attempts if you document it well. (eg. how slow can the miles be, what kind of beer etc.)

That being said it would be nice to see someone do it by evenly distributing out the beers and the mileage over the entire week. I know people who can do a 100 miles in one day then drink 100 beers the rest of the week. This would not be optimal for a record in my opinion.

Good luck, keep us posted.

But there is some signifigant training that would be involved to even run 100 miles in a day. Shit, I've run a marathon, and I'm hurting like hell for 3 or 4 days after, so it's not like running a 100 miles on the first day would essentially be cheeting.

Secondly, if you're tolerance sucked, chugging 15 beers a day isn't easy. When my friends and I came up with the idea (i'm sure we weren't the only ones), we were on spring break, on a run talking about how it would be insane to run a 100 mile week durring spring break with all the booze.

Any way you put it 100/100 isn't that easy, no matter how you split the week up.

First of all, Giddy, lets not take credit for an original idea of yours for the 100/100... this has been around since before you were born and maybe you first heard about it drunk and it came back to you, but it wasn't your idea.

I agree the 50/50/50 is impossible... the outline above is absurd and!!! AND!!! What kind of a program or club allows you to substitute Wine Coolers (WINE COOLERS) for beer?!?! That's an outrage.

100/100 is doable, though difficult. I would say impossible if you had to work a 40 hour week, but with no work and plenty of sleep.... very doable. Hope you're in good shape to start, you won't be at the end. To me it's like competing in an ultra, you need lots of training to complete it and you won't be the same after it. That may be a touch overdramatic, you'll just need some recovery time.

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...

Sizzlechest wrote:

The 50 in 50 in 50 sounds impossible. Not enough time to sleep. Lets steer the conversation back to the 100 and 100.

Uh, he gives you 27 hours to sleep over a 2 day period.

be real wrote:

First of all, Giddy, lets not take credit for an original idea of yours for the 100/100... this has been around since before you were born and maybe you first heard about it drunk and it came back to you, but it wasn't your idea.

Read my statement right...

When my friends and I came up with the idea (i'm sure we weren't the only ones)

It was the idea to try it, not the idea itself.

My original plans was to try to follow a daily schedule of 10 miles in the morning followed by 5 beers and then 5 miles in the late afternoon followed by a long, slow 10 beers with lots of spleep in between. My beer tolerance is good, I usually drink sierra or arrogant bastard, so slipping in coors light or tacate will seem like a water. But after this thread, front-loading the mileage may not be a bad idea.

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.

Front loading is probably a good idea. anything to keep from falling behind. If you start to feel like death warmed over after 3 days you can probably cut back the run on one day in return for some extra rest, then make it up later in the week. But if you fall behind in the beer category you may have to drink 15-20 beers on one day to make up for it.