i have been debating this topic. i know it sounds very hard but so did the 4min barrier before the 1950s. Do you think it could ever be possible if emphasis was heavy on this event. Lets say it became an olympic event; could it ever happen??
i have been debating this topic. i know it sounds very hard but so did the 4min barrier before the 1950s. Do you think it could ever be possible if emphasis was heavy on this event. Lets say it became an olympic event; could it ever happen??
never ever ever.
nobody\'s running four 54.9\'s followed by 5 seconds to drink a beer x4
WR is 5.04 no? Pints not bottles
No way. The sub 4 mile seemed impossible, but the world record was never over 5 minutes.
I agree, simply impossible. Have you run a beer mile? Absolutely miserable.
I once saw a guy run a 4:59 beer mile but it was cans of beer poured into those red disosable cups instead of pints or bottles so we couldn't claim it as a world record.
It won't even happen in an eggnog mile.
Not a chance in hell man. Not a chance in hell. First things first you have to eliminate everyone who coulden't run a sub-4 to begin with. Then, they have to like beer. THEN, they have to have the stomach capacity to not spew everywhere. THEN they have to burp properly. Etc...
MAYBE it would be possible if the runners were allowed to shotgun them and take the beer on the run. Then again, I don't think most fast runners are ever good beer milers. Apperently, Craigg got his ass handed to him in Arkansas with his 9:xx or whatever. Lincoln, or so the story goes, was a beast though.
but thats my point! i know it is improbable to have such a rare breed of person but if this became a major event, or lets even say the entire population of the world tried for it, dont you think someone could handle 4x50sec 400s with a 10second drinking period. if you could train yourself to rest while drinking it might be possible.
do not get me wrong, i dont think it will ever happen im simply asking everyone's opinion on whether or not it could be somewhat feesable. it would require quite the runner and quite the drinker.
what kind of features would you need to do this?
what would the splits have to look like?
lets break this down physiologically and see how fast we think anyone could do it.
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but thats my point! i know it is improbable to have such a rare breed of person but if this became a major event, or lets even say the entire population of the world tried for it, dont you think someone could handle 4x50sec 400s with a 10second drinking period. if you could train yourself to rest while drinking it might be possible.
lets break this down physiologically and see how fast we think anyone could do it.
Yeah, but the problem is running the 400s at the end with that much beer in your gut, how could anyone actually pull that off?
no absolutely not. think about a 4 X 400 workout 10 seconds rest where you can only breath through your nose (oh yea and you have to drink 4 beers. Ive read rick wuhlhuter could do 3x49 sec with 45 sec rest about the same time he broke the world record in the 600. You want someone to add a 400 cut the rest buy 35 seconds (they can only breath through their nose and add 4 beers worth of alcohol and liquid to their body?
A sub-4 beermile is still a sub-4 mile. The WR is only 3:43...that leaves 17 seconds for four beers + Illness associated. No chance in hell.
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A Beermile World Champion would have to possess a number of qualities that most runners and drinkers have to only an exclusive degree. Some people have the drinking down. Others have the running aspect under control. Few are able to balance the two.
For example, your typical borderline alcoholic frat boy (6'1, 170lbs) could probably handle four Bud Lights (12 oz. can) in 25-55 seconds so long as they were downed back to back. This is providing that his stomach was empty, he had no problems in consuming large amounts of liquid, and he could handle burping enough to keep room.
An older more accomplished (and fatter) drinker could probably do the same in 20 - 40 seconds. A few years ago we has a milk chug competition and the sponsors dad (and old farmer) completely owned everyone. Only runner made it without throwing up.
Fittingly, the PERFECT beer mile chugger would have to be able to go toe-to-toe with someone with a massive stomach and an intense love of alcohol. No light frame would do. The drinker would have to have a medium to large frame but enough efficiency, strength, and so forth to run fast. In short they'd probably have to be a bigger guy than your 5'8 avg. miler.
Let's assume then that they'd be about 6ft. to 6'3. If not, they would need a large frame. They probably wouldn't be able to match the raw drinker but could hit around 35 seconds when drinking four straight beers. This would include squeezing, burping, etc... That puts their raw time at 35 seconds and just over 8.25 seconds per beer.
Running wise, this would give the ideal beer miler a lap to burp and clear out air for the next beer. Of course, this part would be equally important and of all the people with the correct size frame, only the fastest (the anomalies) could hope to be good enough. Their frame size would probably be balance them as a mix between a runner with raw speed and a smoothe stride with someone stronger. Maybe, an Alan Webb type only a little taller? Or one of those stronger looking hill running types that still have passable quickness?
Their speed would have to be moderate for a high end miler given their physical limitations. Let's assume that the fastest one could get out of this group was a 3:56 mile. The speed is there, the base speed training is there. Etc... That's 59 seconds per lap.
Now we are getting somewhere.
Extensive time and effort would have to be made to add workouts in to eating large amounts of food and/or liquid. The runner would have to learn to suppress their gag reflexes almost instinctively. Of course, this still would have an effect on anyone, but it could be lessened.
At 59 seconds per lap a beer miler would come though like this:
59 1st lap, + 1st beer 8.25 seconds + 1.25 seconds to pick up beer, open it, and take off while throwing the beer as they left before the exchange zone. This leaves a 68.5 lap.
Considering this takes into account fatigue, suppression of the stomach, etc... they might be able to pace that out.
This leaves us with a time of 4:34.
There is your Beer Mile World Record.
lets be honest, it aint gonna happen
you're probably right. but how close could anyone come. Is a sub 5 even possible? does anyone else think that a 434 is doable?
We have a guy on the board right now who could do it. A 4:30 mile and four seconds to chug the beer. If he wore his Brooks Beast he wouldn't even get HEMATTURIA.
yeah you would need a talent on par with ElG and it would have to be a funnel affair, while jogging.
Mottram is pretty bad ass. I bet he could do it, but it would have to be fosters. He's tall too.
Motteram...
He'd be nails if he could suppress his gag reflex.
Wow, that sounded bad.