Beer Mile @ D2 Nationals @ Ashland

Beer miles aren't fun,

NMR is the real way to party! (co-ed of course)

EITS,

don't be a pussy is a beer mile to much of a challenge for you? To I won't be in Ashland the night after race day :(

AK-Uknow

I would do a beer mile, but I'm not in very good shape. In my prime, I think I could have broken 5:30, but now I would be closer to 7:30. I wish I could say that it's my beer drinking that's faltered, but it's my running. If you can get enough people I would do it.

hmmmmmm.

NMR

Doo wrote:

Who's all in for a beer mile at Ashland University the night after the championship??? I hear they have an old track that they once ran the national championships at just a block away and I guess we could use that for the beer mile...do we make it an official beer mile or just go for it?? WHO'S WITH ME???!

Are you serious! This is the types of things that give D2 a bad name. It is the week before the biggest race of the season, and all you can think of is a freaking beer mile! What about how well your team does, or how well you do. I bet you would be one of the first to whine about why we don't get respect from D1. It is pricks like you that ruin it for the rest of us in D2.

funny, I didn't know that D2 had a bad name.

Anyway, lighten up, it's not like you have to obsess over the race every second of every day leading up to nats. It's possible to be serious about running and still b.s. about other stuff occasionally. Doesn't matter to me though as I'll be spectating.

Lighten up, Francis!

Back in the day, our motto was "it's only running". These are your salad days, enjoy them! Maybe part of the reason we fail to reach our potential in the USA is that we obsess over details and overthink running? It seems to me that today's athletes have loads of talent but they fritter their energy away over polls, respect, and other trivial shit.

But, what do I know? By all means, do your best NOT to think about beer, girls, midterms, your semester projects, XBOX, or music this week. Lord knows that kind of distraction will F-up your chance at greatness.

Me wrote:

In my prime, I think I could have broken 5:30, but now I would be closer to 7:30.

So what you're saying is that you could smash the world record by 10 seconds, right?

1. Sean Wade 5:40.0 Hamilton, ON

2. Steve Contreres 5:40.2 Amherst, MA NESCAC Championships I

3. Dan Michaluk 5:42.0 Hamilton, ON

4. Dan Michaluk 5:48.0 Kingston, ON 3rd Annual Kingston Spring Beer Mile

5. Dan Michaluk 5:48.4 Kingston, ON Kingston Classic X

6. Dan Michaluk 5:49.0 Kingston, ON Kingston Classic IX

7. Dana Bellows 5:51.0 Amherst, MA NESCAC Championships I

8. Thane Hancock 5:54.7 Amherst, MA ACT&F Championships

9. Mike Vine 5:55.0 Victoria, BC Island Road Racers Christmas Beer Mile

10. Dan Michaluk 5:55.5 Kingston, ON Kingston Classic VIII

You don't know shit about world records. I witnessed three guys from the same DI team all break 5:30 in a race last year in the beer mile.

BisonHurdler wrote:

Me wrote:

In my prime, I think I could have broken 5:30, but now I would be closer to 7:30.

So what you're saying is that you could smash the world record by 10 seconds, right?

1. Sean Wade 5:40.0 Hamilton, ON

2. Steve Contreres 5:40.2 Amherst, MA NESCAC Championships I

3. Dan Michaluk 5:42.0 Hamilton, ON

4. Dan Michaluk 5:48.0 Kingston, ON 3rd Annual Kingston Spring Beer Mile

5. Dan Michaluk 5:48.4 Kingston, ON Kingston Classic X

6. Dan Michaluk 5:49.0 Kingston, ON Kingston Classic IX

7. Dana Bellows 5:51.0 Amherst, MA NESCAC Championships I

8. Thane Hancock 5:54.7 Amherst, MA ACT&F Championships

9. Mike Vine 5:55.0 Victoria, BC Island Road Racers Christmas Beer Mile

10. Dan Michaluk 5:55.5 Kingston, ON Kingston Classic VIII

i don' thinkn there is an actual sanctioned beer mile competition, except maybe some silly races in Canada. eh the actual world record will eternally be disputed because we have no sanctioning body. let's get the BMAA going...Beer Mile Athletic Association, who's with me

Beer mile is tradition at the end of the XC season (I'm sure for many programs). I can't do it in Ashland but the other G'NAC REP will. However, I will do it next year after nats 4 sure! I think its a great idea to do it whoever wants to. Drink a Molson 4 this hoser.

What are your rules for the beer mile? The way we do it is you kill 6 beers in an hour and then line up and race a mile. This year, we are looking at multiple sub- 5 minute performances.

Clearly, we have some people who don't know the official rules. For men, it's 4 beers and 4 laps. Start with the beer (for those of you who are still having trouble grasping thats drink a beer, run a lap, drink a beer, run a lap, drink a beer, run a lap, drink a beer, run a lap). Clock runs the whole time of course. Thus I doubt your team has 3 guys who ran sub 5:30, if you say 15 seconds a beer (not an easy feat when you consider picking it up, opening it and chugging, no wide mouth cans or shot gunning), thats a sub 4:30 mile with beer in your stomach.

Girls only drink 3 beers, they start out with a lap before drinking so its a good deal easier for them.

No, I said in my prime for a 5:30. It wouldn't have been that hard with a little training. I can chug as fast as it will pour. I'm just not in 3:47-4:05 shape now. Hell, I'm a good 10 years older, but I can handle more beer.

And you guys wonder why you are stuck in a shitty ass D2 program...

EMU. Enough said.

You're still a big dork that I should kill...

A_Goofy_Runner knows his Beer Mile rules. Except the way my team does it, we dont specify how much you need to drink before the racing begins...you just need to be plowed.

Oh for jfhdbfhsbjsa or whatever the hell your name is, I chose to be in a DII program over other D1 programs and I dont regret my decision at all. This is college--the best 4-5+ years of your life. And especially right after the season is finished, its great to do a lot of stupid crazy sheit! Do what you want, but the season is not over until you finish the Beer Mile.

actually, the probably don't. (dipshit)