• rojo
      co-founder
      • 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/7/2016 4:16PM
      • rojo
        co-founder
      • http://www.insidethegames.biz/...e-marathon

        While I think the beer mile craze has come and gone, it might be interesting one year if a AWMM handed all of the runners 30 minutes before the start 2 beers and said, "Drink these now."

        I'd hope 3 hours would have no impact on them.
    • drunk runners the real ones
      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/7/2016 4:30PM - in reply to rojo
      • drunk runners the real ones
      • “We sang and ate and laughed and ate until late in the evening.â€
        They obviously carboloaded the night before. Presumably the beers served as hair of the dog. Which was followed up by a bloody mary 3 hours later.
    • tvo it
      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/7/2016 4:44PM - in reply to rojo
      • tvo it
      • I had a couple short beers finishing up Shamrock a couple weeks ago. Yummy.
    • vxzc
      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/7/2016 4:47PM - in reply to rojo
      • vxzc
      • Only two? And someone said 1950s was a good time to live in.
    • Mr. Obvious
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      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/7/2016 4:54PM - in reply to tvo it
      • Mr. Obvious
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      • I had a beer at mile 4 of Shamrock one year. Still my PR
    • Clerk
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      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/7/2016 5:20PM - in reply to Mr. Obvious
      • Clerk
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      • These guys were low octane. Belladonna, aka deadly nightshade, morphine, cocaine, ether, strychnine (a pesticide used to kill birds and rodents), were all pretty regular.

        (In 1879)
        French racers preferred mixtures on a caffeine bases, the Belgians preferred sugar cubes dipped in ether, and others used alcohol-containing cordials, while the sprinters specialized in the use of nitroglycerine (Prokop, 1970: 45).
        The cyclists of the day also used coffee 'spiked' with caffeine; and as the race progressed, they would add increasing doses of cocaine and strychnine (Donohoe & Johnson, 1986), as strychnine taken at low doses has a stimulant effect, while at higher doses it is poisonous....
        The first fatality attributed to doping was reported in 1886: Arthur Linton, an English cyclist, is said by some to have overdosed on 'tri-methyl', probably a compound containing either caffeine or ether...
        Another popular sport during that period in both the United States and England was the professional sport of pedestrianism. ... By their very nature, stimulants lent themselves to use in this sport. Trainers employed a variety of concoctions to keep their athlete going. These included milk-punch champagne and brandy, as well as belladonna, strychnine, and 'morphine in hot drops' (Osier & Dodd, 1979: 107).
        http://library.la84.org/Sports...S2401e.pdf
    • longjack
      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/8/2016 2:00PM - in reply to rojo
      • longjack
      • rojo wrote:
        http://www.insidethegames.biz/...e-marathon

        While I think the beer mile craze has come and gone, it might be interesting one year if a AWMM handed all of the runners 30 minutes before the start 2 beers and said, "Drink these now."

        I'd hope 3 hours would have no impact on them.
        those guys took all kinds of things, everything. coke, opium, strychnine, booze, ammonia,

        those OG were a complete joke at all levels. check it out. 326 marathon.
        60 year old women run faster. read this BS. the hills tear a man to shreds, etc. etc.

        Had the race been run under current rules, Hicks would also have been disqualified: his assistants had given him a dose of 1/60 of a grain (roughly 1 mg) of strychnine[3] and some brandy (Remy Martin) because he was flagging badly during the race; the first dose of strychnine did not revive him for long, so he was given another. As a result, he collapsed after crossing the finishing line. Another dose might have been fatal. Strychnine is now forbidden for athletes.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hicks_(athlete)

        He began hallucinating, believing that the finish line was still 20 miles away. In the last mile he begged for something to eat. Then he begged to lie down. He was given more brandy but refused tea. He swallowed two more egg whites. He walked up the first of the last two hills, and then jogged down on the incline. Swinging into the stadium, he tried to run but was reduced to a graceless shuffle. His trainers carried him over the line, holding him aloft while his feet moved back and forth, and he was declared the winner.

        It took four doctors and one hour for Hicks to feel well enough just to leave the grounds. He had lost eight pounds during the course of the race, and declared, “Never in my life have I run such a touch course. The terrific hills simply tear a man to pieces.†Hicks and Lorz would meet again at the Boston Marathon the following year, which Lorz won without the aid of anything but his legs.

        http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...47/?no-ist
    • Victorious88
      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/8/2016 4:01PM - in reply to Clerk
      • Victorious88
      • Clerk wrote:
        These guys were low octane. Belladonna, aka deadly nightshade, morphine, cocaine, ether, strychnine (a pesticide used to kill birds and rodents), were all pretty regular.

        (In 1879)
        French racers preferred mixtures on a caffeine bases, the Belgians preferred sugar cubes dipped in ether, and others used alcohol-containing cordials, while the sprinters specialized in the use of nitroglycerine (Prokop, 1970: 45).
        The cyclists of the day also used coffee 'spiked' with caffeine; and as the race progressed, they would add increasing doses of cocaine and strychnine (Donohoe & Johnson, 1986), as strychnine taken at low doses has a stimulant effect, while at higher doses it is poisonous....
        The first fatality attributed to doping was reported in 1886: Arthur Linton, an English cyclist, is said by some to have overdosed on 'tri-methyl', probably a compound containing either caffeine or ether...
        Another popular sport during that period in both the United States and England was the professional sport of pedestrianism. ... By their very nature, stimulants lent themselves to use in this sport. Trainers employed a variety of concoctions to keep their athlete going. These included milk-punch champagne and brandy, as well as belladonna, strychnine, and 'morphine in hot drops' (Osier & Dodd, 1979: 107).
        http://library.la84.org/Sports...S2401e.pdf
        We should go back and test their samples, maybe we can get some Americans upgraded to the medal stand. #cleansport
    • Coffeeeee
      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/8/2016 4:02PM - in reply to rojo
      • Coffeeeee
      • Ran my 5k road pr 15:30ish on a July forth 5k honest course after 2-3 beers and dinner... About 3 hours before
    • what did they not know
      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/8/2016 10:21PM - in reply to rojo
      • what did they not know
      • holy f*ck 2:11 800 and 4:33 1500?!?! Where can I find a time machine
    • longjack
      • RE: 120 years ago at first Olympic marathon, all of the runners were given two beers 3 hours before race time 4/9/2016 11:26AM - in reply to what did they not know
      • longjack
      • what did they not know wrote:
        holy f*ck 2:11 800 and 4:33 1500?!?! Where can I find a time machine
        a moronic track meet to be sure. good for best time on the worst high school team in america.