Just wondering if anyone out there has an effective beermile race strategy. i'll be competing in my first in about a week and would appreciate some advice.
luke, how about a nice tall glass of dump that bitch
Just wondering if anyone out there has an effective beermile race strategy. i'll be competing in my first in about a week and would appreciate some advice.
luke, how about a nice tall glass of dump that bitch
Some hints
Ease up and jog the last 100 before the transition zone. You don't want to be out of breath while trying to suck down a beer.
If you can burp on demand you are golden. Burp before you start running each lap.
If not, get ready for a feeling you may have never experience before where you have carbonation from 3 beers all come up at once and your whole chest and stomach exands and you let out some super burps.
The key really is not to go too fast the first lap and pound their second beer before they have burped. They are ruined and too full for their fourth beer and really slow down getting that one down.
What I found works well is that I pound the beers as fast as I can, then jog the first 100 meters until you let out some good burps. You might as well be making some progress until you burp instead of waiting to burp then run. After you burp thats when you let loose, like the above post, dont go out too hard though. Unlike the above post I wouldn't jog the last 100 coming into the transitions, wasting too much time and its not hard to chug when you are a little out of breath.
Basically, the key for me is burping in the first 100 meters.
I ran my first beer mile a couple years ago. We had about 20 people competing, I was one of 3 people who did not puke. All the people who puked had been drinking a few beers prior to the start of the race. So my advise would be to save your drinking for the race itself. If you burp a lot as you run, you will avoid puking, and maintain your speed.
Depends on where your strengths lie. Being a skinny distance runner I am now a bit of a light weight when it comes to the beer. So I really focused on drinking steadily, using the first 50-100m to make sure it went down okay and then hammering for 300m. I didn't find a need to back off heading into the transition zone as I was taking it easier when I was drinking. Expect each beer to take longer and like the one of the posters above said, don't drink before hand. I went sub 8 on my first try.
In my experience, the better beer drinkers will ALMOST ALWAYS beat the better runners. Hence, the strategy lies in the drinking.
Use a fairly mellow beer, i.e. Pabst, Milwaukee's Best, et al. Drink as quickly as needed, but don't chug the beer too quickly. Go easy in your first 100m, burping if possible. Open up your pace in the last 300m of each lap.
bump...the race is coming up!
Do not drink before the event. When running the event, think of the drinking part as the interval and the running part as the recovery. Also, turn your head when puking so you don't dirty up lane 1. Have fun.