Dude Crushes Beer Mile in Record Time

[bluedigger]

Move over, Roger Bannister. Bannister ran the first sub-4-minute mile in 1954, but another man may have just done something even greater.

James Nielsen recorded video of himself running what he says is the first sub-5-minute beer mile ever run. What is a beer mile, you ask? I was introduced to the phenomenon while attending an undisclosed NESCAC school in a mill town in Maine. The basic premise is that you run a mile (four laps) around a track, chugging a beer before each lap. Runners are slowed by the time it takes to drink the beer, the alcohol sloshing around as he or she moves, and the inevitable inebriation that comes quickly.

http://www.boston.com/sports/other/2014/04/30/dude-crushes-the-beer-mile-record-time/f66YZ3CCfyc4SWzSNReaNL/story.html

video of the event at link

[joeybee12]

1. I assume that's you...

And you're patting yourself on the back with this thread!

[bluedigger]

2. Back in the day, jb, back in the day...

[joeybee12]

3. Sometimes I think it was a different person than myself doing stuff

like that that took so much energy...can't be me...I have none left!

[frylock]

4. beer gives you energy!

[joeybee12]

5. ...energy that you THINK you have!

[hughee99]

6. I wonder what the fastest "meth-mile" is. n/t

[wilt the stilt]

7. we do have an example in cycling

- no one ever took PED's in cycling

Thomas "Tom" or "Tommy" Simpson (30 November 1937 – 13 July 1967) was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road cycling as a teenager before taking up track cycling, specialising in pursuit races. He won a bronze medal for track cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics and a silver at the 1958 Commonwealth Games.

In 1959 at age 21, Simpson was signed by the French professional road-racing team St. Raphaël-Géminiani. He advanced to their first team (Rapha-Gitane-Dunlop) the following year, and won the 1961 Tour of Flanders. Simpson then joined Gitane-Leroux-Dunlop; in the 1962 Tour de France he became the first British rider to wear the yellow jersey, finishing sixth overall.

In 1963 Simpson moved to Peugeot-BP-Englebert, winning Bordeaux–Paris that year and Milan – San Remo in 1964. In 1965 he became Britain's first world road race champion and won the Giro di Lombardia; this made him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, the first cyclist to win the award. Injuries hampered much of Simpson's 1966 season. He won two stages of the 1967 Vuelta a España before taking the general classification of Paris–Nice that year.

During the 13th stage of the 1967 Tour de France, Simpson collapsed and died during the ascent of Mont Ventoux. He was 29 years old. The post-mortem examination found that he had mixed amphetamines and alcohol; this diuretic combination proved fatal when combined with the heat, the hard climb of the Ventoux and a stomach complaint. A memorial near where he died has become a place of pilgrimage for many cyclists. Simpson was known to have taken performance-enhancing drugs during his career, when no doping controls existed. Despite this, he is held in high esteem by many cyclists for his character and will to win.